How to install Bugzilla under Redhat/Centos-tech04032012

Bugzilla is a Web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Released as open source software by Netscape Communications in 1998, it has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a defect tracker for both free software and proprietary products. We’re using a Redhat/Centos 5.1 for its use of Apache and MySQL configuration. Security Disable SELinux to let httpd behave freely, system-config-securitylevel-tui Note. no reboot needed To authorize the http port (80), vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables and add this line, -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT then apply, service iptables restart RPM packages Make sure thoses packages are installed (rpm -qa), – perl – httpd – mysql-server, mysql – php-mysql – gcc – cvs – patchutils To see how to install packages see pbraun.nethence.com/doc/sysutils_linux/redhat.html Besides, those perl modules need to be added, /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e ‘install “Email::Send”‘ /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e ‘install “Template”‘ /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e ‘install “Email::MIME::Modifier”‘ /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e ‘install “Date::Format”‘ Apache configuration Edit this part inside /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride Limit DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.html Order allow,deny Allow from all Note “Indexes” for docs/html/*/ and index.html for docs/html/index.html And uncomment this line, AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Start Apache, service httpd start MySQL configuration Start MySQL, service mysqld start Secure the installation, /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation or configure root’s password yourself, /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘xxxxxxx’ bugs database creation Either create a “bugs” user and “bugs” database using phpMyAdmin or this script, mysql_setpermission -u root Note phpMyAdmin lets you have a better overview of the databases, users and their privileges. To configure phpMyAdmin see pbraun.nethence.com/doc/databases/phpmyadmin.html Bugzilla installation Get the latest tarball release (today: ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-3.0.4.tar.gz). Untar the bugzilla tarball into /var/www/html and run its setup script, ls -al /var/www/html rmdir /var/www/html tar xzf bugzilla-xxx.tar.gz mv bugzilla-xxx /var/www/html cd /var/www/html ./checksetup.pl Note this creates the tables inside the “bugs” db. Make sure apache is running, service httpd status or restart it, service httpd restart Point your desktop’s web browser to the Bugzilla server, BUGZILLA_SERVER Login with the email and password you entered during checksetup.pl and edit the base url into the settings. Postinstall checks To check if sending mail works, first check you got name resolution, ping example.com then try to send a mail, echo content | mail -s subject email@example.com