Hi Martin,

to give you a good answer, can you please tell us how you’ve installed OpenProject (there are different ways, each resulting in a slightly different way to install plugins)

cheers,
Philipp

I’m not sure, but I think it was installed by the description here: https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Debian_Stable_with_MySQL_in_production.

In this case https://gist.github.com/crohr/10111721 does not apply (openproject is not installed as a service).

In your case

1. stop the server
2. create a Gemfile.plugin file, as described in the plugin documentation page
3. run bundle install
4. run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate
5. run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:seed
6. run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

I hope I covered everything :)

cheers,
Philipp

Where do I create the Gemfile.plugin? Do I create it in the openproject-folder besides Gemfile and Gemfile.lock?

Moreover there is an strong outline that the openproject-plugins is required for each plugin. But the plugins list only mentions dependencies to the Backlogs-Plugin, the PDF-Export-Plugin and the Emoji-Plugin. Are there more dependencies? Where do I find a complete list of needed dependencies?

Martin Böhm wrote:

Where do I create the Gemfile.plugin? Do I create it in the openproject-folder besides Gemfile and Gemfile.lock?

exactly

Moreover there is an strong outline that the openproject-plugins is required for each plugin. But the plugins list only mentions dependencies to the Backlogs-Plugin, the PDF-Export-Plugin and the Emoji-Plugin. Are there more dependencies? Where do I find a complete list of needed dependencies?

openproject-plugins is required by many (but not all) plugins. And your’re right, the backlogs plugins needs openproject-plugins as a dependency (I added it to the list just now).

The emoji-plugin is not needed by any other plugin (I know of).

In general, you can (= should) find complete installation instructions for a plugin at the plugin’s readme (the “source” link in the plugin table).

Thanks for your quick reply.

I run bundle install under the recommended openproject-user. But I get the following error:

Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
        from extconf.rb:19:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in /tmp/bundler20140610-13056-10jr4o8/binding_of_caller-0.7.2/gems/binding_of_caller-0.7.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /tmp/bundler20140610-13056-10jr4o8/binding_of_caller-0.7.2/gems/binding_of_caller-0.7.2/ext/binding_of_caller/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing binding_of_caller (0.7.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install binding_of_caller -v '0.7.2'` succeeds before bundling.

What does this mean? What is missing or how can I work around?

Thanks for your reply.

The error origins from missing ruby-dev. I googled around and found the following solution:
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

Then I called “bundle install” again.

I’ve ran all your commands successfully. Thereafter I started “service apache2 start”. But at the administration web interface the plugins are missing.

Do I have to restart the openproject server? How do I restart the openproject application or is it started up by apache2?

The passenger process might still be running (passenger is a webserver, that can run openproject and serves it to apache). You can restart passenger through creating/touching a file called restart.txt. You can find (or create) that file at <path to your openproject installation>/tmp/restart.txt.

Passenger is restarted on the next web-request (this implies that the next request might take much longer).

Have a look at the passenger documentation for details.

This way you can restart OpenProject without restarting apache (and with it probably your whole site) every time.

Done! But plugins are not shown.

At my apache2 error.log I found this lines:

[ 2014-06-11 08:26:13.9493 2356/7f7b71558700 Pool2/SmartSpawner.h:297 ]: Preloader for /home/openproject/openproject started on PID 3270, listening on unix:/tmp/passenger.1.0.2316/generation-0/backends/preloader.3270
App 3381 stdout: 
[Wed Jun 11 08:38:21 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.3086 3806/7f6adb33c720 agents/Watchdog/Main.cpp:538 ]: Options: { 'analytics_log_user' => 'nobody', 'default_group' => 'nogroup', 'default_python' => 'python', 'default_ruby' => '/home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/wrappers/ruby', 'default_user' => 'nobody', 'log_level' => '0', 'max_pool_size' => '6', 'passenger_root' => '/home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/passenger-4.0.44', 'passenger_version' => '4.0.44', 'pool_idle_time' => '300', 'temp_dir' => '/tmp', 'union_station_gateway_address' => 'gateway.unionstationapp.com', 'union_station_gateway_port' => '443', 'user_switching' => 'true', 'web_server_passenger_version' => '4.0.44', 'web_server_pid' => '3805', 'web_server_type' => 'apache', 'web_server_worker_gid' => '33', 'web_server_worker_uid' => '33' }
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.3231 3809/7f0bebce1720 agents/HelperAgent/Main.cpp:649 ]: PassengerHelperAgent online, listening at unix:/tmp/passenger.1.0.3805/generation-0/request
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.3393 3815/7fca20cf5740 agents/LoggingAgent/Main.cpp:321 ]: PassengerLoggingAgent online, listening at unix:/tmp/passenger.1.0.3805/generation-0/logging
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.3408 3806/7f6adb33c720 agents/Watchdog/Main.cpp:728 ]: All Phusion Passenger agents started!
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.4124 3831/7f03e4cbd720 agents/Watchdog/Main.cpp:538 ]: Options: { 'analytics_log_user' => 'nobody', 'default_group' => 'nogroup', 'default_python' => 'python', 'default_ruby' => '/home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/wrappers/ruby', 'default_user' => 'nobody', 'log_level' => '0', 'max_pool_size' => '6', 'passenger_root' => '/home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/passenger-4.0.44', 'passenger_version' => '4.0.44', 'pool_idle_time' => '300', 'temp_dir' => '/tmp', 'union_station_gateway_address' => 'gateway.unionstationapp.com', 'union_station_gateway_port' => '443', 'user_switching' => 'true', 'web_server_passenger_version' => '4.0.44', 'web_server_pid' => '3826', 'web_server_type' => 'apache', 'web_server_worker_gid' => '33', 'web_server_worker_uid' => '33' }
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.4294 3838/7fa496dad720 agents/HelperAgent/Main.cpp:649 ]: PassengerHelperAgent online, listening at unix:/tmp/passenger.1.0.3826/generation-0/request
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.4459 3846/7fea8bde0740 agents/LoggingAgent/Main.cpp:321 ]: PassengerLoggingAgent online, listening at unix:/tmp/passenger.1.0.3826/generation-0/logging
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:25.4473 3831/7f03e4cbd720 agents/Watchdog/Main.cpp:728 ]: All Phusion Passenger agents started!
[Wed Jun 11 08:38:25 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.17 Phusion_Passenger/4.0.44 configured -- resuming normal operations
App 3934 stdout: 
App 3934 stdout: require 'rails/all'... 0.450s
App 3934 stdout: Bundler.require... 1.280s
App 3934 stderr: [deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message.
App 3934 stderr: /home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/svg-graph-1.0.5/lib/SVG/Graph/Graph.rb:3: warning: class variable access from toplevel
App 3934 stdout: Application.initialize!... 3.730s
[ 2014-06-11 08:38:37.8962 3838/7fa4943ea700 Pool2/SmartSpawner.h:297 ]: Preloader for /home/openproject/openproject started on PID 3934, listening on unix:/tmp/passenger.1.0.3826/generation-0/backends/preloader.3934
App 4052 stdout: 

What are the implications? What do I need to do?

I had a private conversation with Martin to find the problem. It turned out, that the installation guide recommended to use the Gemfile.plugin file. But it should have been Gemfile.plugins (note the missing ‘s’).

Fortunately, Martin found the flaw and fixed the documentation. Thanks!

hi, we have same problem installing omniauth plugin. We have openproject installed via bitnami stack on google compute engine.
We can not install the plugin. Do you have any solution? It is fresh install of open project and we like to include omniauth in it.