Bugzilla
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
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.