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Please be aware that Web Server and Website Management Tools like Plesk and others do not work well together with our packaged solution. We strongly recommend to install OpenProject CE on a clean install.
OpenProject installation via package manager
The installation of the OpenProject software can be done manually or via official software-packages build by the packager.io service. Using these software packages is highly recommended to reduce the pain of installation and configuration errors. Besides the installation via package manager is done via configuration wizard which is very helpful to get everything up and running right from the beginning.
Stack used by packager.io packages
- Unicorn (application server) – this component hosts the actual application. Depending on the settings chosen, there are at least two unicorn processes running in parallel on the app server machine.
- Apache 2 (web server) – this component provides the external interface, handles SSL termination (if SSL is used) and distributes/forwards web requests to the unicorn processes.
- MySQL (database management system) – this component is used to store and retrieve data. Ruby 2.1.3 (MRI) and necessary libraries to run the OpenProject source code.
Run Installation
The installation procedure assumes the following prerequisites to be met:
- A server running one of the following Linux distributions:
| Distribution (64 bits only) | Identifier | init system |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty | ubuntu-14.04 | upstart |
| Debian 8 Jessie | debian-8 | systemd |
| Debian 7 Wheezy | debiani-7 | sysvinit |
| CentOS/RHEL 7.x | centos-7 | systemd |
| CentOS/RHEL 6.x | centos-6 | upstart |
| Fedora 20 | fedora-20 | sysvinit |
| Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 | sles-12 | sysvinit |
- A mail server that is accessible via SMTP that can be used for sending notification emails. OpenProject supports authentication, yet does not provide support for SMTP via SSL/TLS.
If you intend to use SSL for OpenProject:
- A valid SSL certifificate along with the private key file. The files must not be protected by a pass phrase.
- Note that as the installation procedure will automatically create a separate user to run OpenProject as, it is not necessary to create such a user beforehand.
The following steps have to be performed to initiate the actual installation of OpenProject via package manager. Note that all commands should either be run as root or should be prepended by sudo otherwise (typically depending what linux distribution is used).
Debian 7 Wheezy
# install https support
apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo wget -qO - https://deb.packager.io/key | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://deb.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject wheezy stable/4.2" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openproject.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openproject
Debian 8 Jessie
# install https support
apt-get install apt-transport-https
wget -qO - https://deb.packager.io/key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://deb.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject jessie stable/4.2" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openproject.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openproject
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty
wget -qO - https://deb.packager.io/key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://deb.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject trusty stable/4.2" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openproject.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openproject
Fedora 20
sudo rpm --import https://rpm.packager.io/key
echo "[openproject]
name=Repository for opf/openproject application.
baseurl=https://rpm.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject/fedora20/stable/4.2
enabled=1" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/openproject.repo
sudo yum install openproject
CentOS / RHEL 6.x
sudo rpm --import https://rpm.packager.io/key
echo "[openproject]
name=Repository for opf/openproject application.
baseurl=https://rpm.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject/centos6/stable/4.2
enabled=1" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/openproject.repo
sudo yum install openproject
CentOS / RHEL 7.x
sudo rpm --import https://rpm.packager.io/key
echo "[openproject]
name=Repository for opf/openproject application.
baseurl=https://rpm.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject/centos7/stable/4.2
enabled=1" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/openproject.repo
sudo yum install openproject
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12
sudo rpm --import https://rpm.packager.io/key
sudo zypper addrepo "https://rpm.packager.io/gh/opf/openproject/sles12/stable/4.2" "openproject"
sudo zypper install openproject
Post-Install Configuration
After the installation of the OpenProject package the system has to be configured to use this package and operate the OpenProject application. Therefore the package includes aconfiguration wizard which can be started using the following command.
openproject configure
Side note: The installer supports the configuration of necessary SSL connections too. If required the corresponding SSL certificates (incl. keys) have to be placed on the machine. OpenProject command line tool The openproject package comes with a command line tool to help manage important configuration settings. To see all possible command options of this tool type sudo openproject.
admin@openproject-demo:~# sudo openproject
Usage:
openproject run COMMAND [options]
openproject scale TYPE=NUM
openproject logs [--tail|-n NUMBER]
openproject config:get VAR
openproject config:set VAR=VALUE
openproject reconfigure
Set configuration options
During the installation process a lot of settings were set to get the application runnings. But if you need to set some advanced options or you want to change some settings which were set during the installation via the installation wizard you can use config:set option. Please be aware that you have to stop and restart the application server so that the new configuration is loaded. This can be done using the service openproject [start|stop] command. See which settings can be set and an example for setting the session store below.
DATABASE_URL=mysql2://openproject:9ScapYA1MN7JQrPR7Wkmp7y99K6mRHGU@127.0.0.1:3306/openproject
SECRET_TOKEN=c5aa99a90f9650404a885cf5ec7c28f7fe1379550bb811cb0b39058f9407eaa216b9b2b22d27f58fb15ac21adb3bd16494ebe89e39ec225ef4627db048a12530
ADMIN_EMAIL=<a class="email" href="mailto:mail@example.com">mail@example.com</a>
EMAIL_DELIVERY_METHOD=smtp
SMTP_DOMAIN=10.10.3.6
SMTP_HOST=127.0.0.1
SMTP_PASSWORD=mail
SMTP_PORT=25
SMTP_URL=smtp://mail:9sfiaef3fsf@10.10.3.6:25
SMTP_USERNAME=mail
SMTP_ENABLE_STARTTLS_AUTO=true
SMTP_AUTHENTICATION=plain
WEB_CONCURRENCY=2
WEB_TIMEOUT=15
RAILS_CACHE_STORE=memcache
SESSION_STORE=cach_store
Example change session store
sudo service openproject stop
sudo openproject config:set SESSION_STORE="active_record_store"
sudo service openproject start
Attention: Be aware that you should only set or change settings which are directly related to the openproject application/instance itself (see the list above). For example settings related to the apache web server can also be set via the config:set option but this can end up in an undesired state of the openproject application. If you want to change these settings use the reconfigure option. This will bring up the installation wizard again. See the “Reconfigure via wizard” section for more details on that.
Run commands like rake tasks or rails console
The openproject command line tool supports running rake tasks and known scripts like the rails console. See example below how to do that.
sudo openproject run rails console
or rake task
sudo openproject run rake db:migrate
Show logs
The command line tool can also be used to see the log information. The most typically use case is to show/follow all current log entries. This can be accomplished using the the –tail flag. See example below.
sudo openproject logs --tail
Reconfigure via wizard
As already mentioned in section “Set configuration options” if it is necessary to reset all settings defined during the installation process the reconfigure option can be used.
sudo openproject reconfigure
The command above will bring up the installation wizard again. Please be aware that it will start the configuration/installation process from scratch. That is why it won’t show entries you already made. So you have to fill out every form again.
Upgrade to a newer version
Upgrading the OpenProject is as easy as installing a newer OpenProject package and running the openproject configure command.
Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade openproject
sudo openproject configure
Fedora / CentOS / RHEL
sudo yum update
sudo yum install openproject
sudo openproject
SuSE Enterprise Server 12
sudo zypper update openproject sudo openproject configure