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First install thin web server, gitolite for git hosting and redmine to manage your project.

$ sudo apt-get install gitolite redmine thin

To make gitolite and redmine able to exchange, we need to add a plugin to redmine. Clone the plugin from github.

$ cd /usr/share/redmine/vendor/plugins/
$ sudo git clone git://github.com/gdoffe/redmine-gitolite.git

Add ruby dependancies.

$ sudo gem install net-ssh lockfile ruby-openid
$ sudo gem install gitolite --pre

Launch redmine and plugins database init.

sudo RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate_plugins
sudo RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate_plugins
sudo RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data

Configure thin web server to listen for redmine requests.

$ sudo thin config -C /etc/thin/redmine.yml -c /usr/share/redmine --servers 1 -e production --user git --port 80

Create a folder where the plugin will store the git repositories.

$ sudo mkdir /var/cache/redmine/repositories

Create a special user gitolite which will be used by the redmine plugin to talk with gitolite.

$ sudo addgroup gitolite
$ sudo adduser --disabled-password --home /home/gitolite --ingroup gitolite gitolite

As gitolite application uses ssh to access git repositories, generate your ssh keys to be administrator.

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
$ cp ~/id_rsa.pub /tmp/<mon_login>.pub

Now log in as gitolite user to launch gitolite setup process.

$ sudo su - gitolite
$ gl-setup /tmp/<mon_login>.pub

Copy a git hook to keep redmine projects synchronised with git repositories.

$ cp /usr/share/redmine/vendor/plugins/redmine-gitolite/contrib/hooks/post-receive-redmine_gitolite .gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive

Now edit .gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive file to set DEFAULT_REDMINE_KEY and DEFAULT_REDMINE_SERVER as in redmine settings. Respectively API Key et Host name and path.

Delete hooked flag from all repositories and re-launch setup to propagate the hook.

$ rm `find repositories/ -name gitolite-hooked -print`
$ gl-setup