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I have a working Redmine installation on my Debian server, but I don't know how to configure Apache2 properly so that neither the content of the Redmine folder nor the Redmine start page will be displayed as the homepage of my website. Suppose the URL of the website was www.myexample.com.

Current state

  • www.myexample.com shows files of /var/www/redmine folder
  • with the symbolic link /var/www/redmine -> /usr/local/lib/redmine-2.1/public/

Wanted state

  • www.myexample.com should be my usual website homepage (e.g. showing index.html)
  • www.redmine.myexample.com or www.myexample.com/redmine should show the redmine page

I guess it is just a configuration problem but I cannot figure out the problem. So here are my configuration files. Do you see what I am missing here?

  1. /etc/apache2/httpd.conf 

    <VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName redmine.example.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www
  <Directory /var/www>
    AllowOverride all
    Options -MultiViews
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

  2. /etc/apache2/sites-available/redmine

    <VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine
  <Directory /var/www/redmine>
    AllowOverride all
    Options -MultiViews
    RailsBaseURI /redmine
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

  3. /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

After changing any of these files, do I have to restart Apache2 or use a2ensite to activate any of the hosts?

Bastian
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I've written a how-to including this. While it is about Redmine 1.3.x it should be still relevant for the Apache part.

Full how-to: Redmine stable on Debian stable. Basically, it comes down to this:

  • Install and configure mod_passenger in /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf:

    PassengerDefaultUser www-data
# Below are some lines to tweak mod-passenger.
# This keeps some Ruby processes running,
# but the average response time is a lot lower
# on low-traffic sites.
RailsSpawnMethod smart
PassengerPoolIdleTime 3000
RailsAppSpawnerIdleTime 0
PassengerMaxRequests 1000

  • Extend your current main 'site', for example /etc/apache2/sites-available/mymainsite:

    <Directory /var/www/redmine>
        RailsBaseURI /redmine
        PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
</Directory>

  • Create another 'site' and include the same as above, changing the RailsBaseURI value to /.

gertvdijk
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  • Well I am kind of astonished, but your approach actually works! The redmine page is now available under 'http://mydomain/redmine' while the standard homepage is available under 'http://mydomain'! One question though: Do you know how to make the redmine section available under a seperate subdomain 'http://redmine.mydomain'? – Bastian Nov 26 '12 at 16:58
  • Use regular `VirtualHost`ing directives like `ServerName` and include the `` part as you like. This is out of scope of any Redmine/Ruby application, but basic Apache configuration. – gertvdijk Nov 26 '12 at 17:07
  • Another question: I just switched my main directory to `/var/www/main` while keeping `/var/www/redmine` and the apache2 configuration as is. Unfortunately I seem to have broken the availability of redmine now, the website does not know `http://mydomain/redmine` anymore. Do you know what I have to change? – Bastian Nov 27 '12 at 17:02