Installing Bugzilla

Bugzilla¶

• Online bugzilla installation link is http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.18/html/installation.html
• Useful resource for upgrading bugzilla: http://www.dracoware.com/blog/2007/06/12/how-to-upgrade-to-bugzilla-30/

Required packages for installing bugzilla¶

• Perl
• MySQL
• Webserver
• Bugzilla
• Install Perl modules
• Install a Mail Transfer Agent

Installation notes¶

• apt-get install bugzilla3 to install bugzilla from debian repo
• in our case, we have installed from debian repo, and not from source tarball; so there might be some differences in the steps mentioned in the document
• previously bugzilla service was provided by Embedded server, but we migrated it to the debian server
• the main configuration directory is /etc/bugzilla3
• important files are dbconfig-params, localconfig, params
• other related directory is /usr/share/bugzilla3
• if there is any problem viewing the bugzilla page, there might be problem with permission or the bugzilla apache configuration file (/etc/apache2/conf.d/bugzilla), which looks like this including the RedirectMatch directive:

Alias /bugzilla /usr/share/bugzilla3/web/
Alias /bugzilla3 /usr/share/bugzilla3/web/

<Directory "/usr/share/bugzilla3/web">
        AllowOverride none
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
 </Directory>

Alias /cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla3">
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
        DirectoryIndex index.cgi
        AllowOverride None
         Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +FollowSymLinks
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

RedirectMatch ^/cgi-bin/bugzilla3[/]*$ /cgi-bin/bugzilla3/index.cgi
 
<Directory "/var/lib/bugzilla3/data">
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>