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Installation</TD +><TD +WIDTH="10%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="bottom" +><A +HREF="win32.html" +>Next</A +></TD +></TR +></TABLE +><HR +ALIGN="LEFT" +WIDTH="100%"></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="SECTION" +><H1 +CLASS="SECTION" +><A +NAME="GENINSTALL" +>3.5. Installation General Notes</A +></H1 +><DIV +CLASS="SECTION" +><H2 +CLASS="SECTION" +><A +NAME="AEN837" +>3.5.1. Modifying Your Running System</A +></H2 +><P +> Bugzilla optimizes database lookups by storing all relatively static + information in the versioncache file, located in the data/ subdirectory + under your installation directory. + </P +><P +> If you make a change to the structural data in your database + (the versions table for example), or to the + <SPAN +CLASS="QUOTE" +>"constants"</SPAN +> encoded in defparams.pl, you will + need to remove the cached content from the data directory + (by doing a <SPAN +CLASS="QUOTE" +>"rm data/versioncache"</SPAN +>), or your + changes won't show up. + </P +><P +> That file gets automatically regenerated whenever it's more than an + hour old, so Bugzilla will eventually notice your changes by itself, but + generally you want it to notice right away, so that you can test things. + </P +></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="SECTION" +><H2 +CLASS="SECTION" +><A +NAME="AEN844" +>3.5.2. Upgrading From Previous Versions</A +></H2 +><P +> The developers of Bugzilla are constantly adding new tables, columns and + fields. You'll get SQL errors if you just update the code. The strategy + to update is to simply always run the checksetup.pl script whenever + you upgrade your installation of Bugzilla. If you want to see what has + changed, you can read the comments in that file, starting from the end. + </P +><P +> If you are running Bugzilla version 2.8 or lower, and wish to upgrade to + the latest version, please consult the file, "UPGRADING-pre-2.8" in the + Bugzilla root directory after untarring the archive. + </P +></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="SECTION" +><H2 +CLASS="SECTION" +><A +NAME="HTACCESS" +>3.5.3. <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>.htaccess</TT +> files and security</A +></H2 +><P +> To enhance the security of your Bugzilla installation, + Bugzilla will generate + <I +CLASS="GLOSSTERM" +><TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>.htaccess</TT +></I +> files + which the Apache webserver can use to restrict access to + the bugzilla data files. The checksetup script will + generate the <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>.htaccess</TT +> files. + + <DIV +CLASS="NOTE" +><P +></P +><TABLE +CLASS="NOTE" +WIDTH="100%" +BORDER="0" +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="25" +ALIGN="CENTER" +VALIGN="TOP" +><IMG +SRC="../images/note.gif" +HSPACE="5" +ALT="Note"></TD +><TD +ALIGN="LEFT" +VALIGN="TOP" +><P +> If you are using an alternate provider of + <SPAN +CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" +>webdot</SPAN +> services for graphing + (as described when viewing + <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>editparams.cgi</TT +> in your web + browser), you will need to change the ip address in + <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>data/webdot/.htaccess</TT +> to the ip + address of the webdot server that you are using. + </P +></TD +></TR +></TABLE +></DIV +> + + </P +><P +> If you are using Internet Information Server or other web + server which does not observe <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>.htaccess</TT +> + conventions, you can disable their creation by editing + <TT +CLASS="FILENAME" +>localconfig</TT +> and setting the + <TT +CLASS="VARNAME" +>$create_htaccess</TT +> variable to + <TT +CLASS="PARAMETER" +><I +>0</I +></TT +>. + </P +></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="SECTION" +><H2 +CLASS="SECTION" +><A +NAME="AEN865" +>3.5.4. UNIX Installation Instructions History</A +></H2 +><P +> This document was originally adapted from the Bonsai installation + instructions by Terry Weissman <terry@mozilla.org>. + </P +><P +> The February 25, 1999 re-write of this page was done by Ry4an Brase + <ry4an@ry4an.org>, with some edits by Terry Weissman, Bryce Nesbitt, + Martin Pool, & Dan Mosedale (But don't send bug reports to them; + report them using bugzilla, at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi , + project Webtools, component Bugzilla). + </P +><P +> This document was heavily modified again Wednesday, March 07 2001 to + reflect changes for Bugzilla 2.12 release by Matthew P. Barnson. The + securing MySQL section should be changed to become standard procedure + for Bugzilla installations. + </P +><P +> Finally, the README in its entirety was marked up in SGML and included into + the Guide on April 24, 2001 by Matt Barnson. Since that time, it's undergone + extensive modification as Bugzilla grew. + </P +><P +> Comments from people using this Guide for the first time are particularly welcome. + </P +></DIV +></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="NAVFOOTER" +><HR +ALIGN="LEFT" +WIDTH="100%"><TABLE +WIDTH="100%" +BORDER="0" +CELLPADDING="0" +CELLSPACING="0" +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="bsdinstall.html" +>Prev</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="34%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="index.html" +>Home</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="win32.html" +>Next</A +></TD +></TR +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="top" +>BSD Installation Notes</TD +><TD +WIDTH="34%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="installation.html" +>Up</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="top" +>Win32 Installation Notes</TD +></TR +></TABLE +></DIV +></BODY +></HTML +>
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