Installing MantisBT on Ubuntu 22.04

MantisBT is an open-source issue tracking system that helps teams track and manage bugs and issues in their software development projects. It offers features such as issue tracking, project management, collaboration, and reporting. It is written in PHP and supports various databases.

To install MantisBT on Ubuntu 22.04, you can follow the steps below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install apache2

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mbstring php-xml php-curl

sudo apt install mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE mantisbt_db;
CREATE USER 'mantisbt_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mantisbt_db.* TO 'mantisbt_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://www.mantisbt.org/files/mantisbt-latest.zip
sudo unzip mantisbt-latest.zip

sudo mv mantisbt-x.x.x mantisbt

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mantisbt
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/mantisbt

http://localhost/mantisbt

1. Update system packages:
2. Install Apache web server:
3. Install PHP and required extensions:
4. Install and configure the database (MySQL/MariaDB):
5. Create a new database and user:
6. Download and extract MantisBT:
7. Rename the extracted folder:
8. Set permissions:
9. Access MantisBT in your web browser:
10. Follow the on-screen instructions to finish the installation.

Once the installation is complete, you can start using MantisBT to track and manage issues in your projects.