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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
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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

Starting and restarting Redmine


Starting and restarting Redmine differs upon server and operating system configurations. In this recipe, we are going to cover a few of the most common configurations.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have server administration privileges.

How to do it…

As mentioned earlier, starting and restarting Redmine differs upon server configuration, so here are a few most common ways to restart Redmine.

Restarting Redmine under Phusion Passenger

To restart Redmine running under Phusion Passenger, perform the following actions:

  1. Navigate to your Redmine installation folder.

  2. Navigate to app/tmp folder.

  3. Create an empty file called restart.txt.

  4. Log in to your Redmine or refresh it.

  5. Remove restart.txt.

Step 5 is not necessary because Phusion Passenger checks for the file's timestamp. If, for some reason, you want Redmine restarted after each request, then instead of restart.txt, create a file called always_restart.txt. However, always restarting will drastically decrease your server...