activeCollab is an open-source, web based collaboration and project management tool. I am excited about it after reading some materials from the web. Here I record down the steps I installed it on my newly installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) LAMP Server. I only use Putty (login as root onto the Ubuntu server) and a web browser to finish the task. It only takes me less than 15 minutes.
Step 1: Open a Putty session and type the following commands:
wget http://www.activecollab.com/files/0.6/activeCollab.zip
unzip activeCollab.zip
cp -r activeCollab /var/www/
cd /var/www
chown -R www-data activeCollab/
cd activeCollab
chmod -R 766 cache/
chmod -R 766 config/
chmod -R 766 public/
Step 2: Create MySQL database and database user. I use ‘activecollab’ as the database name, ‘acdbuser’ as the database username, and ‘******’ as the database password’. Type the following commands with the existing Putty session.
mysql -u root -p
Enter password: ****** mysql > create database activecollab; mysql > grant all privileges on activecollab.* to 'acdbuser'@'localhost' identified by '******'; mysql > exit
Step 3: Open a web browser and type ‘http://yourdomain.com/activecollab/install’ as the URL. Follow the instructions. You need to input the database name, username, and passowrd you decided earlier.