MantisBT

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Documentation

For complete documentation, please read the administration guide included with this release in the doc/<lang> directory. The guide is available in text, PDF, and HTML formats.

Requirements

• MySQL 5.5.35+, PostgreSQL 9.2+, or other supported database
• PHP 7.4.0+
• a webserver (e.g. Apache or IIS)

Please refer to section 2.2 in the administration guide for further details.

Installation

• Extract the tarball into a location readable by your web server
• Open your browser and navigate to https://example.com/mantisbt/admin/check/index.php to verify that your web server is compatible with MantisBT and configured correctly.
• Open your browser and navigate to https://example.com/mantisbt/admin/install.php to start the database installation process.
• Select the database type and enter the credentials to access the database
• Click install/upgrade
• Installation is complete -- you may need to copy the default configuration to mantisbt/config/config_inc.php if your web server does not have write access
• Remove the admin directory from within the MantisBT installation path. The scripts within this directory should not be accessible on a live MantisBT site or on any installation that is accessible via the Internet.

UPGRADING

• Backup your existing installation and database -- really!
• Extract the tarball into a clean directory; do not extract into an existing installation, as some files have been moved or deleted between releases
• Copy your configuration from the old installation to the new directory, including config_inc.php, custom_strings_inc.php, custom_relationships_inc.php, custom_functions_inc.php and custom_constants_inc.php if they exist
• Point your browser to https://example.com/mantisbt/admin/check/index.php to ensure that your webserver is compatible with MantisBT and configured correctly
• Point your browser to https://example.com/mantisbt/admin/install.php to upgrade the database schema
• Click install/upgrade
• Remove the admin directory from within the MantisBT installation path. The scripts within this directory should not be accessible on a live MantisBT site or on any installation that is accessible via the Internet.
• Upgrading is complete

CONFIGURATION

This file contains information to help you customize MantisBT. A more detailed d