Installing Mantis Bug Tracker

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Mantis BT is a tool for event management (or bug tracker in English) Open Source. The tool is written in PHP and uses a database. The database recommended for implementation of Mantis is mysql.

Pre-requisite technical

Enforcement tools are composed of mantis in the software suite widely used in Web development called LAMP (L inux-A-Pache M-P ySQL hp)

• Linux is the OS that will host the mantis.
• Apache is the front-end Web server to receive HTTP requests.
• Mysql is a database tool recommended for home database mantis.
• Php is the interpretation of the PHP language which allows for dynamic web pages.

Configure Mysql

Mysql configuration is to create a database and an authorized user on this database. In our case the database is called "mantisdb" and the user name "mantis". In what follows the need to connect to the MySql console.

• Creation of the database

mantisdb create database;

• Creating user

grant all on .* to mantisdb 'mantis' @' localhost 'identified by' mypassword ';

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Installing mantis

You should download the archive containing MantisBT. Decompress the archive in the web directory of your web server (ex: / var / www)
Go to the next page via your web browser to continue the installation:
http://adresse_Ip_serveur_web/mantis/admin/install.php


Configuring mantis

Mantis configuration is essentially the configuration file config_inc.php
The file then contains the following lines:

<? php 
      / / Configure the database 
      $ g_hostname = 'localhost'; 
      $ g_db_type = 'mysql'; 
      $ g_database_name = 'mantisdb'; 
      $ g_db_username = 'mantis'; 
      $ g_db_password = 'mantis'; 


      / / Setting mail 
      $ g_phpMailer_method ='2 '; 
      $ g_smtp_host = 'adresse.serveur.smtp'; 

      / / Configure email addresses system 
      $ g_administrator_email = 'administrateur@netapsys.fr'; 
      g_webmaster_email $ = $ g_administrator_email; 
      $ g_from_email = 'no-reply-mantis@netapsys.fr'; 

      / / Setting the language and date format 
      $ g_default_language = 'french'; 
      $ g_short_date_format = 'dm-Y'; 
      $ g_normal_date_format = 'dmY H: i'; 
      $ g_complete_date_format = 'dmY H: i'; 

    
      / / Customizing Mantis 
      $ g_window_title = 'Mantis Netapsys'; 

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