3. Run Tuleap

Note

Please read and follow instructions of both Clone Tuleap Sources and Install Docker Engine & Docker Compose sections before executing this one.

3.1. Mandatory development dependencies

You will need the following tools to develop on Tuleap, please refer to their respective documentation for installation instructions:

  • make

  • scss-lint

  • nodejs >= v6.x

  • npm >= v6.0

  • composer

    Important

    By default, composer installs itself in the local directory as composer.phar.

    However we require that composer command is available in your executable path. This can be done by executing the following command during the installation steps:

    sudo php composer-setup.php --filename=composer --install-dir=/usr/local/bin

3.2. First start of Tuleap

$ cd /path/to/tuleap
$ make composer
$ npm run build
$ make dev-setup
$ make start
$ make post-checkout

Note

docker will download base images for mysql, tuleap, … Please be patient!

Then you need to know the IP address of the web container, with docker inspect tuleap-web | grep '"IPAddress"' and edit (as root) the /etc/hosts file: 172.17.0.4    tuleap-web.tuleap-aio-dev.docker.

Now open your browser and go to https://tuleap-web.tuleap-aio-dev.docker/. You should see the homepage of your Tuleap instance. You can connect with admin account, the password will be given by make show-passwords.

And voila, your server is up and running!

It's Magic!

3.3. Descriptions of commands

  • make dev-setup: This command generates some needed passwords (mysql, ldap, …) and creates data containers. Those data containers are used as volumes to persist data (files, db, …). This command needs to be run only once.

  • make start: This command is a wrapper around docker-compose up. It starts 3 containers: web for the front end, ldap to manage users in an OpenLDAP server, and db for the mysql server.

    You can issue the following command in order to check that all containers are started:

    $ docker ps --format "{{.ID}}: {{.Names}} — {{.Image}} {{.Ports}}"
149428f796ea: tuleap-web — enalean/tuleap-aio-dev:nodb 22/tcp, 80/tcp, 443/tcp
7cd1e645b3a9: tuleap_ldap_1 — enalean/ldap:latest 389/tcp, 636/tcp
9d026f381fbf: tuleap_db_1 — mysql:5.5 3306/tcp

  • make post-checkout: Install npm dependencies, generate the javascript and CSS files to be used by the browser, deploy gettext translation… You need to run this command everytime you switch a branch.

Note

Docker images are read-only, and every modification to the OS will be lost at reboot. If you need to add/change anything and make it persistant, fork and amend the Dockerfile. Everything but the OS (tuleap config, database, user home) is saved in docker volumes held by tuleap_data.

3.4. Pro-tips

If you need to connect to the server you can run:

$ docker exec -ti tuleap-web bash
$> export TERM=linux

And if you need to connect to the database:

$ docker run -it --link tuleap_db_1:mysql --rm mysql sh -c 'exec mysql -h"$MYSQL_PORT_3306_TCP_ADDR" -P"$MYSQL_PORT_3306_TCP_PORT" -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ENV_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" tuleap'

3.5. Troubleshooting

If your browser cannot manage to reach https://tuleap-web.tuleap-aio-dev.docker/:

  • Check that all containers are up and running with docker ps. If it is not the case, inspect logs docker-compose logs db or docker-compose logs web.
  • Check that apache serves files by executing a wget -O - http://localhost/ once connected to the web container (see Pro-tips). If you see a long html output that contains typical Tuleap homepage, then it means that there is an issue with the dns. (You may need to yum install wget first).
  • Check that you can resolve tuleap-web.tuleap-aio-dev.docker: dig '*.docker', dig '*.tuleap-aio-dev.docker' and dig 'tuleap-web.tuleap-aio-dev.docker' should return a suitable answer (typically 172.17.42.4 for the web container, but it may vary).

If you don’t receive email, this is because we configured postfix to not deliver emails by default. You may need to manually add the emails you use for your development:

$ docker exec -ti tuleap-web bash
$> vi /data/etc/email_whitelist # enter your email
$> ./whitelist_emails.sh
$> service postfix reload