Installing WebIssues - Bug and Enhancement Tracker - on Linux

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0222.html

What is WebIssues?

WebIssues is an open source, multi-platform system for issue tracking and team collaboration. It can be used to store, share and track issues with various attributes, description, comments and file attachments. It is easy to install and use but has many capabilities and is highly customizable. - https://webissues.mimec.org/

Installation

   01. Log into the Debian device    02. Run the following commands in a terminal:          # update software repositories          sudo apt update          # install available updates          sudo apt upgrade -y          # install Apache HTTPD and MySQL          sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client curl -y          # install PHP components          sudo apt install php php-common php-mysqli php-mbstring php-imap -y          # configure the MySQL database          sudo su          mysql_secure_installation    03. Press Enter to login as root    04. Type N and press Enter to not switch to socket authentication    05. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm    06. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users    07. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely    08. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database    09. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables    10. Run the following command to login into MySQL:          mysql -u root -p    11. Authenticate with the root password set earlier    12. Run the following commands to create the database and database user          CREATE DATABASE webissues;          GRANT ALL ON webissues.* TO 'webissues_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'W3b1ssu3s!';          FLUSH PRIVILEGES;          EXIT;          exit    13. Continue with the following commands to download and extract WebIssues in the Apache webroot          # download latest WebIssues version          sudo wget -O webissues.tar.gz https://github.com/mimecorg/webissues/releases/download/v2.0.3/webissues-server-2.0.3.tar.gz          # extract webissues.tar.gz          sudo tar xzvf webissues.tar.gz --directory /var/www/html          # rename webissues folder          sudo mv /var/www/html/webissues* /var/www/html/webissues          # set the owner of the new webissues directory to www-data          sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/webissues          # restart apache2 service          sudo systemctl restart apache2    14. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/webissues    15. Click the Configure Database link    16. Select a Language ≫ Click Next    17. Select Create new database tables and MySQL ≫ Complete the form as follows          Host name: localhost          Database name: webissues          User name: webissues_rw          Password: W3b1ssu3s!    18. Click Next at the bottom right of the page    19. Give the server a name and enter and confirm a password for the admin user ≫ Click Next    20. Review the installation summary ≫ Click Install    21. After the installation completes click the Web Client link    22. Welcome to WebIssues   Source:  https://doc.mimec.org/webissues-guide/installation.html  

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