Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Verifying and completing the installation


Now we need to check whether the installation is correct. To do this, click on the Sign in link in the top-right corner and log in to your Redmine account. Use admin both as the login and the password.

After you have signed in, click on the newly appeared Administration item in the top dark blue menu bar. Then select the Information page from the sidebar. You will see something like this:

This is the page that one should always check after installing Redmine! As you can see, it contains a checklist that should be used to verify the installation.

As everyone knows that both the default username and password for Redmine are admin, you should change the password (at least) as soon as possible. To do this right now (what is recommended), go to the Users section of the Administration area, select the admin user, enter a new password in the Password and Confirmation fields of the Authentication box, and click on Save. This will make the corresponding item...