Deploy MantisBT - Simple Application Server - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Bug management is a crucial part of the software development process. Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an easy-to-use and robust open source bug tracking system that allows you to track and manage bugs. This topic describes how to deploy MantisBT on a simple application server.

Prerequisites

A simple application server is created based on a LAMP application image, and the password of the preset MySQL database is obtained. For more information, see Build a LAMP development environment.

Step 1: Download MantisBT

Connect to a LAMP simple application server.
For more information, see Connect to a Linux server.
Run the following command to go to the website root directory:
```
cd /<Website root directory>
```
The website root directory is different in the LAMP 6.1.0 and LAMP 7.4 application images.
- For LAMP 6.1.0 application image, the website root directory is /home/www/htdocs.
- For LAMP 7.4 application image, the website root directory is /data/wwwroot/example.
In this example, the LAMP 7.4 application image is used. Run the following command:
```
cd /data/wwwroot/example
```

Run the following command to download the MantisBT package:

sudo wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mantisbt/mantis-stable/1.3.20/mantisbt-1.3.20.zip --no-check-certificate

Run the following command to decompress the MantisBT package:
```
sudo unzip mantisbt-1.3.20.zip
```
Run the following command to move all extracted MantisBT files to the website root directory:
```
sudo mv ./mantisbt-1.3.20/* ./
```
To ensure system security, we recommend that you create a standard user to run MantisBT.
In this example, a standard user named www is created.
```
sudo useradd www
```
Run the following command to change the owner of the files in the website root directory:
```
sudo chown -R www:www ./*
```

Step 2: Install and log on to MantisBT

On your computer, use a browser to access http://<Public IP address of the LAMP simple application server>/index.php.
Note
Obtain the public IP address of the LAMP simple application server by clicking the card of the server to go to the Overview page.
1. Use a browser to access http://<Public IP address of the LAMP simple application server>/index.php.
In the Installation Options section, enter the database information of the LAMP simple application server.
You must specify Password (for Database). In this field, enter the password of the database preset on the server. For more information about how to query the password of the database preset on the server, see the "Step 2: View application information" section of the Build a LAMP development environment topic.
Click Install/Upgrade Database in the lower part of the page.
After the page is loaded, click create in the lower part of the Check and Install Database page.
Create a configuration file.
1. In the Write Configuration File(s) section of the page, obtain the configuration information.
2. Run the following command to create a configuration file:
```
sudo vi /data/wwwroot/example/config/config_inc.php
```
3. Press the I key to enter the edit mode.
4. Paste the configuration information obtained in 5.a into the file.
5. Press the Esc key, enter :wq, and then press the Enter key to save the file.
Enter http://<Public IP address of the LAMP simple application server>/login_page.php in your local browser. On the logon page of MantisBT, use the default account administrator and default password root to log on to MantisBT.
In the upper-right corner of the page, click My Account to change the password of administrator.
The first time you log on to MantisBT by using the administrator account, we recommend that you change the password.
Click Update User.
After you change the password, you can use the new password to log on to and use MantisBT.