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diff --git a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml index 6f8dc0536..27f57d040 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml +++ b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> --> -<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.153 2008/04/04 06:48:23 lpsolit%gmail.com Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.146 2008/04/04 06:48:16 justdave%bugzilla.org Exp $ --> <chapter id="installing-bugzilla"> <title>Installing Bugzilla</title> @@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Apache::DBI + (&min-apache-dbi-ver;) for mod_perl2 + </para> + </listitem> </orderedlist> </para> @@ -649,9 +655,13 @@ <para>Bugzilla also requires a more up-to-date version of the CGI perl module to be installed, version &min-mp-cgi-ver; as opposed to &min-cgi-ver; </para> + + <para>Finally, Bugzilla also requires <literal>Apache::DBI</literal> + (&min-apache-dbi-ver;) to be installed as well.</para> </section> </section> + <section id="configuration"> <title>Configuration</title> @@ -1113,7 +1123,7 @@ </warning> <programlisting> - PerlSwitches -I/var/www/html/bugzilla -I/var/www/html/bugzilla/lib -w -T + PerlSwitches -I/var/www/html/bugzilla -w -T PerlConfigRequire /var/www/html/bugzilla/mod_perl.pl </programlisting> </step> @@ -1317,6 +1327,7 @@ c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -xc:\bugzilla -wT "%s" %s </section> </section> + <section id="extraconfig"> <title>Optional Additional Configuration</title> @@ -1371,6 +1382,54 @@ c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -xc:\bugzilla -wT "%s" %s </note> </section> + <section> + <title>Dependency Charts</title> + + <para>As well as the text-based dependency trees, Bugzilla also + supports a graphical view of dependency relationships, using a + package called 'dot'. + Exactly how this works is controlled by the 'webdotbase' parameter, + which can have one of three values: + </para> + + <para> + <orderedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + A complete file path to the command 'dot' (part of + <ulink url="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</ulink>) + will generate the graphs locally + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A URL prefix pointing to an installation of the webdot package will + generate the graphs remotely + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + A blank value will disable dependency graphing. + </para> + </listitem> + </orderedlist> + </para> + + <para>The easiest way to get this working is to install + <ulink url="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</ulink>. If you + do that, you need to + <ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_imap.html">enable + server-side image maps</ulink> in Apache. + Alternatively, you could set up a webdot server, or use the AT&T + public webdot server. This is the default for the webdotbase param, + but it's often overloaded and slow. Note that AT&T's server + won't work + if Bugzilla is only accessible using HARTS. + <emphasis>Editor's note: What the heck is HARTS? Google doesn't know... + </emphasis> + </para> + </section> + <section id="installation-whining-cron"> <title>The Whining Cron</title> @@ -1435,7 +1494,229 @@ c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -xc:\bugzilla -wT "%s" %s </para> </note> </section> + + <section id="patch-viewer"> + <title>Patch Viewer</title> + + <para> + Patch Viewer is the engine behind Bugzilla's graphical display of + code patches. You can integrate this with copies of the + <filename>cvs</filename>, <filename>lxr</filename> and + <filename>bonsai</filename> tools if you have them, by giving + the locations of your installation of these tools in + <filename>editparams.cgi</filename>. + </para> + <para> + Patch Viewer also optionally will use the + <filename>cvs</filename>, <filename>diff</filename> and + <filename>interdiff</filename> + command-line utilities if they exist on the system. + Interdiff can be obtained from + <ulink url="http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/"/>. + If these programs are not in the system path, you can configure + their locations in <filename>localconfig</filename>. + </para> + + + </section> + + <section id="bzradius"> + <title>RADIUS Authentication</title> + + <para>RADIUS authentication is a module for Bugzilla's plugin + authentication architecture. + Most caveats that apply to LDAP authentication apply to RADIUS + authentication as well. + </para> + + <para>Parameters required to use RADIUS Authentication:</para> + + <variablelist> + <varlistentry id="param-user_verify_class_for_radius"> + <term>user_verify_class</term> + <listitem> + <para>If you want to list <quote>RADIUS</quote> here, + make sure to have set up the other parameters listed below. + Unless you have other (working) authentication methods listed as + well, you may otherwise not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once + you log out. + If this happens to you, you will need to manually edit + <filename>data/params</filename> and set user_verify_class to + <quote>DB</quote>. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-RADIUS_server"> + <term>RADIUS_server</term> + <listitem> + <para>This parameter should be set to the name (and optionally the + port) of your RADIUS server. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-RADIUS_secret"> + <term>RADIUS_secret</term> + <listitem> + <para>This parameter should be set to the RADIUS server's secret. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-RADIUS_email_suffix"> + <term>RADIUS_email_suffix</term> + <listitem> + <para>Bugzilla needs an e-mail address for each user account. + Therefore, it needs to determine the e-mail address corresponding + to a RADIUS user. + Bugzilla offers only a simple way to do this: it can concatenate + a suffix to the RADIUS user name to convert it into an e-mail + address. + You can specify this suffix in the RADIUS_email_suffix parameter. + </para> + <para>If this simple solution does not work for you, you'll + probably need to modify + <filename>Bugzilla/Auth/Verify/RADIUS.pm</filename> to match your + requirements. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> + + </section> + + <section id="bzldap"> + <title>LDAP Authentication</title> + + <para>LDAP authentication is a module for Bugzilla's plugin + authentication architecture. + </para> + + <para> + The existing authentication + scheme for Bugzilla uses email addresses as the primary user ID, and a + password to authenticate that user. All places within Bugzilla where + you need to deal with user ID (e.g assigning a bug) use the email + address. The LDAP authentication builds on top of this scheme, rather + than replacing it. The initial log in is done with a username and + password for the LDAP directory. Bugzilla tries to bind to LDAP using + those credentials, and if successful, try to map this account to a + Bugzilla account. If a LDAP mail attribute is defined, the value of this + attribute is used, otherwise emailsuffix parameter is appended to LDAP + username to form a full email address. If an account for this address + already exists in your Bugzilla system, it will log in to that account. + If no account for that email address exists, one is created at the time + of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the "displayName" + or "cn" attribute to determine the user's full name.) After + authentication, all other user-related tasks are still handled by email + address, not LDAP username. You still assign bugs by email address, query + on users by email address, etc. + </para> + + <caution> + <para>Because the Bugzilla account is not created until the first time + a user logs in, a user who has not yet logged is unknown to Bugzilla. + This means they cannot be used as an assignee or QA contact (default or + otherwise), added to any cc list, or any other such operation. One + possible workaround is the <filename>bugzilla_ldapsync.rb</filename> + script in the + <glossterm linkend="gloss-contrib"><filename class="directory">contrib</filename></glossterm> directory. Another possible solution is fixing + <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201069">bug + 201069</ulink>. + </para> + </caution> + + <para>Parameters required to use LDAP Authentication:</para> + + <variablelist> + <varlistentry id="param-user_verify_class_for_ldap"> + <term>user_verify_class</term> + <listitem> + <para>If you want to list <quote>LDAP</quote> here, + make sure to have set up the other parameters listed below. + Unless you have other (working) authentication methods listed as + well, you may otherwise not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once + you log out. + If this happens to you, you will need to manually edit + <filename>data/params</filename> and set user_verify_class to + <quote>DB</quote>. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-LDAPserver"> + <term>LDAPserver</term> + <listitem> + <para>This parameter should be set to the name (and optionally the + port) of your LDAP server. If no port is specified, it assumes + the default LDAP port of 389. + </para> + <para>Ex. <quote>ldap.company.com</quote> + or <quote>ldap.company.com:3268</quote> + </para> + <para>You can also specify a LDAP URI, so as to use other + protocols, such as LDAPS or LDAPI. If port was not specified in + the URI, the default is either 389 or 636 for 'LDAP' and 'LDAPS' + schemes respectively. + </para> + <para>Ex. <quote>ldap://ldap.company.com</quote>, + <quote>ldaps://ldap.company.com</quote> or + <quote>ldapi://%2fvar%2flib%2fldap_sock</quote> + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-LDAPbinddn"> + <term>LDAPbinddn [Optional]</term> + <listitem> + <para>Some LDAP servers will not allow an anonymous bind to search + the directory. If this is the case with your configuration you + should set the LDAPbinddn parameter to the user account Bugzilla + should use instead of the anonymous bind. + </para> + <para>Ex. <quote>cn=default,cn=user:password</quote></para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-LDAPBaseDN"> + <term>LDAPBaseDN</term> + <listitem> + <para>The LDAPBaseDN parameter should be set to the location in + your LDAP tree that you would like to search for email addresses. + Your uids should be unique under the DN specified here. + </para> + <para>Ex. <quote>ou=People,o=Company</quote></para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-LDAPuidattribute"> + <term>LDAPuidattribute</term> + <listitem> + <para>The LDAPuidattribute parameter should be set to the attribute + which contains the unique UID of your users. The value retrieved + from this attribute will be used when attempting to bind as the + user to confirm their password. + </para> + <para>Ex. <quote>uid</quote></para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="param-LDAPmailattribute"> + <term>LDAPmailattribute</term> + <listitem> + <para>The LDAPmailattribute parameter should be the name of the + attribute which contains the email address your users will enter + into the Bugzilla login boxes. + </para> + <para>Ex. <quote>mail</quote></para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> + + </section> + <section id="apache-addtype"> <title>Serving Alternate Formats with the right MIME type</title> @@ -1540,15 +1821,6 @@ AddType application/rdf+xml .rdf</screen> The following instructions assume that you are using version 5.8.1 of ActiveState. </para> - - <note> - <para> - These instructions are for 32-bit versions of Windows. If you are - using a 64-bit version of Windows, you will need to install 32-bit - Perl in order to install the 32-bit modules as described below. - </para> - </note> - </section> <section id="win32-perl-modules"> @@ -1572,16 +1844,9 @@ C:\perl> <command>ppm install <module name></command> </para> <programlisting> -<command>ppm repo add landfill http://www.landfill.bugzilla.org/ppm/</command> - </programlisting> - <note> - <para> - In versions prior to 5.8.8 build 819 of PPM the command is - <programlisting> <command>ppm repository add landfill http://www.landfill.bugzilla.org/ppm/</command> - </programlisting> - </para> - </note> + </programlisting> + <note> <para> The PPM repository stores modules in 'packages' that may have @@ -1880,12 +2145,10 @@ pid-file=/home/foo/mymysql/the.pid <section> <title>Perl</title> - <para> - On the extremely rare chance that you don't have Perl on + <para>On the extremely rare chance that you don't have Perl on the machine, you will have to build the sources yourself. The following commands should get your system - installed with your own personal version of Perl: - </para> + installed with your own personal version of Perl:</para> <screen> <prompt>bash$</prompt> @@ -1900,23 +2163,139 @@ pid-file=/home/foo/mymysql/the.pid <command>make && make test && make install</command> </screen> - <para> - Once you have Perl installed into a directory (probably - in <filename class="directory">~/perl/bin</filename>), you will need to - install the Perl Modules, described below. - </para> + <para>Once you have Perl installed into a directory (probably + in <filename class="directory">~/perl/bin</filename>), you'll have to + change the locations on the scripts, which is detailed later on + this page.</para> </section> <section id="install-perlmodules-nonroot"> <title>Perl Modules</title> - <para> - Installing the Perl modules as a non-root user is accomplished by - running the <filename>install-module.pl</filename> - script. For more details on this script, see - <ulink url="api/install-module.html"><filename>install-module.pl</filename> - documentation</ulink> - </para> + <para>Installing the Perl modules as a non-root user is probably the + hardest part of the process. There are two different methods: a + completely independant Perl with its own modules, or personal + modules using the current (root installed) version of Perl. The + independant method takes up quite a bit of disk space, but is + less complex, while the mixed method only uses as much space as the + modules themselves, but takes more work to setup.</para> + + <section> + <title>The Independant Method</title> + + <para>The independant method requires that you install your own + personal version of Perl, as detailed in the previous section. Once + installed, you can start the CPAN shell with the following + command:</para> + + <para> + <screen> + <prompt>bash$</prompt> + <command>/home/foo/perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'</command> + </screen> + </para> + + <para>And then:</para> + + <para> + <screen> + <prompt>cpan></prompt> + <command>install Bundle::Bugzilla</command> + </screen> + </para> + + <para>With this method, module installation will usually go a lot + smoother, but if you have any hang-ups, you can consult the next + section.</para> + </section> + + <section> + <title>The Mixed Method</title> + + <para>First, you'll need to configure CPAN to + install modules in your home directory. The CPAN FAQ says the + following on this issue:</para> + + <para> + <programlisting> +5) I am not root, how can I install a module in a personal directory? + + You will most probably like something like this: + + o conf makepl_arg "LIB=~/myperl/lib \ + INSTALLMAN1DIR=~/myperl/man/man1 \ + INSTALLMAN3DIR=~/myperl/man/man3" + install Sybase::Sybperl + + You can make this setting permanent like all "o conf" settings with "o conf commit". + + You will have to add ~/myperl/man to the MANPATH environment variable and also tell your Perl programs to + look into ~/myperl/lib, e.g. by including + + use lib "$ENV{HOME}/myperl/lib"; + + or setting the PERL5LIB environment variable. + + Another thing you should bear in mind is that the UNINST parameter should never be set if you are not root.</programlisting> + </para> + + <para>So, you will need to create a Perl directory in your home + directory, as well as the <filename class="directory">lib</filename>, + <filename class="directory">man</filename>, + <filename class="directory">man/man1</filename>, and + <filename class="directory">man/man3</filename> directories in that + Perl directory. Set the MANPATH variable and PERL5LIB variable, so + that the installation of the modules goes smoother. (Setting + UNINST=0 in your "make install" options, on the CPAN first-time + configuration, is also a good idea.)</para> + + <para>After that, go into the CPAN shell:</para> + + <para> + <screen> + <prompt>bash$</prompt> + <command>perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'</command> + </screen> + </para> + + <para>From there, you will need to type in the above "o conf" command + and commit the changes. Then you can run through the installation:</para> + + <para> + <screen> + <prompt>cpan></prompt> + <command>install Bundle::Bugzilla</command> + </screen> + </para> + + <para>Most of the module installation process should go smoothly. However, + you may have some problems with Template. When you first start, you will + want to try to install Template with the XS Stash options on. If this + doesn't work, it may spit out C compiler error messages and croak back + to the CPAN shell prompt. So, redo the install, and turn it off. (In fact, + say no to all of the Template questions.) It may also start failing on a + few of the tests. If the total tests passed is a reasonable figure (90+%), + force the install with the following command:</para> + + <para> + <screen> + <prompt>cpan></prompt> + <command>force install Template</command> + </screen> + </para> + + <para>You may also want to install the other optional modules:</para> + + <screen> + <prompt>cpan></prompt> + <command>install GD</command> + <prompt>cpan></prompt> + <command>install Chart::Base</command> + <prompt>cpan></prompt> + <command>install MIME::Parser</command> + </screen> + + </section> </section> <section> @@ -1961,16 +2340,30 @@ pid-file=/home/foo/mymysql/the.pid <section> <title>Bugzilla</title> + <para>If you had to install Perl modules as a non-root user + (<xref linkend="install-perlmodules-nonroot" />) or to non-standard + directories, you will need to change the scripts, setting the correct + location of the Perl modules:</para> + <para> - When you run <command>./checksetup.pl</command> to create + <programlisting>perl -pi -e + 's@use strict\;@use strict\; use lib \"/home/foo/perl/lib\"\;@' + *cgi *pl Bug.pm processmail syncshadowdb</programlisting> + + Change <filename class="directory">/home/foo/perl/lib</filename> to + your personal Perl library directory. You can probably skip this + step if you are using the independant method of Perl module + installation. + </para> + + <para>When you run <command>./checksetup.pl</command> to create the <filename>localconfig</filename> file, it will list the Perl modules it finds. If one is missing, go back and double-check the - module installation from <xref linkend="install-perlmodules-nonroot"/>, - then delete the <filename>localconfig</filename> file and try again. - </para> + module installation from the CPAN shell, then delete the + <filename>localconfig</filename> file and try again.</para> <warning> - <para>One option in <filename>localconfig</filename> you + <para>The one option in <filename>localconfig</filename> you might have problems with is the web server group. If you can't successfully browse to the <filename>index.cgi</filename> (like a Forbidden error), you may have to relax your permissions, |