Open Source Project Management with activeCollab on Ubuntu
28 September 2007activeCollab is a web based open-source project management and collaboration tool similar to the popular one Basecamp.
activeCollab is not yet launched. It has made some RC versions available for people who wish to try it out.
I am going to discuss 0.7-rc1 release of activeCollab.
activeCollab helps us to manage our projects using web based interaction.
Here is a step-by-step procedure to get it up and running in no time on Ubuntu GNU/Linux OS:
You need to have Apache Web Server, PHP and MySQL running before you get started.
- Download activeCollab.tar.gz from here.
- Extract the package in /var/www/ directory.
- Direct your browser to http://localhost/activecollab/public/install/
- Press Next to continue.
- This page displays the environment check status
- Download and install php5-gd
- Enable the gd extension in php.ini
- Restart apache
- After making sure that all the lines display OK, press Next.
- Before you press Next, you need to create a database and provide its name in the Database name: field. Let’s just assume that you have provided the name ac. Also you need to provide the settings such as username, password etc for the account which can use the database which you created earlier. After providing these press Next.
- That’s all. activeCollab will create the necessary tables by connecting to the database. It displays the summary of the activities it has performed.
- Now you can press the Finish button.
- In the next page, you will be asked to create the Administrator account.
- Enter details such as username, email, password and Company Name. Once you have entered them press Submit button.
- You’ll be directly taken to the login page where you need to provide your username and password.
- You can access the login page directly by browsing to http://localhost/activecollab/.
- Once you login you’ll be taken to the Dashboard. Here you can provide information about your company, team, clients, and then you can add projects.
If ‘gd’ extension is not loaded, please follow the below instructions to load it:
To add GD Library support
#sudo apt-get install php5-gdRemove the ; from ;extension=gd.so in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini#sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Common Errors during installation:
# Error: /config/config.php is not writable
# Error: /public/files is not writable
# Error: /cache is not writable
# Error: /upload is not writableMake sure you enable write permissions on the following directories and files.
#cd /var/www/activecollab
#chmod a+w activecollab/config/
#chmod a+w activecollab/public/
#chmod a+w activecollab/cache/
#chmod a+w activecollab/upload/
#chmod a+w activecollab/config/config.php
#chmod a+w activecollab/public/files/
As mentioned earlier, activeCollab is not yet launched but it looks promising.
You can read the official blog here.
You can also participate in its growing community here.
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