Bugzilla 4.0.3 Installation:

Download Bugzilla from the Bugzilla download page (2.9 MB).
Bugzilla ships as a Tarball, which has the extension .tar.gz. Any decent Windows archive tool should be able to extract tarballs.
Extract the archive to the directory of your choice. For the remainder of this document I will assume that you have extracted Bugzilla into C:\Bugzilla.

MySQL Installation:

Download MySQL

Download the MySQL 32-bit or 64-bit MSI installer from the MySQL website (28 MB).

Install

MySQL has a standard Windows installer. It's ok to select a Typical MySQL install (the default). But for changing the installation directory, select Custom and change path
Example: MySQL installation path to C:\MySQL5.5 and Data Path to E:\MySQL5.5\Data

Run the Configuration Wizard at the end of the installation and configure the following

· Select Install As Windows Service

· Select Include bin directory in Windows PATH

· Modify Security Settings

o Set Root Password (MySQL)

For the remainder of this document I will assume you have installed MySQL into C:\mysql.
Now change a few settings. Goto C:\mysql\my.ini.
# If max_allowed_packet is set to 4M. Underneath that, add the following line:

ft_min_word_len = 2

Otherwise add the following lines at the end of my.ini file

max_allowed_packet=4M
ft_min_word_len = 2

Launch the MySQL Command Prompt and enter the root password and enter the following

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bugs.* TO 'bugs'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'abcbugs';

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)

mysql> quit

Bye

ActiveState Perl

Download ActiveState Perl

Download the ActiveState Perl 5.12.4 or higher MSI installer from the ActiveState website.
Note that Bugzilla currently requires Perl 5.8.1 or higher, but it's highly recommended to install ActivePerl 5.12 or higher. Bugzilla 4.2 will be the last version to support Perl 5.8.x. The next release will require Perl 5.10.1 or better. Also, there are several bugs in Perl 5.8.x which have been fixed in 5.10.1 and 5.12.

Install

ActiveState Perl uses a standard Windows Installer. Install, sticking with the defaults, which will install Perl into C:\Perl.
Note: Installing Perl into a directory that contains a space (eg "C:\Program Files") will break the Template-Toolkit installer.
Once the install has completed, log out and log in again to pick up the changes to the PATH.

Install Perl Modules

The following are the commands and ouput for a 5.10.x perl module installation. If you don't want to use the command-line interface but prefer a nice Graphical User Interface (GUI), simply type "ppm", or look for the Perl Package Manager in the Windows Start bar.

C:\>ppm version

ppm 4.06 (ActivePerl 1006)

Copyright (C) 2009 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.

C:\>ppm repo add UWinnipeg http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/

Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done

Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done

Downloading UWinnipeg packlist...done

Updating UWinnipeg database...done

Repo 2 added.

C:\>ppm repo add Trouchelle http://trouchelle.com/ppm10/

Downloading Trouchelle packlist...done

Updating Trouchelle database...done

Repo 3 added.

C:\>ppm repo list

+---------------------------------------------+

¦ id ¦ pkgs  ¦ name                           ¦

+----+-------+--------------------------------¦

¦ 1  ¦ 11417 ¦ ActiveState Package Repository ¦

¦ 2  ¦ 291   ¦ UWinnipeg                      ¦

¦ 3  ¦ 11737 ¦ Trouchelle                     ¦

+---------------------------------------------+

(3 enabled repositories)

C:\>ppm upgrade

Syncing site PPM database with .packlists...done

Archive-Tar 1.54 (have 1.52-r1)

Attribute-Handlers 0.87 (have 0.86)

AutoLoader 5.70 (have 5.69)

Bit-Vector 7.1 (have 6.9)

Class-Accessor 0.34 (have 0.33)

Class-ISA 0.36 (have 0.33)

Compress-Raw-Bzip2 2.021 (have 2.020)

Compress-Raw-Zlib 2.021 (have 2.020)

DBD-ODBC 1.23 (have 1.22)

DBI 1.609 (have 1.607)

Date-Calc 5.8 (have 5.6)

Encode 2.37 (have 2.35)

ExtUtils-CBuilder 0.260301 (have 0.2603)

ExtUtils-Manifest 1.57 (have 1.56)

ExtUtils-ParseXS 2.21 (have 2.2002)

File-Path 2.08 (have 2.07_03)

File-Which 1.09 (have 1.07)

IO-Compress 2.021 (have 2.020)

IPC-Cmd 0.50 (have 0.46)

Log-Message-Simple 0.06 (have 0.04)

Math-BigRat 0.24 (have 0.22)

Module-CoreList 2.20 (have 2.17)

Module-Loaded 0.06 (have 0.02)

Object-Accessor 0.36 (have 0.34)

Safe 2.19 (have 2.17)

Test-Simple 0.94 (have 0.92)

Text-CSV_XS 0.68 (have 0.67)

Text-Reform 1.20 (have 1.11)

constant 1.19 (have 1.18)

parent 0.223 (have 0.221)

version 0.7702 (have 0.7701)

C:\>ppm install AppConfig

Downloading AppConfig-1.66...done

Unpacking AppConfig-1.66...done

Generating HTML for AppConfig-1.66...done

Updating files in site area...done

14 files installed

C:\>ppm install TimeDate

Downloading TimeDate-1.19...done

Unpacking TimeDate-1.19...done

Generating HTML for TimeDate-1.19...done

Updating files in site area...done

41 files installed

C:\>ppm install DBI

No missing packages to install

C:\>ppm install DBD-mysql

Downloading DBD-mysql-4.011...done

Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.011...done

Generating HTML for DBD-mysql-4.011...done

Updating files in site area...done

12 files installed

C:\>ppm install Template-Toolkit

Downloading Template-Toolkit-2.22...done

Unpacking Template-Toolkit-2.22...done

Generating HTML for Template-Toolkit-2.22...done

Updating files in site area...done

140 files installed

C:\>ppm install MailTools

Downloading MailTools-2.04...done

Downloading Test-Pod-1.40...done

Unpacking MailTools-2.04...done

Unpacking Test-Pod-1.40...done

Generating HTML for MailTools-2.04...done

Generating HTML for Test-Pod-1.40...done

Updating files in site area...done

43 files installed

C:\>ppm install GD

No missing packages to install

C:\>ppm install Chart

Downloading Chart-2.4.1...done

Unpacking Chart-2.4.1...done

Generating HTML for Chart-2.4.1...done

Updating files in site area...done

16 files installed

C:\>ppm install GDGraph

Downloading GDGraph-1.44...done

Unpacking GDGraph-1.44...done

Generating HTML for GDGraph-1.44...done

Updating files in site area...done

21 files installed

C:\>ppm install PatchReader

Downloading PatchReader-0.9.5...done

Unpacking PatchReader-0.9.5...done

Generating HTML for PatchReader-0.9.5...done

Updating files in site area...done

12 files installed

C:\>ppm install Net-LDAP-Express

Downloading Net-LDAP-Express-0.11...done

Downloading perl-ldap-0.39...done

Downloading Convert-ASN1-0.22...done

Unpacking Net-LDAP-Express-0.11...done

Unpacking perl-ldap-0.39...done

Unpacking Convert-ASN1-0.22...done

Generating HTML for Net-LDAP-Express-0.11...done

Generating HTML for perl-ldap-0.39...done

Generating HTML for Convert-ASN1-0.22...done

Updating files in site area...done

103 files installed

Apache

It is recommended that you run Bugzilla with the Apache web server. If you want to use IIS to run Bugzilla, there are configuration instructions in the Bugzilla documentation.

Download Apache 2.x

Download the Apache HTTP Server version 2.2.x or higher from: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Install

Yet another standard Windows Installer. Just follow the prompts, making sure you Install for All Users. Be aware the Apache will always install itself into an Apache2 directory under what ever path you specify. The default install path will be displayed as C:\Program Files\Apache Group which will result in Apache being installed to C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2. This gets me every time.
For the remainder of this document I will assume you installed Apache into the default location, C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2.
If you are already running IIS, you must configure apache to run on a port other than 80, however you aren't asked the port to listen on at install time. Choose All Users (which says port 80), and we'll change the port later.
By default Apache installs itself to run as the SYSTEM account. For security reasons it's better the reconfigure the service to run as an Apache user. Create a user (say apacheuser and pwd – P@ssw0rd) that is a member of no groups, and reconfigure the Apache2 service to run as that account.

Grant write access for Apache account

By default Apache will run as the SYSTEM account. This account needs write and modify access to the following directorys, and all their subdirectories. Depending on your version of Windows, this access may already be granted.

C:\Bugzilla\data
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\logs
C:\Temp
C:\Windows\Temp

Note that C:\Bugzilla\data is created the first time you run checksetup.pl.

Configure Port and DocumentRoot

Edit C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf with your favourite text editor.
To change the port that Apache runs on (listens on, or binds to), edit the Listen option.

# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or

# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>

# directive.

# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to

# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80

Listen 80

Change the DocumentRoot setting to point to C:\Bugzilla. Note there are two locations in httpd.conf that need to be updated. Note you need to use / instead of \ as a path separator.

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your

# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

DocumentRoot "C:/Bugzilla"

# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect

# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that

# directory (and its subdirectories).

# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of

# features.

<Directory />

   Options FollowSymLinks

   AllowOverride None

</Directory>

# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow

# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as

# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it

# below.

# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

<Directory "C:/Bugzilla">

Configure CGI

To enable CGI support in Apache, you need to enable the CGI handler, by uncommenting the AddHandler cgi-script .cgi line.

# AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers":

# actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server

# or added with the Action directive (see below)

# To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories:

# (You will also need to add "ExecCGI" to the "Options" directive.)

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

And allow .cgi scripts in the Bugzilla directory by adding the ExecCGI option. We also need to allow Bugzilla's .htaccess file to restrict access to sensitive documents by allowing it to override the defaults. This involves changing AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.
Apache also needs to know to use Perl to execute .cgi files, via the ScriptInterpreterSource directive.

# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

<Directory "C:/Bugzilla">

# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",

# or any combination of:

#   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"

# doesn't give it to you.

# The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see

# http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options

# for more information.

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

#   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

    AllowOverride All

# Controls who can get stuff from this server.

   Order allow,deny

   Allow from all

# Tell Apache to use Perl to execute .cgi

    ScriptInterpreterSource Registry-Strict

</Directory>

You also should add index.cgi to the DirectoryIndex list.

# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory

# is requested.

# The index.html.var file (a type-map) is used to deliver content-

# negotiated documents.  The MultiViews Option can be used for the

# same purpose, but it is much slower.

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

In order for ScriptInterpreterSource Registry-Strict to work, you also need to add an entry to the Registry so Apache will use Perl to execute .cgi files.
Create a key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command with the default value of the full path of perl.exe with a -T parameter. For example C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T

Disable Logging

Unless you want to keep statistics on how many hits your Bugzilla install is getting, it's a good idea to disable logging by commenting out the CustomLog directive.

# The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).

# If you do not define any access logfiles within a <VirtualHost>

# container, they will be logged here.  Contrariwise, if you *do*

# define per-<VirtualHost> access logfiles, transactions will be

# logged therein and *not* in this file.

#CustomLog logs/access.log common

Restart Apache

Finally, restart Apache to get it pick up the changes.

C:\>net stop apache2

The Apache2 service is stopping..

The Apache2 service was stopped successfully.

C:\>net start apache2

The Apache2 service is starting.

The Apache2 service was started successfully.

C:\>

COMMANDS TO INSTALL OPTIONAL MODULES:

Template-GD: ppm install Template-GD

MIME-tools: ppm install MIME-tools

XML-Twig: ppm install XML-Twig

RadiusPerl: ppm install RadiusPerl

SOAP-Lite: ppm install SOAP-Lite

JSON-RPC: ppm install JSON-RPC

JSON-XS: ppm install JSON-XS

Test-Taint: ppm install Test-Taint

HTML-Scrubber: ppm install HTML-Scrubber

Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper: ppm install Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper

Email-Reply: ppm install Email-Reply

TheSchwartz: ppm install TheSchwartz

Daemon-Generic: ppm install Daemon-Generic

mod_perl: ppm install mod_perl

Apache-SizeLimit: ppm install Apache-SizeLimit

Math-Random-Secure: ppm install Math-Random-Secure

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