The installation procedure may differ for different plugins, but it has some common steps, which we will review in this section. Before installing a plugin, you should always check out its documentation to ensure that you will be doing this properly.
Note
This section is intended for administrators who have access to the filesystem of the server on which Redmine runs. Also, plugin installation may require root access.
Redmine plugins usually come in a directory, which should be copied to the plugins
subdirectory of Redmine (that is, for example, into /opt/redmine/redmine-3.2.0/plugins
if you have installed Redmine at /opt/redmine/redmine-3.2.0
).
Tip
What if the plugin's directory is missing or has an invalid name?
The plugin should contain the init.rb
file in its main directory. So, if this file is in the root, it means that the plugin's directory is missing. Also, the init.rb
file should contain the following line:
Redmine::Plugin.register :plugin_name do
Here, plugin_name
is...