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+.. _windows:
+
+Windows
+#######
+
+Making Bugzilla work on Windows is more difficult than making it work on Unix,
+fewer Bugzilla developers use it and so it's less well supported. We would
+particularly recommend against doing it for a large site. However, if
+you are still determined to go ahead, here's how.
+
+.. windows-install-perl:
+
+ActiveState Perl
+================
+
+ActiveState make a popular distribution of Perl for Windows.
+
+Download the ActiveState Perl 5.12.4 or higher MSI installer from the
+`ActiveState website <http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads>`_.
+
+ActiveState Perl uses a standard Windows Installer. Install, sticking with
+the defaults, which will install Perl into :file:`C:\\Perl`. It is not
+recommended to install Perl into a directory containing a space, such as
+:file:`C:\\Program Files`.
+
+Once the install has completed, log out and log in again to pick up the
+changes to the ``PATH`` environment variable.
+
+.. _windows-install-bzfiles:
+
+Bugzilla
+========
+
+The best way to get Bugzilla is to check it out from git. Download and install
+git from the `git website <http://git-scm.com/download>`_, and then run:
+
+:command:`git clone --branch bugzilla-X.X-stable https://git.mozilla.org/bugzilla/bugzilla C:\\bugzilla`
+
+where "X.X" is the 2-digit version number of the stable release of Bugzilla
+that you want (e.g. 4.4).
+
+The rest of this documentation assumes you have installed Bugzilla into
+:file:`C:\\bugzilla`. Adjust paths appropriately if not.
+
+If it's not possible to use git (e.g. because your Bugzilla machine has no
+internet access), you can
+`download a tarball of Bugzilla <http://www.bugzilla.org/download/>`_ and
+copy it across. Bugzilla comes as a 'tarball' (:file:`.tar.gz` extension),
+which any competent Windows archiving tool should be able to open.
+
+.. windows-install-perl-modules:
+
+Perl Modules
+============
+
+Bugzilla requires a number of perl modules to be installed. They are
+available in the ActiveState repository, and are installed with the
+:file:`ppm` tool. You can either use it on the command line, as below,
+or just type :command:`ppm`, and you will get a GUI.
+
+If you use a proxy server or a firewall you may have trouble running PPM.
+This is covered in the
+`ActivePerl FAQ <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html#ppm_and_proxies>`_.
+
+Install the following modules with:
+
+:command:`ppm install <modulename>`
+
+* CGI.pm
+* Digest-SHA
+* TimeDate
+* DateTime
+* DateTime-TimeZone
+* DBI
+* Template-Toolkit
+* Email-Sender
+* Email-MIME
+* URI
+* List-MoreUtils
+* Math-Random-ISAAC
+* File-Slurp
+* JSON-XS
+* Win32
+* Win32-API
+
+The following modules enable various optional Bugzilla features; try and
+install them, but don't worry too much to begin with if you can't get them
+installed:
+
+* GD
+* Chart
+* Template-GD
+* GDTextUtil
+* GDGraph
+* MIME-tools
+* libwww-perl
+* XML-Twig
+* PatchReader
+* perl-ldap
+* Authen-SASL
+* Net-SMTP-SSL
+* RadiusPerl
+* SOAP-Lite
+* XMLRPC-Lite
+* JSON-RPC
+* Test-Taint
+* HTML-Parser
+* HTML-Scrubber
+* Encode
+* Encode-Detect
+* Email-Reply
+* HTML-FormatText-WithLinks
+* TheSchwartz
+* Daemon-Generic
+* mod_perl
+* Apache-SizeLimit
+* File-MimeInfo
+* IO-stringy
+* Cache-Memcached
+* Text-Markdown
+* File-Copy-Recursive
+* GraphViz
+
+.. warning:: These lists have been extracted from Bugzilla's source code and
+             have not been tested. Please let us know if you find errors in it
+             of any sort.
+
+.. note:: The :file:`install-module.pl` script doesn't work with ActivePerl
+   on Windows.
+
+.. _windows-config-webserver:
+
+Web Server
+==========
+
+Any web server that is capable of running CGI scripts can be made to work.
+We have specific instructions for the following:
+
+* :ref:`apache-windows`
+* :ref:`iis`
+
+.. windows-config-database:
+
+Database Engine
+===============
+
+Bugzilla supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite as database servers.
+You only require one of these systems to make use of Bugzilla. MySQL is
+most commonly used, and is the only one for which Windows instructions have
+been tested. SQLite is good for trial installations as it requires no
+setup. Configure your server according to the instructions below:
+
+* :ref:`mysql`
+* :ref:`postgresql`
+* :ref:`oracle`
+* :ref:`sqlite`
+
+.. |checksetupcommand| replace:: :command:`checksetup.pl`
+.. |testservercommand| replace:: :command:`testserver.pl http://<your-bugzilla-server>/`
+
+.. include:: installing-end.inc.rst
+
+If you don't see the main Bugzilla page, but instead see "It works!!!",
+then somehow your Apache has not picked up your modifications to
+:file:`httpd.conf`. If you are on Windows 7 or later, this could be due to a
+new feature called "VirtualStore". `This blog post
+<http://blog.netscraps.com/bugs/apache-httpd-conf-changes-ignored-in-windows-7.html>`_
+may help to solve the problem.
+
+If you get an "Internal Error..." message, it could be that
+``ScriptInterpreterSource Registry-Strict`` is not set in your
+:ref:`Apache configuration <apache-windows>`. Check again if it is set
+properly.
+
+Next, do the :ref:`essential-post-install-config`.