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<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> -->
<chapter id="installation" xreflabel="Bugzilla Installation">
<title>Installation</title>
<para>
These installation instructions are presented assuming you are
installing on a UNIX or completely POSIX-compliant system. If
you are installing on Microsoft Windows or another oddball
operating system, please consult the appropriate sections in
this installation guide for notes on how to be successful.
</para>
<section id="errata">
<title>ERRATA</title>
<para>Here are some miscellaneous notes about possible issues you
main run into when you begin your Bugzilla installation.
Reference platforms for Bugzilla installation are Redhat Linux
7.2, Linux-Mandrake 8.0, and Solaris 8.</para>
<simplelist>
<member>
If you are installing Bugzilla on S.u.S.e. Linux, or some
other distributions with <quote>paranoid</quote> security
options, it is possible that the checksetup.pl script may fail
with the error: <errorname>cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue):
Permission denied</errorname> This is because your
<filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename> directory has a mode of
<quote>drwx------</quote>. Type <command>chmod 755
<filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename></command> as root to
fix this problem.
</member>
<member>
Bugzilla may be installed on Macintosh OS X (10), which is a
unix-based (BSD) operating system. Everything required for
Bugzilla on OS X will install cleanly, but the optional GD
perl module which is used for bug charting requires some
additional setup for installation. Please see the Mac OS X
installation section below for details
</member>
<member>
Release Notes for Bugzilla &bz-ver; are available at
<filename>docs/rel_notes.txt</filename> in your Bugzilla
source distribution.
</member>
<member>
The preferred documentation for Bugzilla is available in
docs/, with a variety of document types available. Please
refer to these documents when installing, configuring, and
maintaining your Bugzilla installation.
</member>
</simplelist>
<warning>
<para>
Bugzilla is not a package where you can just plop it in a directory,
twiddle a few things, and you're off. Installing Bugzilla assumes you
know your variant of UNIX or Microsoft Windows well, are familiar with the
command line, and are comfortable compiling and installing a plethora
of third-party utilities. To install Bugzilla on Win32 requires
fair Perl proficiency, and if you use a webserver other than Apache you
should be intimately familiar with the security mechanisms and CGI
environment thereof.
</para>
</warning>
<warning>
<para>
Bugzilla has not undergone a complete security review. Security holes
may exist in the code. Great care should be taken both in the installation
and usage of this software. Carefully consider the implications of
installing other network services with Bugzilla.
</para>
</warning>
</section>
<section id="stepbystep" xreflabel="Bugzilla Installation Step-by-step">
<title>Step-by-step Install</title>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
Installation of bugzilla is pretty straightforward, particularly if your
machine already has MySQL and the MySQL-related perl packages installed.
If those aren't installed yet, then that's the first order of business. The
other necessary ingredient is a web server set up to run cgi scripts.
While using Apache for your webserver is not required, it is recommended.
</para>
<para>
Bugzilla has been successfully installed under Solaris, Linux,
and Win32. The peculiarities of installing on Win32 (Microsoft
Windows) are not included in this section of the Guide; please
check out the <xref linkend="win32" /> for further advice
on getting Bugzilla to work on Microsoft Windows.
</para>
<para>
The Bugzilla Guide is contained in the "docs/" folder in your
Bugzilla distribution. It is available in plain text
(docs/txt), HTML (docs/html), or SGML source (docs/sgml).
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Installing the Prerequisites</title>
<note>
<para>If you want to skip these manual installation steps for
the CPAN dependencies listed below, and are running the very
most recent version of Perl and MySQL (both the executables
and development libraries) on your system, check out
Bundle::Bugzilla in <xref linkend="bundlebugzilla" /></para>
</note>
<para>
The software packages necessary for the proper running of bugzilla are:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
MySQL database server and the mysql client (3.22.5 or greater)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Perl (5.004 or greater, 5.6.1 is recommended if you wish
to use Bundle::Bugzilla)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
DBI Perl module
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Data::Dumper Perl module
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Bundle::Mysql Perl module collection
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
TimeDate Perl module collection
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
GD perl module (1.8.3) (optional, for bug charting)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Chart::Base Perl module (0.99c) (optional, for bug charting)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
DB_File Perl module (optional, for bug charting)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The web server of your choice. Apache is recommended.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
MIME::Parser Perl module (optional, for contrib/bug_email.pl interface)
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<warning>
<para>
It is a good idea, while installing Bugzilla, to ensure it
is not <emphasis>accessible</emphasis> by other machines
on the Internet. Your machine may be vulnerable to attacks
while you are installing. In other words, ensure there is
some kind of firewall between you and the rest of the
Internet. 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.
</para>
</warning>
<note>
<para>Linux-Mandrake 8.0, the author's test system, includes
every required and optional library for Bugzilla. The
easiest way to install them is by using the
<filename>urpmi</filename> utility. If you follow these
commands, you should have everything you need for
Bugzilla, and <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> should
not complain about any missing libraries. You may already
have some of these installed.</para>
<simplelist>
<member><prompt>bash#</prompt><command> urpmi
perl-mysql</command></member>
<member><prompt>bash#</prompt><command> urpmi
perl-chart</command></member>
<member><prompt>bash#</prompt><command> urpmi
perl-gd</command></member>
<member><prompt>bash#</prompt><command> urpmi
perl-MailTools</command> (for Bugzilla email
integration)</member>
<member><prompt>bash#</prompt><command> urpmi
apache-modules</command></member>
</simplelist>
</note>
</para>
</section>
<section id="install-mysql">
<title>Installing MySQL Database</title>
<para>
Visit MySQL homepage at <ulink
url="http://www.mysql.com">www.mysql.com</ulink> and grab the latest stable release of the server. Many of the binary versions of MySQL store their data files in <filename>/var</filename> which is often part of a smaller root partition. If you decide to build from sources you can easily set the dataDir as an option to <filename>configure</filename>.
</para>
<para>
If you install from source or non-package (RPM, deb, etc.)
binaries you need to add
<firstterm>mysqld</firstterm> to your
init scripts so the server daemon will come back up whenever
your machine reboots. Further discussion of UNIX init
sequences are beyond the scope of this guide.
<note>
<para>You should have your init script start
<glossterm>mysqld</glossterm> with the ability to accept
large packets. By default, <filename>mysqld</filename>
only accepts packets up to 64K long. This limits the size
of attachments you may put on bugs. If you add <option>-O
max_allowed_packet=1M</option> to the command that starts
<filename>mysqld</filename> (or
<filename>safe_mysqld</filename>), then you will be able
to have attachments up to about 1 megabyte.</para>
</note>
</para>
<note>
<para>
If you plan on running Bugzilla and MySQL on the same
machine, consider using the <option>--skip-networking</option>
option in the init script. This enhances security by
preventing network access to MySQL.
</para>
</note>
</section>
<section id="install-perl">
<title>Perl (5.004 or greater)</title>
<para>
Any machine that doesn't have perl on it is a sad machine
indeed. Perl for *nix systems can be gotten in source form
from http://www.perl.com. Although Bugzilla runs with most
post-5.004 versions of Perl, 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 &perl-ver;.
</para>
<para>
Perl is now a far cry from the the single compiler/interpreter
binary it once was. It includes a great many required modules
and quite a few other support files. If you're not up to or
not inclined to build perl from source, you'll want to install
it on your machine using some sort of packaging system (be it
RPM, deb, or what have you) to ensure a sane install. In the
subsequent sections you'll be installing quite a few perl
modules; this can be quite ornery if your perl installation
isn't up to snuff.
</para>
<warning>
<para>Many people complain that Perl modules will not install
for them. Most times, the error messages complain that they
are missing a file in <quote>@INC</quote>. Virtually every
time, this 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
<emphasis>are</emphasis> the local UNIX sysadmin, please
consult the newsgroup/mailing list for further assistance or
hire someone to help you out.
</para>
</warning>
<tip id="bundlebugzilla" xreflabel="Using Bundle::Bugzilla instead of manually installing Perl modules">
<para>
You can skip the following Perl module installation steps by
installing <productname>Bundle::Bugzilla</productname> from
<glossterm linkend="gloss-cpan">CPAN</glossterm>, which
includes them. All Perl module installation steps require
you have an active Internet connection. If you wish to use
Bundle::Bugzilla, however, you must be using the latest
version of Perl (at this writing, version &perl-ver;)
</para>
<para>
<computeroutput> <prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>perl -MCPAN
-e 'install "Bundle::Bugzilla"'</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
<para>
Bundle::Bugzilla doesn't include GD, Chart::Base, or
MIME::Parser, which are not essential to a basic Bugzilla
install. If installing this bundle fails, you should
install each module individually to isolate the problem.
</para>
</tip>
</section>
<section>
<title>DBI Perl Module</title>
<para>
The DBI module is a generic Perl module used by other database related
Perl modules. For our purposes it's required by 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.
</para>
<para>
Like almost all Perl modules DBI can be found on the Comprehensive Perl
Archive Network (CPAN) at http://www.cpan.org. The CPAN servers have a
real tendency to bog down, so please use mirrors. The current location
at the time of this writing can be found in <xref linkend="downloadlinks" />.
</para>
<para>
Quality, general Perl module installation instructions can be found on
the CPAN website, but the easy thing to do is to just use the CPAN shell
which does all the hard work for you.
</para>
<para>
To use the CPAN shell to install DBI:
<informalexample>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>perl -MCPAN -e 'install "DBI"'</command>
</computeroutput>
<note>
<para>Replace "DBI" with the name of whichever module you wish
to install, such as Data::Dumper, TimeDate, GD, etc.</para>
</note>
</para>
</informalexample>
To do it the hard way:
<informalexample>
<para>
Untar the module tarball -- it should create its own directory
</para>
<para>
CD to the directory just created, and enter the following commands:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>perl Makefile.PL</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>make</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>make test</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>make install</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
If everything went ok that should be all it takes. For the vast
majority of perl modules this is all that's required.
</para>
</informalexample>
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Data::Dumper Perl Module</title>
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
Data::Dumper is used by the MySQL-related Perl modules. It
can be found on CPAN (see <xref linkend="downloadlinks" />) and
can be
installed by following the same four step make sequence used
for the DBI module.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>MySQL related Perl Module Collection</title>
<para>
The Perl/MySQL interface requires a few mutually-dependent perl
modules. These modules are grouped together into the the
Msql-Mysql-modules package. This package can be found at CPAN.
After the archive file has been downloaded it should
be untarred.
</para>
<para>
The MySQL modules are all built using one make file which is generated
by running:
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>perl Makefile.pl</command>
</para>
<para>
The MakeMaker process will ask you a few questions about the desired
compilation target and your MySQL installation. For many of the questions
the provided default will be adequate.
</para>
<para>
When asked if your desired target is the MySQL or mSQL packages,
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.
</para>
<para>
A host of 'localhost' should be fine and a testing user of 'test' and
a null password should find itself with sufficient access to run tests
on the 'test' database which MySQL created upon installation. If 'make
test' and 'make install' go through without errors you should be ready
to go as far as database connectivity is concerned.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>TimeDate Perl Module Collection</title>
<para>
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 (see link: <xref linkend="downloadlinks" />). The
component module we're most interested in is the Date::Format
module, but installing all of them is probably a good idea
anyway. The standard Perl module installation instructions
should work perfectly for this simple package.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>GD Perl Module (1.8.3)</title>
<para>
The GD library was written by Thomas Boutell a long while
ago to programatically generate images in C. Since then it's
become the defacto standard for programatic 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.
</para>
<para>
Actually bugzilla uses the Graph module which relies on GD
itself. Isn't that always the way with object-oriented
programming? At any rate, you can find the GD library on CPAN
in <xref linkend="downloadlinks" />.
</para>
<note>
<para>
The Perl GD library requires some other libraries that may
or may not be installed on your system, including
<classname>libpng</classname> and
<classname>libgd</classname>. The full requirements are
listed in the Perl GD library README. Just realize that if
compiling GD fails, it's probably because you're missing a
required library.
</para>
</note>
</section>
<section>
<title>Chart::Base Perl Module (0.99c)</title>
<para>
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 where it is found as the
Chart-x.x... tarball, linked in <xref linkend="downloadlinks" />. Note that
as with the GD perl module, only the version listed above, or
newer, will work. Earlier versions used GIF's, which are no
longer supported by the latest versions of GD.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>DB_File Perl Module</title>
<para>
DB_File is a module which allows Perl programs to make use
of the facilities provided by Berkeley DB version 1.x. This
module is required by collectstats.pl which is used for bug
charting. If you plan to make use of bug charting, you must
install this module.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>HTTP Server</title>
<para>
You have a freedom of choice here - Apache, Netscape or any
other server on UNIX would do. You can easily run the web
server on a different machine than MySQL, but need to adjust
the MySQL <quote>bugs</quote> user permissions accordingly.
<note>
<para>I strongly recommend Apache as the web server to use.
The Bugzilla Guide installation instructions, in general,
assume you are using Apache. As more users use different
webservers and send me information on the peculiarities of
installing using their favorite webserver, I will provide
notes for them.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>
You'll want to make sure that your web server will run any
file with the .cgi extension as a cgi and not just display it.
If you're using apache that means uncommenting the following
line in the srm.conf file:
<programlisting>
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
With apache you'll also want to make sure that within the
access.conf file the line:
<programlisting>
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride Limit
</programlisting>
is in the stanza that covers the directories into which
you intend to put the bugzilla .html and .cgi files.
</para>
<note>
<para>
AllowOverride Limit allows the use of a Deny statement in the
.htaccess file generated by checksetup.pl
</para>
<para>
Users of newer versions of Apache will generally find both
of the above lines will be in the httpd.conf file, rather
than srm.conf or access.conf.
</para>
</note>
<warning>
<para>
There are important files and directories that should not
be a served by the HTTP server. These are most files in the
<quote>data</quote> and <quote>shadow</quote> directories
and the <quote>localconfig</quote> file. You should
configure your HTTP server to not serve content from these
files. Failure to do so will expose critical passwords and
other data. Please see <xref linkend="htaccess" /> for details
on how to do this for Apache. I appreciate notes on how to
get this same functionality using other webservers.
</para>
</warning>
</section>
<section>
<title>Installing the Bugzilla Files</title>
<para>
You should untar the Bugzilla files into a directory that
you're willing to make writable by the default web server user
(probably <quote>nobody</quote>). You may decide to put the
files off of the main web space for your web server or perhaps
off of <filename>/usr/local</filename> with a symbolic link in
the web space that points to the Bugzilla directory. At any
rate, just dump all the files in the same place, and make sure
you can access the files in that directory through your web
server.
</para>
<tip>
<para>
If you symlink the bugzilla directory into your Apache's
HTML heirarchy, you may receive
<errorname>Forbidden</errorname> errors unless you add the
<quote>FollowSymLinks</quote> directive to the
<Directory> entry for the HTML root.
</para>
</tip>
<para>
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
<filename>checksetup.pl</filename> script, which locks down your
installation.
</para>
<para>
Lastly, you'll need to set up a symbolic link to
<filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl</filename> for the correct
location of your perl executable (probably
<filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>). Otherwise you must hack
all the .cgi files to change where they look for perl, or use
<xref linkend="setperl" />, found in
<xref linkend="patches" />. I suggest using the symlink
approach for future release compatability.
<example>
<title>Setting up bonsaitools symlink</title>
<para>
Here's how you set up the Perl symlink on Linux to make
Bugzilla work. Your mileage may vary. For some UNIX
operating systems, you probably need to subsitute
<quote>/usr/local/bin/perl</quote> for
<quote>/usr/bin/perl</quote> below; if on certain other
UNIX systems, Perl may live in weird places like
<quote>/opt/perl</quote>. As root, run these commands:
<programlisting>
bash# mkdir /usr/bonsaitools
bash# mkdir /usr/bonsaitools/bin
bash# ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Alternately, you can simply run this perl one-liner to
change your path to perl in all the files in your Bugzilla
installation:
<programlisting>
perl -pi -e 's@#\!/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl@#\!/usr/bin/perl@' *cgi *pl Bug.pm
processmail syncshadowdb
</programlisting>
Change the second path to perl to match your installation.
</para>
</example>
<tip>
<para>
If you don't have root access to set this symlink up,
check out the
<xref linkend="setperl" />, listed in <xref
linkend="patches" />. It will change the path to perl in all your Bugzilla files for you.
</para>
</tip>
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Setting Up the MySQL Database</title>
<para>
After you've gotten all the software installed and working you're ready
to start preparing the database for its life as a the back end to a high
quality bug tracker.
</para>
<para>
First, you'll want to fix MySQL permissions to allow access
from Bugzilla. For the purpose of this Installation section,
the Bugzilla username will be <quote>bugs</quote>, and will
have minimal permissions.
<warning>
<para>
Bugzilla has not undergone a thorough security audit. It
may be possible for a system cracker to somehow trick
Bugzilla into executing a command such as <command>DROP
DATABASE mysql</command>.
</para>
<para>That would be bad.</para>
</warning>
</para>
<para>
Give the MySQL root user a password. MySQL passwords are
limited to 16 characters.
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput> <prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>mysql
-u root mysql</command> </computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput> <prompt>mysql></prompt> <command>
UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD ('new_password')
WHERE user='root'; </command> </computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput> <prompt>mysql></prompt> <command>FLUSH
PRIVILEGES;</command> </computeroutput>
</member>
</simplelist> From this point on, if you need to access
MySQL as the MySQL root user, you will need to use
<command>mysql -u root -p</command> and enter your
new_password. Remember that MySQL user names have nothing to
do with Unix user names (login names).
</para>
<para>
Next, we create the <quote>bugs</quote> user, and grant
sufficient permissions for checksetup.pl, which we'll use
later, to work its magic. This also restricts the
<quote>bugs</quote> user to operations within a database
called <quote>bugs</quote>, and only allows the account to
connect from <quote>localhost</quote>. Modify it to reflect
your setup if you will be connecting from another machine or
as a different user.
</para>
<para>
Remember to set bugs_password to some unique password.
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,
ALTER,CREATE,DROP,REFERENCES
ON bugs.* TO bugs@localhost
IDENTIFIED BY 'bugs_password';</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>
mysql>
</prompt>
<command>
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
Next, run the magic checksetup.pl script. (Many thanks to
Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@nikocity.de> for writing
this script!) It will make sure Bugzilla files and directories
have reasonable permissions, set up the
<filename>data</filename> directory, and create all the MySQL
tables.
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput> <prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>./checksetup.pl</command> </computeroutput>
</member>
</simplelist> The first time you run it, it will create a
file called <filename>localconfig</filename>.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Tweaking <filename>localconfig</filename></title>
<para>
This file contains a variety of settings you may need to tweak including
how Bugzilla should connect to the MySQL database.
</para>
<para>
The connection settings include:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
server's host: just use <quote>localhost</quote> if the
MySQL server is local
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
database name: <quote>bugs</quote> if you're following
these directions
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
MySQL username: <quote>bugs</quote> if you're following
these directions
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Password for the <quote>bugs</quote> MySQL account above
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
<para>
You should also install .htaccess files that the Apache
webserver will use to restrict access to Bugzilla data files.
See <xref
linkend="htaccess" />.
</para>
<para>
Once you are happy with the settings, re-run
<filename>checksetup.pl</filename>. On this second run, it will
create the database and an administrator account for which
you will be prompted to provide information.
</para>
<para>
When logged into an administrator account once Bugzilla is
running, if you go to the query page (off of the Bugzilla main
menu), you'll find an <quote>edit parameters</quote> option
that is filled with editable treats.
</para>
<para>
Should everything work, you will have a nearly empty Bugzilla
database and a newly-created <filename>localconfig</filename>
file in your Bugzilla root directory.
</para>
<para>
<note>
<para>
The second time you run checksetup.pl, you should become
the user your web server runs as, and that you ensure that
you set the <quote>webservergroup</quote> parameter in localconfig to
match the web server's group name, if any. I believe,
for the next release of Bugzilla, this will be fixed so
that Bugzilla supports a <quote>webserveruser</quote> parameter in
localconfig as well.
<example>
<title>Running checksetup.pl as the web user</title>
<para>
Assuming your web server runs as user "apache", and
Bugzilla is installed in "/usr/local/bugzilla", here's
one way to run checksetup.pl as the web server user.
As root, for the <emphasis>second run</emphasis> of
checksetup.pl, do this:
<programlisting>
bash# chown -R apache:apache /usr/local/bugzilla
bash# su - apache
bash# cd /usr/local/bugzilla
bash# ./checksetup.pl
</programlisting>
</para>
</example>
</para>
</note>
</para>
<note>
<para>
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.
</para>
</note>
</section>
<section>
<title>Setting Up Maintainers Manually (Optional)</title>
<para>
If you want to add someone else to every group by hand, you
can do it by typing the appropriate MySQL commands. Run
<command> mysql -u root -p bugs</command> You
may need different parameters, depending on your security
settings. Then:
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput> <prompt>mysql></prompt> <command>update
profiles set groupset=0x7fffffffffffffff where
login_name = 'XXX';</command> </computeroutput> (yes, that's <emphasis>fifteen</emphasis><quote>f</quote>'s.
</member>
</simplelist> replacing XXX with the Bugzilla email address.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>The Whining Cron (Optional)</title>
<para>
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. This can be done by adding the following command as a
daily crontab entry (for help on that see that crontab man
page):
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput> <command>cd
<your-bugzilla-directory> ;
./whineatnews.pl</command> </computeroutput>
</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<tip>
<para>
Depending on your system, crontab may have several manpages.
The following command should lead you to the most useful
page for this purpose:
<programlisting>
man 5 crontab
</programlisting>
</para>
</tip>
</section>
<section>
<title>Bug Graphs (Optional)</title>
<para>
As long as you installed the GD and Graph::Base Perl modules
you might as well turn on the nifty bugzilla bug reporting
graphs.
</para>
<para>
Add a cron entry like this to run collectstats daily at 5
after midnight:
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput> <prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>crontab
-e</command> </computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput> 5 0 * * * cd
<your-bugzilla-directory> ; ./collectstats.pl
</computeroutput>
</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
After two days have passed you'll be able to view bug graphs
from the Bug Reports page.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Securing MySQL</title>
<para>
If you followed the installation instructions for setting up
your "bugs" and "root" user in MySQL, much of this should not
apply to you. If you are upgrading an existing installation
of Bugzilla, you should pay close attention to this section.
</para>
<para>
Most MySQL installs have "interesting" default security parameters:
<simplelist>
<member>mysqld defaults to running as root</member>
<member>it defaults to allowing external network connections</member>
<member>it has a known port number, and is easy to detect</member>
<member>it defaults to no passwords whatsoever</member>
<member>it defaults to allowing "File_Priv"</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
This means anyone from anywhere on the internet can not only
drop the database with one SQL command, and they can write as
root to the system.
</para>
<para>
To see your permissions do:
<simplelist>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>mysql -u root -p</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>use mysql;</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>show tables;</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>select * from user;</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
<member>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>select * from db;</command>
</computeroutput>
</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
To fix the gaping holes:
<simplelist>
<member>DELETE FROM user WHERE User='';</member>
<member>UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new_password') WHERE user='root';</member>
<member> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
If you're not running "mit-pthreads" you can use:
<simplelist>
<member>GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO bugs@localhost;</member>
<member>GRANT ALL ON bugs.* TO bugs@localhost;</member>
<member>REVOKE DROP ON bugs.* FROM bugs@localhost;</member>
<member>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
With "mit-pthreads" you'll need to modify the "globals.pl" Mysql->Connect
line to specify a specific host name instead of "localhost", and accept
external connections:
<simplelist>
<member>GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO bugs@bounce.hop.com;</member>
<member>GRANT ALL ON bugs.* TO bugs@bounce.hop.com;</member>
<member>REVOKE DROP ON bugs.* FROM bugs@bounce.hop.com;</member>
<member>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
Use .htaccess files with the Apache webserver to secure your
bugzilla install. See <xref linkend="htaccess" />
</para>
<para>
Consider also:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Turning off external networking with "--skip-networking",
unless you have "mit-pthreads", in which case you can't.
Without networking, MySQL connects with a Unix domain socket.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
using the --user= option to mysqld to run it as an unprivileged
user.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
starting MySQL in a chroot jail
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
running the httpd in a "chrooted" jail
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
making sure the MySQL passwords are different from the OS
passwords (MySQL "root" has nothing to do with system "root").
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
running MySQL on a separate untrusted machine
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
making backups ;-)
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="osx">
<title>Mac OS X Installation Notes</title>
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
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
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/>.
</para>
<para>
Follow the instructions for setting up Fink. Once it's
installed, you'll want to run the following as root:
<command>fink install gd</command>
</para>
<para>
It will prompt you for a number of dependencies, type 'y' and
hit enter to install all of the dependencies. Then watch it
work.
</para>
<para>
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 for libgd will be at
/sw/lib and /sw/include instead of /usr/lib and
/usr/local/include. Because of these changed locations for
the libraries, the Perl GD module will not install directly
via CPAN (it looks for the specific paths instead of getting
them from your environment). But there's a way around that
:-)
</para>
<para>
Instead of typing <quote>install GD</quote> at the
<prompt>cpan></prompt> prompt, type <command>look
GD</command>. This should go through the motions of
downloading the latest version of the GD module, then it will
open a shell and drop you into the build directory. Apply the
following patch to the Makefile.PL file (save the patch into a
file and use the command <command>patch <
patchfile</command>:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
--- GD-1.33/Makefile.PL Fri Aug 4 16:59:22 2000
+++ GD-1.33-darwin/Makefile.PL Tue Jun 26 01:29:32 2001
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
warn "NOTICE: This module requires libgd 1.8.3 or higher (shared library version 4.X).\n";
# =====> PATHS: CHECK AND ADJUST <=====
-my @INC = qw(-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gd);
-my @LIBPATH = qw(-L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib );
+my @INC = qw(-I/sw/include -I/sw/include/gd -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gd);
+my @LIBPATH = qw(-L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/lib);
my @LIBS = qw(-lgd -lpng -lz);
# FEATURE FLAGS
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
push @LIBS,'-lttf' if $TTF;
push @LIBS,'-ljpeg' if $JPEG;
-push @LIBS, '-lm' unless $^O eq 'MSWin32';
+push @LIBS, '-lm' unless ($^O =~ /^MSWin32|darwin$/);
# FreeBSD 3.3 with libgd built from ports croaks if -lXpm is specified
if ($^O ne 'freebsd' && $^O ne 'MSWin32') {
]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Then, run these commands to finish the installation of the perl module:
<simplelist>
<member><command>perl Makefile.PL</command></member>
<member><command>make</command></member>
<member><command>make test</command></member>
<member><command>make install</command></member>
<member>And don't forget to run <command>exit</command> to get back to cpan.</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
Happy Hacking!
</para>
</section>
<section id="bsdinstall" xreflabel="BSD Installation Notes">
<title>BSD Installation Notes</title>
<para>
For instructions on how to set up Bugzilla on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, etc. please
consult <xref linkend="osx" />.
</para>
</section>
<section id="geninstall" xreflabel="Installation General Notes">
<title>Installation General Notes</title>
<section>
<title>Modifying Your Running System</title>
<para>
Bugzilla optimizes database lookups by storing all relatively static
information in the versioncache file, located in the data/ subdirectory
under your installation directory.
</para>
<para>
If you make a change to the structural data in your database
(the versions table for example), or to the
<quote>constants</quote> encoded in defparams.pl, you will
need to remove the cached content from the data directory
(by doing a <quote>rm data/versioncache</quote>), or your
changes won't show up.
</para>
<para>
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.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Upgrading From Previous Versions</title>
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
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.
</para>
</section>
<section id="htaccess" xreflabel=".htaccess files and security">
<title><filename>.htaccess</filename> files and security</title>
<para>
To enhance the security of your Bugzilla installation,
Bugzilla will generate
<glossterm><filename>.htaccess</filename></glossterm> files
which the Apache webserver can use to restrict access to
the bugzilla data files. The checksetup script will
generate the <filename>.htaccess</filename> files.
<note>
<para>
If you are using an alternate provider of
<productname>webdot</productname> services for graphing
(as described when viewing
<filename>editparams.cgi</filename> in your web
browser), you will need to change the ip address in
<filename>data/webdot/.htaccess</filename> to the ip
address of the webdot server that you are using.
</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>
The default .htaccess file may not provide adequate access
restrictions, depending on your web server configuration.
Be sure to check the <Directory> entries for your
Bugzilla directory so that the <filename>.htaccess</filename>
file is allowed to override web server defaults. For instance,
let's assume your installation of Bugzilla is installed to
<filename>/usr/local/bugzilla</filename>. You should have
this <Directory> entry in your <filename>httpd.conf</filename>
file:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
<Directory /usr/local/bugzilla/>
Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes +Includes +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
The important part above is <quote>AllowOverride All</quote>.
Without that, the <filename>.htaccess</filename> file created by
<filename>checksetup.pl</filename> will not have sufficient
permissions to protect your Bugzilla installation.
</para>
<para>
If you are using Internet Information Server or other web
server which does not observe <filename>.htaccess</filename>
conventions, you can disable their creation by editing
<filename>localconfig</filename> and setting the
<varname>$create_htaccess</varname> variable to
<parameter>0</parameter>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="mod-throttle" xreflabel="Using mod_throttle to prevent Denial of Service attacks">
<title><filename>mod_throttle</filename> and Security</title>
<para>
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 <filename>mod_throttle</filename> which can limit
connections by ip-address. You may download this module at
<ulink
url="http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/">http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/</ulink>. Follow the instructions to install into your Apache install. <emphasis>This module only functions with the Apache web server!</emphasis>. You may use the <command>ThrottleClientIP</command> command provided by this module to accomplish this goal. See the <ulink url="http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/">Module Instructions</ulink> for more information. </para>
</section>
<section id="content-type" xreflabel="Preventing untrusted Bugzilla contentfrom executing malicious Javascript code">
<title>Preventing untrusted Bugzilla content from executing malicious Javascript code</title>
<para>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 <ulink
url="http://www.cet.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html/#3">http://www.cet.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html/#3</ulink>. Executing the following code snippet from a UNIX command shell will rectify the problem if your Bugzilla installation is intended for an English-speaking audience. As always, be sure your Bugzilla installation has a good backup before making changes, and I recommend you understand what the script is doing before executing it. </para>
<para><programlisting>
bash# cd $BUGZILLA_HOME; for i in `ls *.cgi`; \
do cat $i | sed 's/Content-type\: text\/html/Content-Type: text\/html\; charset=ISO-8859-1/' >$i.tmp; \
mv $i.tmp $i; done
</programlisting></para>
<para>
All this one-liner command does is search for all instances of
<quote>Content-type: text/html</quote> and replaces it with
<quote>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1</quote>.
This specification prevents possible Javascript attacks on the
browser, and is suggested for all English-speaking sites. For
non-english-speaking Bugzilla sites, I suggest changing
<quote>ISO-8859-1</quote>, above, to <quote>UTF-8</quote>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="unixhistory">
<title>UNIX Installation Instructions History</title>
<para>
This document was originally adapted from the Bonsai
installation instructions by Terry Weissman
<terry@mozilla.org>.
</para>
<para>
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 <ulink
url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla">http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla</ulink> ).
</para>
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
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.
</para>
<para>
Comments from people using this Guide for the first time are
particularly welcome.
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="win32" xreflabel="Win32 Installation Notes">
<title>Win32 Installation Notes</title>
<para>This section covers installation on Microsoft Windows 95,
98, ME, NT, and 2000. Bugzilla works fine on Win32 platforms,
but please remember that the Bugzilla team and the author of the
Guide neither endorse nor support installation on Microsoft
Windows. Bugzilla installs and runs <emphasis>best</emphasis>
and <emphasis>easiest</emphasis> on UNIX-like operating systems,
and that is the way it will stay for the foreseeable future. The
Bugzilla team is considering supporting Win32 for the 2.16
release and later.</para>
<para>The easiest way to install Bugzilla on Intel-archiecture
machines is to install some variant of GNU/Linux, then follow
the UNIX installation instructions in this Guide. If you have
any influence in the platform choice for running this system,
please choose GNU/Linux instead of Microsoft Windows.</para>
<section id="wininstall" xreflabel="Win32 Installation: Step-by-step">
<title>Win32 Installation: Step-by-step</title>
<note>
<para>
You should be familiar with, and cross-reference, the rest
of the
<xref linkend="installation" /> section while performing your
Win32 installation.
</para>
<para> Making Bugzilla work on Microsoft Windows is no
picnic. Support for Win32 has improved dramatically in the
last few releases, but, if you choose to proceed, you should
be a <emphasis>very</emphasis> skilled Windows Systems
Administrator with strong troubleshooting abilities, a high
tolerance for pain, and moderate perl skills. Bugzilla on NT
requires hacking source code and implementing some advanced
utilities. What follows is the recommended installation
procedure for Win32; additional suggestions are provided in
<xref linkend="faq" />.
</para>
</note>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Install <ulink url="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Web
Server</ulink> for Windows, and copy the Bugzilla files
somewhere Apache can serve them. Please follow all the
instructions referenced in <xref linkend="installation" />
regarding your Apache configuration, particularly
instructions regarding the <quote>AddHandler</quote>
parameter and <quote>ExecCGI</quote>.
</para>
<note>
<para>
You may also use Internet Information Server or Personal
Web Server for this purpose. However, setup is quite
different. If ActivePerl doesn't seem to handle your
file associations correctly (for .cgi and .pl files),
please consult <xref linkend="faq" />.
</para>
<para>
If you are going to use IIS, if on Windows NT you must
be updated to at least Service Pack 4. Windows 2000
ships with a sufficient version of IIS.
</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Install <ulink url="http://www.activestate.com/">ActivePerl</ulink> for Windows. Check <ulink url="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/">http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl</ulink> for a current compiled binary.
</para>
<para>
Please also check the following links to fully understand the status
of ActivePerl on Win32:
<ulink url="http://language.perl.com/newdocs/pod/perlport.html">
Perl Porting</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/perl/ports/nt/FAQ/perlwin32faq5.html">
Perl on Win32 FAQ</ulink>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Use ppm from your perl\bin directory to install the following
packs: DBI, DBD-Mysql, TimeDate, Chart, Date-Calc, Date-Manip,
GD, AppConfig, and Template. You may need to extract them from
.zip format using Winzip or other unzip program first. Most of
these additional ppm modules can be downloaded from ActiveState,
but AppConfig and Template should be obtained from OpenInteract
using <ulink type="http"
url="http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/">the instructions on
the Template Toolkit web site</ulink>.
</para>
<note>
<para>
You can find a list of modules at
<ulink url="http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/5xx-builds-only">
http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/5xx-builds-only/</ulink>
or <ulink
url="http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus">http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus</ulink>
</para>
</note>
<para>
The syntax for ppm is:
<computeroutput>
<prompt>C:> </prompt><command>ppm <modulename></command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
<example>
<title>Installing ActivePerl ppd Modules on Microsoft Windows</title>
<para><prompt>C:></prompt><command>ppm
<option>DBD-Mysql</option></command></para>
<para>Watch your capitalization!</para>
</example>
<para>
ActiveState's 5.6Plus directory also contains an AppConfig ppm, so
you might see the following error when trying to install the
version at OpenInteract:
</para>
<para>
<computeroutput>
Error installing package 'AppConfig': Read a PPD for
'AppConfig', but it is not intended for this build of Perl
(MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)
</computeroutput>
</para>
<para>
If so, download both <ulink
url="http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/AppConfig.tar.gz">the
tarball</ulink> and <ulink
url="http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/AppConfig.ppd">the
ppd</ulink> directly from OpenInteract, then run ppm from within
the same directory to which you downloaded those files and
install the package by referencing the ppd file explicitly via in
the install command, f.e.:
<example>
<title>Installing OpenInteract ppd Modules manually on Microsoft
Windows</title>
<para>
<computeroutput><command>install
<filename>C:\AppConfig.ppd</filename></command></computeroutput>
</para>
</example>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Install MySQL for NT.
<note>
<para>
You can download MySQL for Windows NT from <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL.com</ulink>. Some find it helpful to use the WinMySqlAdmin utility, included with the download, to set up the database.
</para>
</note>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Setup MySQL
</para>
<substeps>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>C:> </prompt>
<command>C:\mysql\bin\mysql -u root mysql</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>DELETE FROM user WHERE Host='localhost' AND User='';</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD ('new_password')
WHERE user='root';</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
<para><quote>new_password</quote>, above, indicates
whatever password you wish to use for your
<quote>root</quote> user.</para>
</step>
<step id="ntbugs-password">
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE,
INDEX, ALTER, CREATE, DROP, REFERENCES
ON bugs.* to bugs@localhost
IDENTIFIED BY 'bugs_password';</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
<para><quote>bugs_password</quote>, above, indicates
whatever password you wish to use for your
<quote>bugs</quote> user.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>create database bugs;</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>mysql></prompt>
<command>exit;</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>C:></prompt>
<command>C:\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -u root -p reload</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
</substeps>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Edit <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> in your Bugzilla directory. Change
this line:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
my $webservergid = getgrnam($my_webservergroup);
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
to
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
my $webservergid = $my_webservergroup;
</programlisting>
or the name of the group you wish to own the files explicitly:
<programlisting>
my $webservergid = 'Administrators'
</programlisting>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Run <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> from the Bugzilla directory.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Edit <filename>localconfig</filename> to suit your
requirements. Set <varname>$db_pass</varname> to your
<quote>bugs_password</quote> from <xref linkend="ntbugs-password" />, and <varname>$webservergroup</varname> to <quote>8</quote>.</para>
<note>
<para>Not sure on the <quote>8</quote> for
<varname>$webservergroup</varname> above. If it's
wrong, please send corrections.</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Edit <filename>defparams.pl</filename> to suit your
requirements. Particularly, set
<varname>DefParam("maintainer")</varname> and
<varname>DefParam("urlbase") to match your
install.</varname>
</para>
<note>
<para>This is yet another step I'm not sure of, since the
maintainer of this documentation does not maintain
Bugzilla on NT. If you can confirm or deny that this
step is required, please let me know.</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<note>
<para>
There are several alternatives to Sendmail that will work on Win32.
The one mentioned here is a <emphasis>suggestion</emphasis>, not
a requirement. Some other mail packages that can work include
<ulink url="http://www.blat.net/">BLAT</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.geocel.com/windmail/">Windmail</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.dynamicstate.com/">Mercury Sendmail</ulink>,
and the CPAN Net::SMTP Perl module (available in .ppm).
Every option requires some hacking of the Perl scripts for Bugzilla
to make it work. The option here simply requires the least.
</para>
</note>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Download NTsendmail, available from<ulink url="http://www.ntsendmail.com/"> www.ntsendmail.com</ulink>. You must have a "real" mail server which allows you to relay off it in your $ENV{"NTsendmail"} (which you should probably place in globals.pl)
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Put ntsendmail.pm into your .\perl\lib directory.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Add to globals.pl:</para>
<programlisting>
# these settings configure the NTsendmail process
use NTsendmail;
$ENV{"NTsendmail"}="your.smtpserver.box";
$ENV{"NTsendmail_debug"}=1;
$ENV{"NTsendmail_max_tries"}=5;
</programlisting>
<note>
<para>
Some mention to also edit
<varname>$db_pass</varname> in
<filename>globals.pl</filename> to be your
<quote>bugs_password</quote>. Although this may get
you around some problem authenticating to your
database, since globals.pl is not normally
restricted by <filename>.htaccess</filename>, your
database password is exposed to whoever uses your
web server.
</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Find and comment out all occurences of
<quote><command>open(SENDMAIL</command></quote> in
your Bugzilla directory. Then replace them with:
<programlisting>
# new sendmail functionality
my $mail=new NTsendmail;
my $from="bugzilla\@your.machine.name.tld";
my $to=$login;
my $subject=$urlbase;
$mail->send($from,$to,$subject,$msg);
</programlisting>
</para>
<note>
<para>
Some have found success using the commercial product,
<productname>Windmail</productname>.
You could try replacing your sendmail calls with:
<programlisting>
open SENDMAIL, "|\"C:/General/Web/tools/Windmail 4.0 Beta/windmail\" -t > mail.log";
</programlisting>
or something to that effect.
</para>
</note>
</step>
</procedure>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Change all references in all files from
<filename>processmail</filename> to
<filename>processmail.pl</filename>, and
rename <filename>processmail</filename> to
<filename>processmail.pl</filename>.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Many think this may be a change we want to make for
main-tree Bugzilla. It's painless for the UNIX folks,
and will make the Win32 people happier.
</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>
Some people have suggested using the Net::SMTP Perl module instead of NTsendmail or the other options listed here. You can change processmail.pl to make this work.
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('<Name of your SMTP server>'); #connect to SMTP server
$smtp->mail('<your name>@<you smpt server>');# use the sender's adress here
$smtp->to($tolist); # recipient's address
$smtp->data(); # Start the mail
$smtp->datasend($msg);
$smtp->dataend(); # Finish sending the mail
$smtp->quit; # Close the SMTP connection
$logstr = "$logstr; mail sent to $tolist $cclist";
}
]]>
</programlisting>
here is a test mail program for Net::SMTP:
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
use Net::SMTP;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('<Name of your SMTP server', Timeout => 30, Debug
=> 1, ); # connect to SMTP server
$smtp->auth;
$smtp->mail('you@yourcompany.com');# use the sender's adress
here
$smtp->to('someotherAddress@someotherdomain.com'); #
recipient's address
$smtp->data(); # Start the mail
$smtp->datasend('test');
$smtp->dataend(); # Finish sending the mail
$smtp->quit; # Close the SMTP connection
exit;
]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<note>
<para>
This step is optional if you are using IIS or another
web server which only decides on an interpreter based
upon the file extension (.pl), rather than the
<quote>shebang</quote> line (#/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl)
</para>
</note>
<para>
Modify the path to perl on the first line (#!) of all
files to point to your Perl installation, and add
<quote>perl</quote> to the beginning of all Perl system
calls that use a perl script as an argument. This may
take you a while. There is a <quote>setperl.csh</quote>
utility to speed part of this procedure, available in the
<xref linkend="patches" /> section of The Bugzilla Guide.
However, it requires the Cygwin GNU-compatible environment
for Win32 be set up in order to work. See <ulink url="http://www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com/</ulink> for details on obtaining Cygwin.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Modify the invocation of all system() calls in all perl
scripts in your Bugzilla directory. You should specify the
full path to perl for each system() call. For instance, change
this line in processmail:
<programlisting><![CDATA[
system ("./processmail",@ARGLIST);
</programlisting> to
<programlisting>
system ("C:\\perl\\bin\\perl", "processmail", @ARGLIST);
]]> </programlisting>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Add <function>binmode()</function> calls so attachments
will work (<ulink
url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62000">bug 62000</ulink>).
</para>
<para>
Because Microsoft Windows based systems handle binary
files different than Unix based systems, you need to add
the following lines to
<filename>createattachment.cgi</filename> and
<filename>showattachment.cgi</filename> before the
<function>require 'CGI.pl';</function> line.
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
<![CDATA[
binmode(STDIN);
binmode(STDOUT);
]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
<note>
<para>
According to <ulink
url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62000">bug 62000</ulink>,
the perl documentation says that you should always use
<function>binmode()</function> when dealing with binary
files, but never when dealing with text files. That seems
to suggest that rather than arbitrarily putting
<function>binmode()</function> at the beginning of the
attachment files, there should be logic to determine if
<function>binmode()</function> is needed or not.
</para>
</note>
</step>
</procedure>
<tip>
<para>
If you are using IIS or Personal Web Server, you must add cgi
relationships to Properties -> Home directory (tab) ->
Application Settings (section) -> Configuration (button),
such as:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
.cgi to: <perl install directory>\perl.exe %s %s
.pl to: <perl install directory>\perl.exe %s %s
GET,HEAD,POST
</programlisting>
Change the path to Perl to match your
install, of course.
</para>
</tip>
</section>
<section id="addlwintips">
<title>Additional Windows Tips</title>
<tip>
<para>
From Andrew Pearson:
<blockquote>
<para>
You can make Bugzilla work with Personal Web Server for
Windows 98 and higher, as well as for IIS 4.0.
Microsoft has information available at <ulink url="
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q231/9/98.ASP"> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q231/9/98.ASP</ulink>
</para>
<para>
Basically you need to add two String Keys in the
registry at the following location:
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\ScriptMap
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
The keys should be called ".pl" and ".cgi", and both
should have a value something like:
<command>c:/perl/bin/perl.exe "%s" "%s"</command>
</para>
<para>
The KB article only talks about .pl, but it goes into
more detail and provides a perl test script.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
</tip>
<tip>
<para>
If attempting to run Bugzilla 2.12 or older, you will need
to remove encrypt() calls from the Perl source. This is
<emphasis>not necessary</emphasis> for Bugzilla 2.13 and
later, which includes the current release, Bugzilla
&bz-ver;.
<example>
<title>Removing encrypt() for Windows NT Bugzilla version
2.12 or earlier</title>
<para>
Replace this:
<programlisting>
SendSQL("SELECT encrypt(" . SqlQuote($enteredpwd) . ", " . SQLQuote(substr($realcryptpwd, 0, 2)) . ")");
my $enteredcryptpwd = FetchOneColumn();
</programlisting>
with this:
<programlisting>
my $enteredcryptpwd = $enteredpwd
</programlisting>
in cgi.pl.
</para>
</example>
</para>
</tip>
</section>
<section id="bzldap">
<title>Bugzilla LDAP Integration</title>
<para>
What follows is some late-breaking information on using the
LDAP authentication options with Bugzilla. The author has not
tested these (nor even formatted this section!) so please
contribute feedback to the newsgroup.
</para>
<literallayout>
Mozilla::LDAP module
The Mozilla::LDAP module allows you to use LDAP for authentication to
the Bugzilla system. This module is not required if you are not using
LDAP.
Mozilla::LDAP (aka PerLDAP) is available for download from
http://www.mozilla.org/directory.
NOTE: The Mozilla::LDAP module requires Netscape's Directory SDK.
Follow the link for "Directory SDK for C" on that same page to
download the SDK first. After you have installed this SDK, then
install the PerLDAP module.
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Post-Installation Checklist
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Set useLDAP to "On" **only** if you will be using an LDAP directory
for authentication. Be very careful when setting up this parameter;
if you set LDAP authentication, but do not have a valid LDAP directory
set up, you will not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once you log
out. (If this happens, you can get back in by manually editing the
data/params file, and setting useLDAP back to 0.)
If using LDAP, you must set the three additional parameters:
Set LDAPserver to the name (and optionally port) of your LDAP server.
If no port is specified, it defaults to the default port of 389. (e.g
"ldap.mycompany.com" or "ldap.mycompany.com:1234")
Set LDAPBaseDN to the base DN for searching for users in your LDAP
directory. (e.g. "ou=People,o=MyCompany") uids must be unique under
the DN specified here.
Set LDAPmailattribute to the name of the attribute in your LDAP
directory which contains the primary email address. On most directory
servers available, this is "mail", but you may need to change this.
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(Not sure where this bit should go, but it's important that it be in
there somewhere...)
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Using LDAP authentication for Bugzilla:
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.
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</literallayout>
</section>
</section>
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