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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Increasing file upload size


File upload size can annoy your users if it's set improperly. This recipe explains how to increase file size and avoid common problems.

How to do it…

To increase file upload size, perform the following actions:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Settings | General.

  2. Configure the value of maximum attachment size in KB.

  3. Click the Save button.

  4. To check your file upload size, you can try adding a new issue, and the current file upload limit will be displayed there like in the following image:

If you still face problems uploading files, check for the following limitations.

These will be limitations on Apache-hosted Redmine:

Check for LimitRequestBody in your virtual host configuration or general configuration, and SecResponseBodyLimit if mod_security is installed and used.

On Nginx look for and replace with the following desired value instead:

server {
  client_max_body_size 100M;
}

On IIS, Change the values of the following:

<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength ="<length&gt...