BUGZILLA - INSTALLATION ON CENTOS 6

Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development.

Bugzilla Installation and Configuration on Centos 6

1. Download latest stable bugzilla version from the website.

http://www.bugzilla.org/download/

2. Disable selinux

# vi /etc/selinux/config

set SELINUX=disabled

3. Install required components

# yum install perl*

# yum install httpd*

# yum install mysql-server*

# yum install mod_perl-devel

4. Check the version of following to check compatibility

# perl -v

# rpm -qa | grep httpd

# rpm -qa | grep mysql

5. Change to the apache directory from where it serves files

# cd /var/www/html/

# tar xvfz bugzilla-4.0.2.tar.gz

6. Rename the directory and set permissions

# mv bugzilla-4.0.2/ bugzilla

# chmod -R 777 bugzilla

7. Switch to bugzilla directory and run checksetup.pl

# cd /var/www/html/bugzilla/

# ./checksetup.pl

8. Install any missing modules

# /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl –all

9. Display all package

# ./checksetup.pl –check-modules

10. Setup accordingly in mysql

Login as root

# mysql -u root -p

Create the database for bugs in the mysql terminal by using the following sql

# create database bugs;

Create the user bugs

# create user bugs identified by ‘password’;

Grant the permissions to user bugs on bugs database

# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bugs.*TO 'bugs'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bugs.*TO 'bugs'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

11. Edit localconfig of bugzilla

# cd /var/www/html/bugzilla

# vim localconfig

set the bugs password

$db_pass = ‘password’;

#./checksetup.pl

Enter the e-mail address of the administrator: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Enter the real name of the administrator: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Enter a password for the administrator account: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Final checksetup.pl execution:

#./checksetup.pl

Now that you have installed Bugzilla,

http://localhost/bugzilla

12. Apache setup

Configure Port and DocumentRoot

Listen 80

DocumentRoot "var/www/html"

Find the line

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

Change it to

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.cgi

Add the following lines

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

Add the following lines in httpd.conf below the ScriptAlias section and comment previous Script Alias section including <Directory> of ScriptAlias

##

#Added for bugzilla

##

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/html/bugzilla/"

PerlSwitches -w -T

PerlConfigRequire /var/www/html/bugzilla/mod_perl.pl

<Directory /var/www/html/bugzilla>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Options +Indexes +ExecCGI

DirectoryIndex index.cgi

AllowOverride All

</Directory>

restart apache:

#/etc/init.d/httpd restart

13. MySql setup

vi /etc/my.cnf

Set below lines in [mysqld] section

max_allowed_packet = 4M

ft_min_word_len=2

Try http://localhost/bugzilla and have fun!