Testlink - Installation on AWS CentOS

Installation Steps

• Update the system :-

            $  sudo yum install epel-release -y

      $ sudo yum update -y && sudo shutdown -r now

     After install epel , restart the system to apply the updates.

• Install a Web Server -Apache :-

             $  sudo yum install httpd -y

       It is recommended to remove/disable the Apache default welcome page in production environments.

       $ sudo sed -i 's/^/#&/g' /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

       Prevent Apache from listing web directory files to visitors:

       $ sudo sed -i "s/Options Indexes FollowSymLinks/Options FollowSymLinks/" /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

       Start the Apache service and enable it to auto-start on boot

       $  sudo systemctl start httpd.service

       $  sudo systemctl enable httpd.service

• Install Mysql Database :-

        refer Mysql Installation

• Install PHP 7.1 and Some extensions :-

      TestLink requires PHP 5.5 or later. In order to get better performance, we will install PHP 7.1 and all the necessary extension for TestLink as follows,

      $ sudo rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm

      $ sudo yum install mod_php71w php71w-mysqlnd php71w-common php71w-gd php71w-ldap php71w-cli php71w-mcrypt php71w-xml -y

      We will need to modify PHP settings to meet TestLink’s requirements as follows:

      $ sudo cp /etc/php.ini /etc/php.ini.bak

      $ sudo sed -i "s/session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440/session.gc_maxlifetime = 2880/" /etc/php.ini

      $ sudo sed -i "s/max_execution_time = 30/max_execution_time = 120/" /etc/php.ini

• Install Testlink 1.9.16 :-

       Download the testlink and unzip into /var/www/html folder.

       $ sudo cd wget https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS/testlink-code/archive/1.9.16.tar.gz

       $ sudo tar -zxvf 1.9.16.tar.gz -C /var/www/html

       $ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16

       Create a custom configuration file for Testlink 

       $ sudo cp /var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/custom_config.inc.php.example /var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/custom_config.inc.php

       Modify the custom Testlink configuration file 

       $ sudo vi /var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/custom_config.inc.php

       Find the below lines

       // $tlCfg->log_path = '/var/testlink-ga-testlink-code/logs/'; /* unix example */

       // $g_repositoryPath = '/var/testlink-ga-testlink-code/upload_area/'; /* unix example */

       Replace them with below lines

       $tlCfg->log_path = '/var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/logs/';

       $g_repositoryPath = '/var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/upload_area/';

       Create virtual Host for Testlink       

cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/httpd/conf.d/testlink.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/ ServerName testlink.example.com ServerAlias www.testlink.example.com <Directory /var/www/html/testlink-code-1.9.16/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/testlink.example.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/testlink.example.com-access_log common </VirtualHost> EOF

• Restart Apache in order to apply all above settings :-

           $ sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

• Finishing the installation :-

      When you visit http://xx.xxx.xxx.xx:80 

            you will get New Installation wizard, there you can do database setup by providing below details             

• Database Type: MySQL/MariaDB (5.6+ / 10.+)
• Database host: localhost
• Database name: testlink
• Table prefix: <LEAVE IT EMPTY>
• Database admin login: root
• Database admin password: <your-MariaDB-root-password>
• TestLink DB login: testlinkuser
• TestLink DB password: yourpassword

           Once these setup done, you can login with username & password.