From a7310a522e4ac2b24d01f0cdf44e132d0db8f73b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "lpsolit%gmail.com" <> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:34:57 +0000 Subject: Bug 399073: Remove the 'loginnetmask' parameter - Patch by Frédéric Buclin r/a=mkanat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- docs/en/xml/troubleshooting.xml | 90 +++++------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/en/xml/troubleshooting.xml b/docs/en/xml/troubleshooting.xml index 7a4a08ef5..0c20b71d1 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/troubleshooting.xml +++ b/docs/en/xml/troubleshooting.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + Troubleshooting @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ If you have made it all the way through (Installation) and (Configuration) but accessing the Bugzilla - URL doesn't work, the first thing to do is to check your webserver error + URL doesn't work, the first thing to do is to check your web server error log. For Apache, this is often located at /etc/logs/httpd/error_log. The error messages you see may be self-explanatory enough to enable you to diagnose and @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Bugzilla can also log all user-based errors (and many code-based errors) - that occur, without polluting the web server error log. To enable + that occur, without polluting the web server's error log. To enable Bugzilla error logging, create a file that Bugzilla can write to, named errorlog, in the Bugzilla data directory. Errors will be logged as they occur, and will include the type @@ -45,10 +45,10 @@
- The Apache webserver is not serving Bugzilla pages + The Apache web server is not serving Bugzilla pages After you have run checksetup.pl twice, run testserver.pl http://yoursite.yourdomain/yoururl - to confirm that your webserver is configured properly for + to confirm that your web server is configured properly for Bugzilla. @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ TEST-OK Webserver is preventing fetch of http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-t - The permissions on your library directories are set incorrectly. - They must, at the very least, be readable by the webserver user or - group. It is recommended that they be world readable. + The permissions on your library directories are set incorrectly. + They must, at the very least, be readable by the web server user or + group. It is recommended that they be world readable. @@ -139,55 +139,12 @@ TEST-OK Webserver is preventing fetch of http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-t
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- Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_NOINHERIT - - This is caused by a bug in the version of - File::Temp that is distributed with perl - 5.6.0. Many minor variations of this error have been reported: - - - Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_NOINHERIT, used -at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 208. - -Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_EXLOCK, used -at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 210. - -Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_TEMPORARY, used -at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 233. - - Numerous people have reported that upgrading to version 5.6.1 - or higher solved the problem for them. A less involved fix is to apply - the following patch, which is also - available as a patch file. - - - -
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Everybody is constantly being forced to relogin The most-likely cause is that the cookiepath parameter is not set correctly in the Bugzilla configuration. You can change this (if - you're a Bugzilla administrator) from the editparams.cgi page via the web. + you're a Bugzilla administrator) from the editparams.cgi page via the web interface. The value of the cookiepath parameter should be the actual directory @@ -256,35 +213,6 @@ at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 233.
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- Some users are constantly being forced to relogin - - First, make sure cookies are enabled in the user's browser. - - - If that doesn't fix the problem, it may be that the user's ISP - implements a rotating proxy server. This causes the user's effective IP - address (the address which the Bugzilla server perceives him coming from) - to change periodically. Since Bugzilla cookies are tied to a specific IP - address, each time the effective address changes, the user will have to - log in again. - - - If you are using 2.18 (or later), there is a - parameter called loginnetmask, which you can use to set - the number of bits of the user's IP address to require to be matched when - authenticating the cookies. If you set this to something less than 32, - then the user will be given a checkbox for Restrict this login to - my IP address on the login screen, which defaults to checked. If - they leave the box checked, Bugzilla will behave the same as it did - before, requiring an exact match on their IP address to remain logged in. - If they uncheck the box, then only the left side of their IP address (up - to the number of bits you specified in the parameter) has to match to - remain logged in. - - -
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<filename>index.cgi</filename> doesn't show up unless specified in the URL -- cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b