-RT is an enterprise-grade issue tracking system. It allows organizations
-to keep track of what needs to get done, who is working on which tasks,
-what's already been done, and when tasks were (or weren't) completed.
-
-RT doesn't cost anything to use, no matter how much you use it; it
-is freely available under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General
-Public License.
-
-RT is commercially-supported software. To purchase support, training,
-custom development, or professional services, please get in touch with
-us at sales@bestpractical.com.
+# BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK
+#
+# Copyright (c) 1996-2003 Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>
+#
+# (Except where explictly superceded by other copyright notices)
+#
+# This work is made available to you under the terms of Version 2 of
+# the GNU General Public License. A copy of that license should have
+# been provided with this software, but in any event can be snarfed
+# from www.gnu.org.
+#
+# This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+# General Public License for more details.
+#
+# Unless otherwise specified, all modifications, corrections or
+# extensions to this work which alter its source code become the
+# property of Best Practical Solutions, LLC when submitted for
+# inclusion in the work.
+#
+#
+# END LICENSE BLOCK
+RT is an enterprise-grade issue tracking system. It allows
+organizations to keep track of their to-do lists, who is working
+on which tasks, what's already been done, and when tasks were
+completed. It is available under the terms of version 2 of the GNU
+General Public License (GPL), so it doesn't cost anything to set
+up and use.
- Jesse Vincent
- Best Practical Solutions, LLC
- March, 2005
+ Jesse Vincent
+ Best Practical Solutions, LLC
+ March 2003
-REQUIRED PACKAGES
------------------
+REQUIRED PACKAGES:
+------------------
-o Perl 5.8.3 or later (http://www.perl.org).
+o Perl 5.8.0 or later (http://www.perl.com).
- Perl versions prior to 5.8.3 contain bugs that could result
- in data corruption. RT won't start on older versions.
+ (If you intend to use the FastCGI or SpeedyCGI support, you
+ need to make sure that perl has been built with support for
+ setgid perl scripts.)`
-o A supported SQL database
+ Perl 5.6.1 is currently deprecated and will be officially desupported
+ in a future release
- Currently supported: Mysql 4.0.13 or later with InnoDB support.
+o A DB backend; MySQL is recommended ( http://www.mysql.com )
+ Currently supported: Mysql 4.0.13 or later.
Postgres 7.2 or later.
- Oracle 9iR2 or later.
- SQLite 3.0. (Not recommended for production)
-
-o Apache version 1.3.x or 2.x (http://httpd.apache.org)
- with mod_perl -- (http://perl.apache.org )
- or with FastCGI -- (www.fastcgi.com)
- or other webserver with FastCGI support
-
- RT's FastCGI handler needs to access RT's configuration file.
-
-o Various and sundry perl modules
- A tool included with RT takes care of the installation of
- most of these automatically during the install process.
-
- The tool supplied with RT uses Perl's CPAN system
- (http://www.cpan.org) to install modules. Some operating
- systems package all or some of the modules required, and
- you may be better off installing the modules that way.
-
-
-GENERAL INSTALLATION
---------------------
-
-This is a rough guide to installing RT. For more detail, you'll
-want to read a more comprehensive installation guide at:
-
- http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?InstallationGuides
-
-1 Unpack this distribution other than where you want to install RT
-
- To do this cleanly, run the following command:
-
- tar xzvf rt.tar.gz -C /tmp
-2 Run the "configure" script.
+ Mysql 3.23.46 or newer with support for InnoDB
+ is currently deprecated and will be officially
+ desupported in a future release.
- ./configure --help to see the list of options
- ./configure (with the flags you want)
+o Apache version 1.3.x or 2.x (http://httpd.apache.org)
+ with mod_perl -- (http://perl.apache.org )
+ or a webserver with FastCGI support (www.fastcgi.com)
- RT defaults to installing in /opt/rt3 with MySQL as its database. It
- tries to guess which of www-data, www, apache or nobody your webserver
- will run as, but you can override that behavior. Note that the
- default install directory in /opt/rt3 does not work under SELinux's
- default configuration.
+ mod_perl 2.0 isn't quite ready for prime_time just yet;
+ Best Practical Solutions strongly recommends that sites use
+ Apache 1.3 or FastCGI.
- If you're upgrading RT then it worth to read UPGRADING document at this
- moment. Some extension you're using may have been integrated into
- core. It's recommended to use new clean directory when you're
- upgrading to new major release (for example from 3.6.x to 3.8.x).
+ Compiling mod_perl on Apache 1.3.x as a DSO has been known
+ to have massive stability problems and is not recommended.
-3 Make sure that RT has everything it needs to run.
+ mod_perl 1.x must be build with EVERYTHING=1
- Check for missing dependencies by running:
+ RT's FastCGI handler runs setgid to the 'rt' group to
+ protect RT's database password. You may need to install
+ a special "suidperl" package or reconfigure your perl
+ setup to support "setuid scripts" if you intend to use RT
+ with FastCGI.
- make testdeps
+ Debian GNU/* 3.0+: the package which installs suidperl is
+ called perl-suid, and should work without any tweaking.
-4 If the script reports any missing dependencies, install them by hand
- or run the following command as a user who has permission to install perl
- modules on your system:
+ FreeBSD 4.2+: the package is called sperl, and should
+ install a suidperl that just works
- make fixdeps
+ Conectiva Linux 6.0+: suidperl is installed by default when
+ perl is installed, but the program /bin/suidperl is not setuid.
+ You must use chmod to make it setuid.
- Some modules require user input or environment variables to install correctly,
- so it may be necessary to install them manually.
-5 Check to make sure everything was installed properly.
- make testdeps
+o Various and sundry perl modules
+ A tool included with RT takes care of the installation of
+ most of these automatically during the install process.
- It might sometimes be necessary to run "make fixdeps" several times
- to install all necessary perl modules.
+ The tool supplied with RT uses Perl's CPAN system
+ (http://www.cpan.org) to install modules. Some operating
+ systems package all or some of the modules required and
+ you may be better off installing the modules that way.
-6 If this is a new installation:
- As a user with permission to install RT in your chosen directory, type:
-
- make install
-
- Set up etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm in your RT installation directory.
- You'll need to add any values you need to change from the defaults
- in etc/RT_Config.pm
-
- As a user with permission to read RT's configuration file, type:
-
- make initialize-database
-
- If the make fails, type:
-
- make dropdb
+GENERAL INSTALLATION
+--------------------
- and start over from step 6
+This is a rough guide to installing RT. For more detail, you'll want
+to read 'Chapter 2: Installing' in RT's manual, available at
+http://www.bestpractical.com/rt
-7 If you're upgrading from RT 3.0 or newer:
+1 Unpack this distribution SOMWHERE OTHER THAN where you want to install RT
- Read through the UPGRADING document included in this distribution. If
- you're using MySQL, read through UPGRADING.mysql as well.
+ Granted, you've already got it open. To do this cleanly:
- It includes special upgrade instructions that will help you get this
- new version of RT up and running smoothly.
+ tar xzvf rt.tar.gz -C /tmp
- As a user with permission to install RT in your chosen installation
- directory, type:
+2 Run the "configure" script.
- make upgrade
+ ./configure --help to see the list of options
+ ./configure (with the flags you want)
- This will install new binaries, config files and libraries without
- overwriting your RT database.
+3 Satisfy RT's myriad dependencies.
- Update etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm in your RT installation directory.
- You'll need to add any new values you need to change from the defaults
- in etc/RT_Config.pm
+3.1 Check for compliance:
+
+ perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies \
+ --with-<databasename> --with-<web-environment>
- You may also need to update RT's database. You can do this with
- the rt-setup-database tool. Replace root with the name of the dba
- user on your database (root is the default for MySQL).
+ databasename is one of: mysql, postgres
+ web-environment is one of: fastcgi, modperl1, modperl2
- You will be prompted for your previous version of RT (such as 3.6.4)
- so that we can calculate which database updates to apply
+3.2 If there are unsatisfied dependencies, install them by hand or run:
- You should back up your database before running this command.
+ perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies \
+ --with-<databasename> --with-<web-environment> --install
+
- /opt/rt3/sbin/rt-setup-database --dba root --prompt-for-dba-password --action upgrade
+3.3 Check to make sure everything was installed properly:
- Clear mason cache dir:
+ perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies \
+ --with-<databasename> --with-<web-environment>
- rm -fr /opt/rt3/var/mason_data/obj
+4 Create a group called 'rt'
- Stop and start web-server.
+5a FOR A NEW INSTALLATION:
+
+ As root, type:
+ make install (replace "make" with the local name for
+ Make, if you need to)
+
+ make initialize-database
-8 If you're upgrading from RT 2.0:
- Use the RT::Extension::RT2toRT3 module to upgrade to the current RT
- release. You can download it from CPAN here:
- http://search.cpan.org/dist/RT-Extension-RT2toRT3/
+ If the make fails, type:
+ make dropdb
+ and start over from step 5a
-9 Configure the email and web gateways, as described below.
+5b FOR UPGRADING: (Within the RT 3.0.x series)
- NOTE: root's password for the web interface is "password"
- (without the quotes). Not changing this is a SECURITY risk!
+ As root, type:
+ make upgrade (replace "make" with the local name for
+ Make, if you need to)
-10 Set up automated recurring tasks (cronjobs):
+ This will build new binaries, config files and libraries without
+ overwriting your RT database.
+
+ It may then instruct you to update your RT system database objects
- To generate email digest messages, you must arrange for the provided
- utility to be run once daily, and once weekly. You may also want to
- arrange for the rt-email-dashboards utility to be run hourly.
- For example, if your task scheduler is cron, you can configure it as
- follows:
+6 Edit etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm in your RT installation directory, by specifying
+ any values you need to change from the defaults in etc/RT_Config.pm
- crontab -e # as the RT administrator (probably root)
- # insert the following lines:
- 0 0 * * * /opt/rt3/sbin/rt-email-digest -m daily
- 0 0 * * 0 /opt/rt3/sbin/rt-email-digest -m weekly
- 0 * * * * /opt/rt3/sbin/rt-email-dashboards
+7 Configure the email and web gateways, as described below.
+8 Stop and start your webserver, so it picks up your configuration changes.
-11 Set up users, groups, queues, scrips and access control.
+ NOTE: root's password for the web interface is "password"
+ (without the quotes.) Not changing this is a SECURITY risk
+
+9 Configure RT per the instructions in RT's manual.
Until you do this, RT will not be able to send or receive email,
nor will it be more than marginally functional. This is not an
optional step.
+THE WEB INTERFACE
+-----------------
+RT's web interface is based around HTML::Mason, which works best with the mod_perl
+perl interpreter within Apache httpd. Alternatively, support for the FastCGI
+(and plain CGI) interface is also provided as 'bin/mason_handler.fcgi'.
-SETTING UP THE WEB INTERFACE
-----------------------------
-
-RT's web interface is based around HTML::Mason, which works well with
-the mod_perl perl interpreter within Apache httpd and FastCGI.
-
-Once you've set up the web interface, consider setting up automatic
-logout for inactive sessions. For more information about how to do that,
-run
- perldoc /path/to/rt/sbin/rt-clean-sessions
-
-
-mod_perl 1.xx
--------------
-
-WARNING: mod_perl 1.99_xx is not supported.
-
-See below configuration instructions for mod_perl 2.x
-
-To install RT with mod_perl 1.x, you'll need to install the
-apache database connection cache. To make sure it's installed, run
-the following command:
-
- perl -MCPAN -e'install "Apache::DBI"'
-
-Next, add a few lines to your Apache 1.3.xx configuration file, so that
-it knows where to find RT:
+Apache
+ You'll need to add a few lines to your httpd.conf telling it about RT:
<VirtualHost your.ip.address>
ServerName your.rt.server.hostname
-
DocumentRoot /opt/rt3/share/html
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
- # optional apache logs for RT
- # ErrorLog /opt/rt3/var/log/apache.error
- # TransferLog /opt/rt3/var/log/apache.access
+ # this line applies to Apache2+mod_perl2 only
+ PerlModule Apache2 Apache::compat
PerlModule Apache::DBI
PerlRequire /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl
- <Location /NoAuth/images>
- SetHandler default
- </Location>
+ # this section applies to Apache 1 only
<Location />
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler RT::Mason
</Location>
-</VirtualHost>
-
-mod_perl 2.xx
--------------
-
-WARNING: mod_perl 1.99_xx is not supported.
-
-Add a few lines to your Apache 2.xx configuration file, so that
-it knows where to find RT:
-
-<VirtualHost your.ip.address>
- ServerName your.rt.server.hostname
-
- DocumentRoot /opt/rt3/share/html
- AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
-
- # optional apache logs for RT
- # ErrorLog /opt/rt3/var/log/apache2.error
- # TransferLog /opt/rt3/var/log/apache2.access
- PerlRequire "/opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl"
-
- <Location /NoAuth/images>
- SetHandler default
- </Location>
- <Location />
+ # this section applies to Apache2+mod_perl2 only
+ <FilesMatch "\.html$">
SetHandler perl-script
- PerlResponseHandler RT::Mason
- </Location>
-</VirtualHost>
-
-FastCGI
--------
-
-Installation with FastCGI is a little bit more complex and is documented
-in detail at http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?FastCGIConfiguration
-
-In the most basic configuration, you can set up your webserver to run
-as a user who is a member of the "rt" unix group so that the FastCGI script
-can read RT's configuration file. It's important to understand the security
-implications of this configuration, which are discussed in the document
-mentioned above.
-
-To install RT with FastCGI, you'll need to add a few lines to your
-Apache configuration file telling it about RT:
-
-
-# Tell FastCGI to put its temporary files somewhere sane.
-FastCgiIpcDir /tmp
-
-FastCgiServer /opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi -idle-timeout 120
-
-<VirtualHost rt.example.com>
- ServerName your.rt.server.hostname
-
- # Pass through requests to display images
- Alias /NoAuth/images/ /opt/rt3/share/html/NoAuth/images/
-
- AddHandler fastcgi-script fcgi
- ScriptAlias / /opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi/
+ PerlHandler RT::Mason
+ </FilesMatch>
+ <LocationMatch "/Attachment/">
+ SetHandler perl-script
+ PerlHandler RT::Mason
+ </LocationMatch>
+ <LocationMatch "/REST/">
+ SetHandler perl-script
+ PerlHandler RT::Mason
+ </LocationMatch>
</VirtualHost>
-SETTING UP THE MAIL GATEWAY
+SETTING UP THE MAIL GATEWAY
---------------------------
-To let email flow to your RT server, you need to add a few lines of
-configuration to your mail server's "aliases" file. These lines "pipe"
-incoming email messages from your mail server to RT.
+An alias for the initial queue will need to be made in either your
+global mail aliases file (if you are using NIS) or locally on your
+machine.
+
+Add the following lines to /etc/aliases (or your local equivalent) :
-Add the following lines to /etc/aliases (or your local equivalent) on your mail server:
+rt: "|/opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate --queue general --action correspond --url http://localhost/"
+rt-comment: "|/opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate --queue general --action comment --url http://localhost/"
+ | | |
+ <queue-name>----/ | |
+ | |
+ <correspond or comment depending on whether | |
+ the mail should be resent to the requestor>---/ |
+ |
+ <URL for RT's web interface>---/
-rt: "|/opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate --queue general --action correspond --url http://rt.example.com/"
-rt-comment: "|/opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate --queue general --action comment --url http://rt.example.com/"
-
-You'll need to add similar lines for each queue you want to be able
-to send email to. To find out more about how to configure RT's email
-gateway, type:
-
- perldoc /opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate
+BUGS
+----
+To report a bug, send email to rt-3.0-bugs@fsck.com.
GETTING HELP
------------
If RT is mission-critical for you or if you use it heavily, we recommend that
you purchase a commercial support contract. Details on support contracts
-are available at http://www.bestpractical.com or by writing to
-<sales@bestpractical.com>.
+are available at http://www.bestpractical.com.
If you're interested in having RT extended or customized or would like more
-information about commercial support options, please send email to
+information about commercial support options, please send email to
<sales@bestpractical.com> to discuss rates and availability.
-
-RT WEBSITE
-----------
-
-For current information about RT, check out the RT website at
- http://www.bestpractical.com/
-
-You'll find screenshots, a pointer to the current version of RT, contributed
-patches, and lots of other great stuff.
-
-
-
-RT-USERS MAILING LIST
----------------------
+RT-USERS MAILINGLIST
+--------------------
To keep up to date on the latest RT tips, techniques and extensions,
you probably want to join the rt-users mailing list. Send a message to:
- rt-users-request@lists.bestpractical.com
+ rt-users-request@lists.fsck.com
-with the body of the message consisting of only the word:
+With the body of the message consisting of only the word:
- subscribe
+ subscribe
If you're interested in hacking on RT, you'll want to subscribe to
-<rt-devel@lists.bestpractical.com>. Subscribe to it with instructions
-similar to those above.
+rt-devel@lists.fsck.com. Subscribe to it with instructions similar to
+those above.
Address questions about the stable release to the rt-users list, and
questions about the development version to the rt-devel list. If you feel
<jesse@bestpractical.com>.
+RT WEBSITE
+----------
-BUGS
-----
+For current information about RT, check out the RT website at
+ http://www.bestpractical.com/
-RT's a pretty complex application, and as you get up to speed, you might
-run into some trouble. Generally, it's best to ask about things you
-run into on the rt-users mailinglist (or pick up a commercial support
-contract from Best Practical). But, sometimes people do run into bugs. In
-the exceedingly unlikely event that you hit a bug in RT, please report
-it! We'd love to hear about problems you have with RT, so we can fix them.
-To report a bug, send email to rt-bugs@fsck.com.
+You'll find screenshots, a pointer to the current version of RT, contributed
+patches, and lots of other great stuff.
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+TROUBLESHOOTING
+---------------
+
+If the solution to the problem you're running into isn't obvious and you've
+checked the FAQ, feel free to send mail to rt-users@fsck.com (for released
+versions of RT) or rt-devel@fsck.com (for development versions).
+
+Thanks!
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