Install Mantis Issue Tracker on Ubuntu 16.04

MantisBT is an open source issue tracker.We will look at installation of Mantis on ubuntu 16.04 OS.

You can download mantis from

This download contains a zip file containg the php code for mantis

Extract the zip file and Copy the directory to /var/www/html/mantis directory

sudo unzip mantisbt-2.4.0.zip
mv mantisbt-2.4.0 /var/www/html/mantis

Pre Requisites

mantis requires the mbstring module of php .

Run the following command to install and enable the same

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo php5enmod mbstring
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install php5-xcache

Access the url from the webbrowser to initiate the setup

http://localhost/mantis/admin/install.php

Enter the server and database details and click on “Install/Upgrade” button to finish installation This will do the necessary installation.

To access mantis login page access the url

http://localhost/mantisbt/login_page.php

The defaul admin username and password is administrator and root respectively

References

• http://www.mantisbt.org/docs/master/en-US/Admin_Guide/html-single/#admin.install.preinstall