Bugzilla has been successfully installed under many different operating systems including almost all Unix clones and Microsoft Windows. Many operating systems have utilities that make installation easier or quirks that make it harder. We have tried to collect that information in , so be sure to check out that section before you start your installation. Windows is one of those operating systems that has many quirks and is not yet officially supported by the Bugzilla team. If you wish to install Bugzilla on Windows, be sure to see . While installing Bugzilla, it is a good idea to ensure that there is some kind of firewall between you and the rest of the Internet as your machine may be insecure for periods during the install. Many installation steps require an active Internet connection to complete, but you must take care to ensure that at no point is your machine vulnerable to an attack. This guide assumes that you already have your operating system installed, network configured, and have administrative access to the shell on the machine you are installing Bugzilla onto. It is possible to install and run Bugzilla without administrative access, but you have to either make sure all the required software is installed or get somebody with administrative access to install it for you. The listing below is a basic step-by-step list. More information can be found in the sections below. Minimum versions will be included in parenthesis where appropriate. Install MySQL (&min-mysql-ver;) Install Perl (&min-perl-ver;) Install Perl Modules Install a Webserver Put Bugzilla in the Webspace Setup the MySQL Database

Visit the MySQL homepage at to grab and install the latest stable release of the server. Many of the binary versions of MySQL store their data files in /var. On some Unix systems, this is part of a smaller root partition, and may not have room for your bug database. You can set the data directory as an option to configure if you build MySQL from source yourself. If you install from something other than a packaging/installation system (such as .rpm, .dep, .exe, or .msi) you will need to configure your system so the MySQL server daemon will come back up whenever your machine reboots. If you wish to have attachments larger than 64K, you will have to configure MySQL to accept large packets. This is done by adding the text in to your my.conf file. There is also a parameter in Bugzilla for setting the maximum allowable attachment size. You should set this value to be slightly larger than that parameter.

[mysqld] # Allow packets up to 1M set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1M

If you are running Bugzilla and MySQL on the same machine, you may also wish to utilize the skip-networking option as mentioned in for the added security.

Any machine that doesn't have Perl on it is a sad machine indeed. Perl can be got in source form from . There are also binary versions available for many platforms, most of which are linked to from perl.com. Although Bugzilla runs with perl &min-perl-ver;, it's a good idea to be up to the very latest version if you can when running Bugzilla. As of this writing, that is Perl version &newest-perl-ver;.

Perl modules can be found using CPAN on Unix based systems or PPM on Win32. The root servers have a real tendency to bog down, so please use mirrors. Good instuctions can be found for using each of these services on their respective websites. The basics can be found in for CPAN and for PPM. The easy way: bash# perl -MCPAN -e 'install "<modulename>"' Or the hard way: bash# tar xzvf <module>.tar.gz bash# cd <module> bash# perl Makefile.PL bash# make bash# make test bash# make install This assumes that you've already downloaded the <module>.tar.gz to the current working directory. The process of untaring the module as defined in will create the <module> directory. Many people complain that Perl modules will not install for them. Most times, the error messages complain that they are missing a file in @INC. Virtually every time, this error is due to permissions being set too restrictively for you to compile Perl modules or not having the necessary Perl development libraries installed on your system. Consult your local UNIX systems administrator for help solving these permissions issues; if you are the local UNIX sysadmin, please consult the newsgroup/mailing list for further assistance or hire someone to help you out. Perl Modules (minimum version): Bundle::Bugzilla (Will allow you to skip the rest) AppConfig (&min-appconfig-ver;) CGI (&min-cgi-ver;) Data::Dumper (&min-data-dumper-ver;) Date::Format (&min-date-format-ver;) DBI (&min-dbi-ver;) DBD::mysql (&min-dbd-mysql-ver;) File::Spec (&min-file-spec-ver;) File::Temp (&min-file-temp-ver;) Template Toolkit (&min-template-ver;) Text::Wrap (&min-text-wrap-ver;) and, optionally: GD (&min-gd-ver;) for bug charting Chart::Base (&min-chart-base-ver;) for bug charting XML::Parser (&min-xml-parser-ver;) for the XML interface GD::Graph (&min-gd-graph-ver;) for bug charting GD::Text::Align (&min-gd-text-align-ver;) for bug charting MIME::Parser (&min-mime-parser-ver;) for the email interface

If you are running at least perl 5.6.1, you can save yourself a lot of time by using Bundle::Bugzilla. This bundle contains every module required to get Bugzilla running. It does not include GD and friends, but these are not required for a base install and can always be added later if the need arises. Assuming your perl was installed with CPAN (most unix installations are), using Bundle::Bugzilla is really easy. Simply follow along with the commands below. bash# perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.63) ReadLine support enabled cpan> At this point, unless you've used CPAN on this machine before, you'll have to go through a series of configuration steps.

Dependency for Template Toolkit. We probably don't need to specifically check for it anymore.

The CGI module parses form elements and cookies and does many other usefule things. It come as a part of recent perl distributions, but Bugzilla needs a fairly new version. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

The Data::Dumper module provides data structure persistence for Perl (similar to Java's serialization). It comes with later sub-releases of Perl 5.004, but a re-installation just to be sure it's available won't hurt anything. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

Many of the more common date/time/calendar related Perl modules have been grouped into a bundle similar to the MySQL modules bundle. This bundle is stored on the CPAN under the name TimeDate. The component module we're most interested in is the Date::Format module, but installing all of them is probably a good idea anyway. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

The DBI module is a generic Perl module used the MySQL-related modules. As long as your Perl installation was done correctly the DBI module should be a breeze. It's a mixed Perl/C module, but Perl's MakeMaker system simplifies the C compilation greatly. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

The Perl/MySQL interface requires a few mutually-dependent Perl modules. These modules are grouped together into the the Msql-Mysql-modules package. The MakeMaker process will ask you a few questions about the desired compilation target and your MySQL installation. For most of the questions the provided default will be adequate, but when asked if your desired target is the MySQL or mSQL packages, you should select the MySQL related ones. Later you will be asked if you wish to provide backwards compatibility with the older MySQL packages; you should answer YES to this question. The default is NO. A host of 'localhost' should be fine and a testing user of 'test' with a null password should find itself with sufficient access to run tests on the 'test' database which MySQL created upon installation. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

File::Spec is a perl module that allows file operations, such as generating full path names, to work cross platform. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Page: Documentation:

File::Temp is used to generate a temporary filename that is guaranteed to be unique. It comes as a standard part of perl CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

When you install Template Toolkit, you'll get asked various questions about features to enable. The defaults are fine, except that it is recommended you use the high speed XS Stash of the Template Toolkit, in order to achieve best performance. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

Text::Wrap is designed to proved intelligent text wrapping. CPAN Download Page: Documentation:

The GD library was written by Thomas Boutell a long while ago to programmatically generate images in C. Since then it's become the defacto standard for programmatic image construction. The Perl bindings to it found in the GD library are used on millions of web pages to generate graphs on the fly. That's what Bugzilla will be using it for so you must install it if you want any of the graphing to work. The Perl GD library requires some other libraries that may or may not be installed on your system, including libpng and libgd. The full requirements are listed in the Perl GD library README. If compiling GD fails, it's probably because you're missing a required library. The version of the GD perl module you need is very closely tied to the libgd version installed on your system. If you have a version 1.x of libgd the 2.x versions of the GD perl module won't work for you. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

The Chart module provides Bugzilla with on-the-fly charting abilities. It can be installed in the usual fashion after it has been fetched from CPAN. Note that earlier versions that 0.99c used GIFs, which are no longer supported by the latest versions of GD. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link:

XML::Parser is used by the importxml.pl script. You only need it if you are going to be importing bugs (such as for bug moving). XML::Parser requires that the expat library is already installed on your machine. CPAN Download Page: Documentation:

In addition to GD listed above, the reporting interface of Bugzilla needs to have the GD::Graph module installed. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

GD::Text::Align, as the name implies, is used to draw aligned strings of text. It is needed by the reporting interface. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Page: Documentation:

MIME::Parser is only needed if you want to use the e-mail interface located in the contrib directory. CPAN Download Page: PPM Download Link: Documentation:

You have freedom of choice here, pretty much any web server that is capable of running CGI scripts will work. has more information about configuring web servers to work with Bugzilla. We strongly recommend Apache as the web server to use. The Bugzilla Guide installation instructions, in general, assume you are using Apache. If you have got Bugzilla working using another webserver, please share your experiences with us by filing a bug in &bzg-bugs;.

You should untar the Bugzilla files into a directory that you're willing to make writable by the default web server user (probably nobody). You may decide to put the files in the main web space for your web server or perhaps in /usr/local with a symbolic link in the web space that points to the Bugzilla directory. If you symlink the bugzilla directory into your Apache's HTML hierarchy, you may receive Forbidden errors unless you add the FollowSymLinks directive to the <Directory> entry for the HTML root in httpd.conf. Once all the files are in a web accessible directory, make that directory writable by your webserver's user. This is a temporary step until you run the post-install checksetup.pl script, which locks down your installation. The default Bugzilla distribution is not designed to be placed in a cgi-bin directory (this includes any directory which is configured using the ScriptAlias directive of Apache). This will probably change as part of bug 44659.

After you've gotten all the software installed and working you're ready to start preparing the database for its life as the back end to a high quality bug tracker. This first thing you'll want to do is make sure you've given the root user a password as suggested in . For clarity, these instructions will assume that your MySQL user for Bugzilla will be bugs_user, the database will be called bugs_db and the password for the bugs_user user is bugs_password. You should, of course, substitute the values you intend to use for your site. Most people use bugs for both the user and database name. Next, we use an SQL GRANT command to create a bugs_user user, and grant sufficient permissions for checksetup.pl, which we'll use later, to work its magic. This also restricts the bugs_user user to operations within a database called bugs_db, and only allows the account to connect from localhost. Modify it to reflect your setup if you will be connecting from another machine or as a different user. mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,ALTER,CREATE, DROP,REFERENCES ON bugs_db.* TO bugs_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'bugs_password'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; If you are using MySQL 4, the bugs user also needs to be granted the LOCK TABLES and CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES permissions.

Next, run the magic checksetup.pl script. (Many thanks to Holger Schurig for writing this script!) This script is designed to make sure your perl modules are the correct version and your MySQL database and other configuration options are consistent with the Bugzilla CGI files. It will make sure Bugzilla files and directories have reasonable permissions, set up the data directory, and create all the MySQL tables. bash# ./checksetup.pl The first time you run it, it will create a file called localconfig. This file contains a variety of settings you may need to tweak including how Bugzilla should connect to the MySQL database. The connection settings include: server's host: just use localhost if the MySQL server is local database name: bugs_db if you're following these directions MySQL username: bugs_user if you're following these directions Password for the bugs_user MySQL account; (bugs_password above) Once you are happy with the settings, su to the user your web server runs as, and re-run checksetup.pl. (Note: on some security-conscious systems, you may need to change the login shell for the webserver account before you can do this.) On this second run, it will create the database and an administrator account for which you will be prompted to provide information. The checksetup.pl script is designed so that you can run it at any time without causing harm. You should run it after any upgrade to Bugzilla.

You should run through the parameters on the Edit Parameters page (link in the footer) and set them all to appropriate values. They key parameters are documented in .

As well as the text-based dependency graphs, Bugzilla also supports dependency graphing, using a package called 'dot'. Exactly how this works is controlled by the 'webdotbase' parameter, which can have one of three values: A complete file path to the command 'dot' (part of GraphViz) will generate the graphs locally A URL prefix pointing to an installation of the webdot package will generate the graphs remotely A blank value will disable dependency graphing. So, to get this working, install GraphViz. If you do that, you need to enable server-side image maps in Apache. Alternatively, you could set up a webdot server, or use the AT&T public webdot server (the default for the webdotbase param). Note that AT&T's server won't work if Bugzilla is only accessible using HARTS.

As long as you installed the GD and Graph::Base Perl modules you might as well turn on the nifty Bugzilla bug reporting graphs. Add a cron entry like this to run collectstats.pl daily at 5 after midnight: bash# crontab -e 5 0 * * * cd <your-bugzilla-directory> ; ./collectstats.pl After two days have passed you'll be able to view bug graphs from the Bug Reports page.

By now you have a fully functional Bugzilla, but what good are bugs if they're not annoying? To help make those bugs more annoying you can set up Bugzilla's automatic whining system to complain at engineers which leave their bugs in the NEW state without triaging them. This can be done by adding the following command as a daily crontab entry (for help on that see that crontab man page): cd <your-bugzilla-directory> ; ./whineatnews.pl Depending on your system, crontab may have several manpages. The following command should lead you to the most useful page for this purpose: man 5 crontab

LDAP authentication has been rewritten for the 2.18 release of Bugzilla. It no longer requires the Mozilla::LDAP module and now uses Net::LDAP instead. This rewrite was part of a larger landing that allowed for additional authentication schemes to be easily added (bug 180642). This patch originally landed in 21-Mar-2003 and was included in the 2.17.4 development release. ]]> 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. This then fetches the email address from LDAP and authenticates seamlessly in the standard Bugzilla authentication scheme using this 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. 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 bugzilla_ldapsync.rb script in the contrib directory. Another possible solution is fixing bug 201069. Parameters required to use LDAP Authentication: loginmethod This parameter should be set to LDAP only if you will be using an LDAP directory for authentication. If you set this param to LDAP but fail to set up the other parameters listed below you will not be able to log back in to Bugzilla one you log out. If this happens to you, you will need to manually edit data/params and set loginmethod to DB. LDAPserver 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. Ex. ldap.company.com or ldap.company.com:3268 LDAPbinddn [Optional] 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. Ex. cn=default,cn=user:password LDAPBaseDN The LDAPBaseDN parameter should be set to the location in your LDAP tree that you would like to search for e-mail addresses. Your uids should be unique under the DN specified here. Ex. ou=People,o=Company LDAPuidattribute 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. Ex. uid LDAPmailattribute The LDAPmailattribute parameter should be the name of the attribute which contains the e-mail address your users will enter into the Bugzilla login boxes. Ex. mail

It is possible for a Bugzilla to execute malicious Javascript code. Due to internationalization concerns, we are unable to incorporate the code changes necessary to fulfill the CERT advisory requirements mentioned in . Making the change below will fix the problem if your installation is for an English speaking audience. Telling Bugzilla to output a charset as part of the HTTP header is much easier in version 2.18 and higher than it was in previous versions. Simply locate the following line in Bugzilla/CGI.pm: # Make sure that we don't send any charset headers $self->charset(''); and change it to: # Send all data using the ISO-8859-1 charset $self->charset('ISO-8859-1'); Using <meta> tags to set the charset is not recommended, as there's a bug in Netscape 4.x which causes pages marked up in this way to load twice. See bug 126266 for more information including progress toward making bugzilla charset aware by default.

You should modify the <DirectoryIndex> parameter for the Apache virtual host running your Bugzilla installation to allow index.cgi as the index page for a directory, as well as the usual index.html, index.htm, and so forth.

Bugzilla is unsupported under mod_perl. Effort is underway to make it work cleanly in a mod_perl environment, but it is slow going.

It is possible for a user, by mistake or on purpose, to access the database many times in a row which can result in very slow access speeds for other users. If your Bugzilla installation is experiencing this problem , you may install the Apache module mod_throttle which can limit connections by ip-address. You may download this module at . Follow the instructions to install into your Apache install. This module only functions with the Apache web server! You may use the ThrottleClientIP command provided by this module to accomplish this goal. See the Module Instructions for more information.

Many aspects of the Bugzilla installation can be affected by the the operating system you choose to install it on. Sometimes it can be made easier and others more difficult. This section will attempt to help you understand both the difficulties of running on specific operating systems and the utilities available to make it easier. If you have anything to add or notes for an operating system not covered, please file a bug in &bzg-bugs;.

Making Bugzilla work on windows is still a very painful processes. The Bugzilla Team is working to make it easier, but that goal is not considered a top priority. If you wish to run Bugzilla, we still recommend doing so on a Unix based system such as GNU/Linux. As of this writing, all members of the Bugzilla team and all known large installations run on Unix based systems. If after hearing all that, you have enough pain tolerance to attempt installing Bugzilla on Win32, here are some pointers.

Perl for Windows can be obtained from ActiveState. You should be able to find a compiled binary at .

Bugzilla on Windows requires the same perl modules found in . The main difference is that windows uses PPM instead of CPAN. C:\perl> ppm <module name> The above syntax should work for all modules with the exception of Template Toolkit. The Template Toolkit website suggests using the instructions on OpenInteract's website. A complete list of modules that can be installed using ppm can be found at .

Unfortunately, Bugzilla still doesn't run "out of the box" on Windows. There is work in progress to make this easier, but until that happens code will have to be modified. This section is an attempt to list the required changes. It is an attempt to be all inclusive, but there may be other changes required. If you find something is missing, please file a bug in &bzg-bugs;.

In checksetup.pl, the line reading: my $mysql_binaries = `which mysql`; to my $mysql_binaries = "D:\\mysql\\bin\\mysql"; And you'll also need to change: my $webservergid = getgrnam($my_webservergroup) to my $webservergid = '8'

To make bug e-mail work on Win32 (until bug 84876 lands), the simplest way is to have Net::SMTP installed and change this (in Bugzilla/BugMail.pm): open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail $sendmailparam -t -i") || die "Can't open sendmail"; print SENDMAIL trim($msg) . "\n"; close SENDMAIL; to use Net::SMTP; my $smtp_server = 'smtp.mycompany.com'; # change this # Use die on error, so that the mail will be in the 'unsent mails' and # can be sent from the sanity check page. my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($smtp_server) || die 'Cannot connect to server \'$smtp_server\''; $smtp->mail('bugzilla-daemon@mycompany.com'); # change this $smtp->to($person); $smtp->data(); $smtp->datasend($msg); $smtp->dataend(); $smtp->quit; Don't forget to change the name of your SMTP server and the domain of the sending e-mail address (after the '@') in the above lines of code.

As is the case on Unix based systems, any web server should be able to handle Bugzilla; however, the Bugzilla Team still recommends Apache whenever asked. No matter what web server you choose, be sure to pay attention to the security notes in . More information on configuring specific web servers can be found in . If using Apache on windows, you can set the ScriptInterpreterSource directive in your Apache config, if you don't do this, you'll have to modify the first line of every script to contain your path to perl instead of /usr/bin/perl.

There are a lot of common libraries and utilities out there that Apple did not include with Mac OS X, but which run perfectly well on it. The GD library, which Bugzilla needs to do bug graphs, is one of these. The easiest way to get a lot of these is with a program called Fink, which is similar in nature to the CPAN installer, but installs common GNU utilities. Fink is available from . Follow the instructions for setting up Fink. Once it's installed, you'll want to use it to install the gd2 package. It will prompt you for a number of dependencies, type 'y' and hit enter to install all of the dependencies and then watch it work. You will then be able to use CPAN to install the GD perl module. To prevent creating conflicts with the software that Apple installs by default, Fink creates its own directory tree at /sw where it installs most of the software that it installs. This means your libraries and headers be at /sw/lib and /sw/include instead of /usr/lib and /usr/local/include. When the Perl module config script asks where your libgd is, be sure to tell it /sw/lib. Also available via Fink is expat. Once running using fink to install the expat package you will be able to install XML::Parser using CPAN. There is one caveat. Unlike recent versions of the GD module, XML::Parser doesn't prompt for the location of the required libraries. When using CPAN, you will need to use the following command sequence: # perl -MCPAN -e'look XML::Parser' # perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/sw/lib EXPATINCPATH=/sw/include # make; make test; make install # exit The look command will download the module and spawn a new shell with the extracted files as the current working directory. The exit command will return you to your original shell. You should watch the output from these make commands, especially make test as errors may prevent XML::Parser from functioning correctly with Bugzilla.

Linux-Mandrake 8.0 includes every required and optional library for Bugzilla. The easiest way to install them is by using the urpmi utility. If you follow these commands, you should have everything you need for Bugzilla, and ./checksetup.pl should not complain about any missing libraries. You may already have some of these installed. bash# urpmi perl-mysql bash# urpmi perl-chart bash# urpmi perl-gd bash# urpmi perl-MailTools bash# urpmi apache-modules for Bugzilla e-mail integration

The Bugzilla Team recommends Apache when using Bugzilla, however, any web server that can be configured to run CGI scripts should be able to handle Bugzilla. No matter what web server you choose, but especially if you choose something other than Apache, you should be sure to read . The plan for this section is to eventually document the specifics of how to lock down permissions on individual web servers.

As mentioned above, the Bugzilla Team recommends Apache for use with Bugzilla. You will have to make sure that Apache is properly configured to run the Bugzilla CGI scripts. You also need to make sure that the .htaccess files created by ./checksetup.pl (shown in for the curious) are allowed to override Apache's normal access permissions or else important password information may be exposed to the Internet. Many Apache installations are not configured to run scripts anywhere but in the cgi-bin directory; however, we recommend that Bugzilla not be installed in the cgi-bin, otherwise the static files such as images and will not work correctly. To allow scripts to run in the normal web space, the following changes should be made to your httpd.conf file. To allow files with a .cgi extension to be run, make sure the following line exists and is uncommented: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi To allow .htaccess files to override permissions and .cgi files to run in the Bugzilla directory, make sure the following two lines are in a Directory directive that applies to the Bugzilla directory on your system (either the Bugzilla directory or one of its parents). Options +ExecCGI AllowOverride Limit For more information on Apache and its directives, see the glossary entry on . $BUGZILLA_HOME/.htaccess deny from all allow from all ]]> $BUGZILLA_HOME/data/.htaccess allow from all ]]> $BUGZILLA_HOME/data/webdot Allow from 192.20.225.10 Deny from all # Allow access by a local copy of 'dot' to .png, .gif, .jpg, and # .map files Allow from all # And no directory listings, either. Deny from all ]]> $BUGZILLA_HOME/Bugzilla/.htaccess # nothing in this directory is retrievable unless overriden by an .htaccess # in a subdirectory deny from all $BUGZILLA_HOME/template/.htaccess # nothing in this directory is retrievable unless overriden by an .htaccess # in a subdirectory deny from all

If you need, or for some reason even want, to use Microsoft's Internet Information Services or Personal Web Server you should be able to. You will need to configure them to know how to run CGI scripts, however. This is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q245225 for Internet Information Services and Q231998 for Personal Web Server. Also, and this can't be stressed enough, make sure that files such as localconfig and your data directory are secured as described in .

Ben FrantzDale reported success using AOL Server with Bugzilla. He reported his experience and what appears below is based on that. AOL Server will have to be configured to run CGI scripts, please consult the documentation that came with your server for more information on how to do this. Because AOL Server doesn't support .htaccess files, you'll have to create a TCL script. You should create an aolserver/modules/tcl/filter.tcl file (the filename shouldn't matter) with the following contents (change /bugzilla/ to the web-based path to your Bugzilla installation): ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/localconfig filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/localconfig~ filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/\#localconfig\# filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/*.pl filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/syncshadowdb filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/runtests.sh filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/data/* filter_deny ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/template/* filter_deny proc filter_deny { why } { ns_log Notice "filter_deny" return "filter_return" } This probably doesn't account for all possible editor backup files so you may wish to add some additional variations of localconfig. For more information, see bug 186383 or Bugtraq ID 6501. If you are using webdot from research.att.com (the default configuration for the webdotbase paramater), you will need to allow access to data/webdot/*.dot for the reasearch.att.com machine. If you are using a local installation of GraphViz, you will need to allow everybody to access *.png, *.gif, *.jpg, and *.map in the data/webdot directory.

This section gives solutions to common Bugzilla installation problems.

Try executing perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN' and then continuing. Certain older versions of the CPAN toolset were somewhat naive about how to upgrade Perl modules. When a couple of modules got rolled into the core Perl distribution for 5.6.1, CPAN thought that the best way to get those modules up to date was to haul down the Perl distribution itself and build it. Needless to say, this has caused headaches for just about everybody. Upgrading to a newer version of CPAN with the commandline above should fix things.

The following error message may appear due to a bug in DBD::mysql (over which the Bugzilla team have no control): To fix this, go to <path-to-perl>/lib/DBD/sponge.pm in your Perl installation and replace {'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}) { $numFields = $attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}; } elsif ($attribs->{'NAME'}) { $numFields = @{$attribs->{NAME}}; ]]> by {'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}) { $numFields = $attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}; } elsif ($attribs->{'NAMES'}) { $numFields = @{$attribs->{NAMES}}; ]]> (note the S added to NAME.)

If you are installing Bugzilla on SuSE Linux, or some other distributions with paranoid security options, it is possible that the checksetup.pl script may fail with the error: This is because your /var/spool/mqueue directory has a mode of drwx------. Type chmod 755 /var/spool/mqueue as root to fix this problem.

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. Examples can be found in .

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 patch in . The patch is also available as a patch file.