Mantis Bug Tracker requires webserver, PHP and Database. In this case were used Apache webserver, MySQL database and operating system Fedora 21.

Apache can be installed as follows :: sudo yum install httpd

to start Apache type follows :: sudo systemctl start httpd

MySQL can be installed as follows :: sudo yum install mysql mysql-server

and start it by command :: sudo systemctl start mysqld

PHP can be installed as follows :: sudo yum install php php-mysql

install LAMP

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-centos-7

1. Download MantisBt from the official web site http://www.mantisbt.org/download.php
2. Copy the downloaded file to the /var/www/html/

3. Extract the file as follows :: tar -xzf mantisbt-1.2.x.tar.gz

4. You can rename the folder to something simlier. For example :: mv mantisbt-1.2.x mantisbt

5. From your web browser execute the installation scrips as follows (where localhost is your server address) :: http://localhost/mantisbt/admin/install.php

6. Follow the instructions of the install script (For more details see MantisBT manual http://www.mantisbt.org/manual/admin.install.new.html)
7. Once it is installed, you can log to the mantisBT as administrator (Username: 'administrator' Password: 'root')

note: In case, there is MantisBT timezone warning, you have to specify date.timezone in the /etc/php.ini file. For example for Prague we modify section [date] in php.ini as follows :: [Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions ; http://php.net/date.timezone date.timezone = "Europe/Prague"

To apply the changes, you must restart apache. You can do this as follows :: sudo systemctl restart httpd

See list of supported timezones: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

To ensure correct functionality of SOAP API you must install php extension php-soap, for example as follows :: sudo yum install php-soap

After this install is necessary to restart apache server as follows :: sudo systemctl restart httpd

This prevents MantisBT error 'Error Type: SYSTEM NOTICE'

SOAP API documentation :: https://bugs.centos.org/api/soap/mantisconnect.php?wsdl

Python SOAP API example using suds:

from suds.client import Client
url = "https://bugs.centos.org/api/soap/mantisconnect.php?wsdl"
client = Client(url)
bug_id = 1234
result = client.service.mc_issue_get("username", "password", bug_id)