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<appendix id="patches" xreflabel="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla">
<title>Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla</title>
+ <para>Are you looking for a way to put your Bugzilla into overdrive? Catch some of the niftiest tricks here in this section.</para>
+
+ <section id="rewrite" xreflabel="Apache mod_rewrite magic">
+ <title>Apache <filename>mod_rewrite</filename> magic</title>
+ <para>Apache's <filename>mod_rewrite</filename> module lets you do some truly amazing things with URL rewriting. Here are a couple of examples of what you can do.</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make it so if someone types
+ <computeroutput>http://www.foo.com/12345</computeroutput>,
+ Bugzilla spits back
+ http://www.foo.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12345. Try setting up
+ your VirtualHost section for Bugzilla with a rule like
+ this:</para>
+ <programlisting>
+<![CDATA[
+<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78>
+RewriteEngine On
+RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)$ http://foo.bar.com/show_bug.cgi?id=$1 [L,R]
+</VirtualHost>
+]]>
+ </programlisting>
+
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>There are many, many more things you can do with
+ mod_rewrite. As time goes on, I will include many more in
+ the Guide. For now, though, please refer to the mod_rewrite
+ documentation at <ulink
+ url="http://www.apache.org">http://www.apache.org</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section>
+
<section id="setperl" xreflabel="The setperl.csh Utility">
<title>The setperl.csh Utility</title>
<para> You can use the "setperl.csh" utility to quickly and