# Bugzilla

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Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development.

## Installation

You can install bugzilla from the official repositories.

It requires a bunch of perl modules to be installed too, but some required modules still need to be installed manually

## Configuration

### Module Dependencies

Make a module check first:

    # cd /srv/http/bugzilla
    # ./checksetup.pl --check-modules

Check the screen output, you will learn which module is required and which is optional, for missing modules, it will also show you the shell command to install them.

Install all required and optional modules using:

    # perl install-module.pl -all

### Missing Modules

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Reason: No bug report, if there is none file one (Discuss in Talk:Bugzilla#)
Warning: BugZilla may have missing dependencies that can effect normal usage and prevent the final configuration from completing successfully.

Because of a missing dependency, the following perl module needs to be installed for user creation and bug filing to work properly:

    # perl install-module.pl DateTime:TimeZone

Absence of Email-Abstract will generate an error on the final module check and configuration for BugZilla 5.0rc2 (in the next step). To fix this, issue the command:

    BugZilla v5.0rc2

     # perl install-module.pl Email::Abstract

There is an open bug for the above issue

### Final Module Check

Next, some more configuration to let bugzilla know how to connect mysql and create initial tables in it.

Run checksetup.pl again, this time without the –check-modules switch:

    # ./checksetup.pl

A file called "localconfig" is generated if everything is ok. Then edit it, modify some parameters there:

    $webservergroup = 'http';
    $db_driver = 'DATABASE_TO_USE_HERE';
    $db_name = 'DATABASE_NAME_HERE';
    $db_user = 'DATABASE_USER_HERE';
    $db_pass = 'YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE';

### Apache

Finally, configure apache to run bugzilla using mod_cgi (also can be configured using mod_perl, refer this for details)

First uncomment the following line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

    LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

Then add the following lines to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

    <Directory /srv/http/bugzilla>
      AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
      Options +ExecCGI
      DirectoryIndex index.cgi
      AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

Now restart apache and required modules.

Access http://server-domain-or-ip/bugzilla/ using your web browser.

## See also

- bugzilla documentation
- http://blog.samsonis.me/2009/04/bugzilla-on-archlinux/

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