Installing of Mantis Bug Tracker

Mantis BT is an open source tool for event management. The tool is written in PHP and relies on a database to work. The database recommended for implementation of Mantis is mysql.

Requirements

• The tools making up Mantis BT are native to a software suite widely used in Web development called LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-Php)
• Linux is the OS that will host the Mantis.
• Apache is the front-end Web server to receive HTTP requests.
• Mysql is a tool recommended DBMS to host the database of Mantis.
• Php is the tool of interpretation of PHP language allowing the use of dynamic web pages.

Configuring Mysql

Configure Mysql to create a database and an authorized user on this database. In our case the database is called "mantisdb" and the user name "mantis".

• Creating= the database
  • Connect to the MySQL console:

create database mantisdb;

• • Creating the user account

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

Installing Mantis

You must download the archive containing MantisBT. Unpack the archive in the web directory of your webserver (eg / var / www)
Go to this page via your web browser to continue the installation:

Put the values shown in the screenshot and click on install/upgrade database


Mantis is now installed
You can use the following URL:

• http://web_server_ip_address/mantis
• login: administrator
• password: root

Configure Mantis

Configuring mantis is donee through the config_inc.php configuration file
The file contains the following lines:

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


	// Setting up the mail 
	$g_phpMailer_method='2';
	$g_smtp_host='server.address.smtp';

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

	// Setting the language and date format
	$g_default_language='english';
	$g_short_date_format='d-m-Y';
	$g_normal_date_format='d-m-Y H:i';
	$g_complete_date_format='d-m-Y H:i';

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

?>

Notes: Thanks to wjaouadi for this tip.