Public bug reported: On Ubuntu 16.04 after installing the Redmine project management system in package "redmine" the path for exposing plugins' assets to the web (/usr/share/redmine/public/plugin_assets/) is not writable as required by Redmine and causes a warning in the administration interface on /admin/info (code that performs this check at app/controllers/admin_controller.rb line 79).
The path needs to be writeable as plugin assets are copied here from plugins/<plugin name>/assets by the webserver dynamically (see code around /usr/share/redmine/lib/redmine/plugin.rb line 381). The workaround is doing; sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/redmine/public/plugin_assets/ -R See also the stale Debian bug; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684083 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial $ apt-cache policy redmine redmine: Installed: 3.2.1-2 Candidate: 3.2.1-2 Version table: *** 3.2.1-2 500 500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: redmine (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1699782 Title: Public plugin_assets path is not writeable after installation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/redmine/+bug/1699782/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs