Webserver flexibility

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13 Jun 2005, 17:39

Hi,

I am interested in installing Mantis, but cannot maintain an apache webserver. As such, I was curious as to whether or not it is possible to have mantis work with my computer account's web service.

My account allows me to have a webpage, but it must be created within the World directory in my home folder. Any pages there with the correct permissions will be visible to the web. Now, would it be possible to somehow piggy-back mantis onto that provided webservice (i.e. to somehow just write files to the World folder instead of using a full local apache installation)?

If this is not possible, does anyone know of other bug trackers that would provide such functionality?

Thanks

thraxisp · Post by **thraxisp** » 17 Jun 2005, 17:00

Mantis will run under IIS with php.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 20 Jun 2005, 15:24

Hi,

IIS is not really an option for this project, since the tracker will be running on a mac computer. However, it seems I misunderstood the intentions of how the tracker was going to be run.

Rephrased, my question is this:
Is it possible to have mantis work with the webserver (apache, in this case) on a different computer? In this case, we have a department webserver that is maintained by a network administrator, and I want to install Mantis on my mac.

If this is possible, what are the necessary settings and configurations for both the tracker and the webserver?

Thanks

thraxisp · Post by **thraxisp** » 21 Jun 2005, 00:42

Mantis runs on a Mac. (I do my development there).

You can separate the mantis front end web server from the database if you need to. The database itself is connected via a socket to the web server. The user part of mantis is a web browser that runs on any computer on the network.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 21 Jun 2005, 16:57

Okay, so the server and database can be on separate machines. Now, my final question is this: do the mantis php files have to be on the same computer as the webserver?

From the installation guide, I don't get a clear picture of whether or not this is possible (since everything seems to be on the one server machine), and I'm not really familiar with Apache. That said, my feeling is that it won't be possible...

Just to restate: the setup I'm hoping will work is for our departmental apache server to be able to be used as the webserver, while the mantis installation is on a separate mac computer.

Thanks

thraxisp · Post by **thraxisp** » 23 Jun 2005, 12:41

The mantis files need to be visible to the file system on the machine running apache. There are ways to do this using mounts, etc. but they are probably more trouble than they are worth.

The Mac has built in Apache and php...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 23 Jun 2005, 14:29

I will probably end up using the built-in apache server. Thank you very much for your answers.