In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Orangescrum on your Ubuntu 16.04. For those of you who didn’t know, Orangescrum is a free, open-source, flexible project management web application written using CakePHP. It helps you to manage projects, teams, documents, and tasks, all in one place. Orangescrum provides various features like agile project management, collaboration, issue tracking, notifications, reporting, task management, and traditional project management functionality for small/medium businesses.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Orangescrum on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
Prerequisites
- A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
- It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
- SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
- A
non-root sudo useror access to theroot user. We recommend acting as anon-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.
Install Orangescrum on Ubuntu 16.04
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) server.
A Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also, install all required PHP modules:
apt-get install imagemagick php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mysql libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt
Step 3. Installing Orangescrum.
The first thing to do is to go to Orangescrum’s download page and download the latest stable version of Orangescrum:
wget https://github.com/Orangescrum/orangescrum/archive/master.zip
After downloading Orangescrum you will need to unzip master.zip. To do this, run:
unzip master.php -d /var/www/html mv /var/www/html/orangescrum-master/ /var/www/html/orangescrum
We will need to change some folders permissions:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/orangescrum
Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for Orangescrum.
By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each step carefully which will set a root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB:
mysql_secure_installation
Configure it like this:
- Set root password? [Y/n] y - Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y - Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y - Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y - Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y
Next, we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the Orangescrum. Run the following command:
mysql -u root -p
This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for Orangescrum installation:
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE orangescrum; MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orangescrum.* TO 'orangescrumuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD'; MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; MariaDB [(none)]> \q
Now, change the current working directory and import the Orangescrum data from the database.sql dump file into the newly created MariaDB database:
cd /var/www/html/orangescrum/ mysql -u x2crmuser -p orangescrum < database.sql
Open and modify the ‘database.php’ file to update the database information:
### nano app/Config/database.php public $default = array( 'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql', 'persistent' => false, 'host' => 'localhost', 'login' => 'orangescrumuser', 'password' => 'PASSWORD', 'database' => 'orangescrum', 'prefix' => '', 'encoding' => 'utf8', );
Next step, edit the ‘constants.php’ file and update the WEB_DOMAIN, FROM_EMAIL_NOTIFY, and SUPPORT_EMAIL fields:
### nano app/Config/constants.php
define("WEB_DOMAIN", "YourDomain.com"); //ex. idroot.orangescrum.com
define('FROM_EMAIL_NOTIFY', 'notify@idroot.us'); //(REQUIRED)
define('SUPPORT_EMAIL', 'support@idroot.us'); //(REQUIRED) From Email
Save and close the file.
Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for Orangescrum.
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘orangescrum.conf’ on your virtual server:
sudo a2enmod rewrite rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/orangescrum.conf ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/orangescrum.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/orangescrum.conf nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/orangescrum.conf
Add the following lines:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/orangescrum/ ServerName your-domain.com ServerAlias www.your-domain.com <Directory /var/www/html/orangescrum/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost>
Now, we can restart the Apache webserver so that the changes take place:
systemctl restart apache2.service
Step 6. Accessing Orangescrum.
Orangescrum will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com or http://your-server-ip and complete the required steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Orangescrum. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Orangescrum on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Orangescrum website.
