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OrangeScrum is a free and open source project management tool which is widely used in small and medium businesses. This article describes the procedure of installing OrangeScrum on a CentOS 7 server.

Prerequisites

• A fresh Rcs CentOS 7 server instance with minimum 2G of memory.
• A sudo user.

1. Update the CentOS 7 system

Log into your machine as a sudo user and update the system.

$ sudo yum install epel-release -y
$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo shutdown -r now

After the system reboots, log in as the same sudo user to proceed.

2. Install and Configure Apache

1. Install Apache.

    $ sudo yum install httpd -y

2. Remove the pre-set Apache welcome page.

    $ sudo sed -i 's/^/#&/g' /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

3. Prevent Apache from exposing files and directories in visitors' web browser.

    $ sudo sed -i "s/Options Indexes FollowSymLinks/Options FollowSymLinks/" /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

4. Start the Apache service.

    $ sudo systemctl start httpd.service
    $ sudo systemctl enable httpd.service

3. Install and Configure MariaDB

1. Install MariaDB.

    $ sudo yum install mariadb mariadb-server -y

2. Modify the MariaDB database settings.

    $ sudo nano /etc/my.cnf

   To change the collation settings, append a few lines to the [mysqld] segment as shown below.

    [mysqld]
    datadir=/var/lib/mysql
    socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    init_connect='SET collation_connection=utf8_unicode_ci'
    init_connect='SET NAMES utf8'
    character-set-server=utf8
    collation-server=utf8_unicode_ci
    skip-character-set-client-handshake

3. Save and exit the editor.

4. Start the MariaDB service.

    $ sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
    $ sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

5. Secure the MariaDB installation.

    $ sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

6. During this interactive process, answer questions as shown below.

    Enter current password for root (enter for none): Enter
    Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
    New password: <your-password>
    Re-enter new password: <your-password>
    Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
    Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
    Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
    Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

4. Install and Configure PHP

1. Install the PHP Packages.

    $ sudo yum -y install php
    $ sudo yum -y install php-mysql
    $ sudo yum -y install php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-snmp php-soap php-tidy curl curl-devel

2. Increase the upload file size to 200 MB as required by OrangeScrum.

    $ sudo cp /etc/php.ini /etc/php.ini.bak
    $ sudo sed -i "s/post_max_size = 8M/post_max_size = 200M/" /etc/php.ini
    $ sudo sed -i "s/upload_max_filesize = 2M/upload_max_filesize = 200M/" /etc/php.ini

3. Restart Apache to load the new configuration.

    $ sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

5. Install OrangeScrum

1. Locate the latest stable version of OrangeScrum.

2. Download and unzip the file.

    $ cd
    $ wget https://github.com/Orangescrum/orangescrum/archive/<VERSION>.tar.gz
    $ tar -zxvf v1.6.1.tar.gz

3. Move all OrangeScrum files to the web root directory /var/www/html and then setup appropriate permissions.

    $ sudo mv ~/orangescrum-1.6.1 /var/www/html && sudo chown root:root -R /var/www/html
    $ sudo chmod -R 0777 /var/www/html/orangescrum-1.6.1/{app/Config,app/tmp,app/webroot}

4. Setup a virtual host for OrangeScrum.

    $ sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/orangescrum.conf

5. Populate the file with the following settings.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName orangescrum.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/orangescrum-1.6.1
    <Directory /var/www/html/orangescrum-1.6.1>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>

6. Save and exit the editor.

6. Create an OrangeScrum Database

1. Log into the MySQL shell as root.

    $ mysql -u root -p

   Use the MariaDB root password you set earlier to log in.

2. In the MySQL shell, create a database named orangescrum and a database user named orangescrumuser with the password yourpassword, and then grant all privileges on this database to this database user.

   Note: On your machine, make sure to replace these parameters in all commands with your values.

    CREATE DATABASE orangescrum;
    CREATE USER 'orangescrumuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orangescrum.* TO 'orangescrumuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    EXIT;

3. Import OrangeScrum data into the orangescrum database.

    $ mysql -u root -p orangescrum < /var/www/html/orangescrum-1.6.1/database.sql

4. Update OrangeScrum database credentials.

    $ sudo nano /var/www/html/orangescrum-1.6.1/app/Config/database.php

   Find the following lines:

    'login' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'database' => 'orangescrum',

   Change them to:

    'login' => 'orangescrumuser',
    'password' => 'yourpassword',
    'database' => 'orangescrum',

5. Save and exit the editor.

6. Update email details.

    $ sudo nano /var/www/html/orangescrum-1.6.1/app/Config/constants.php

   Find the following lines. Replace the email addresses and the password with your values.

    define("SMTP_UNAME", "youremail@gmail.com");
    define("SMTP_PWORD", "******");
    define('FROM_EMAIL_NOTIFY', 'notify@mycompany.com');
    define('SUPPORT_EMAIL', 'support@mycompany.com');

7. Save and exit the editor.

8. Restart Apache to load the new configuration.

    $ sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

9. Change the firewall rules to allow web access.

    $ sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=http
    $ sudo firewall-cmd --reload

10. Navigate to http://<your-server-IP>, enter your company name, an email ID, and a password to login.