1)Download the latest Stable Release from the Bugzilla website into your home directory, and extract it to some web-accessible location:

e.g. /var/www/html/bugzilla

2) Go to bugzilla directory under /var/www/html and Execute checksetup.pl for the first time.

cd bugzilla
$ perl checksetup.pl
 

3) Install all necessary Perl modules through “/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl –all” command and input necessary commands and path as it prompts.

4) Create database and grant apropriate permission to the database user to access the database.

5)Edit the localconfig file.Open up localconfig in your favorite text editor. You need to change at least the following settings:

• $webservergroup -> users
• $db_name -> (name of your database)
• $db_user -> (name of your database user)
• $db_pass -> (password of your database user)

Now execute checksetup.pl  once again. The script will now initialize the database and compile the templates. It will also ask you for an administrator e-mail address and password.

6) configure apache :- Put the following line in your apache's configuration file(i.e. /etc/httpd/httpd.conf)

<Directory /var/www/html/bugzilla>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi 

Options +Indexes +ExecCGI 

DirectoryIndex index.cgi 

AllowOverride Limit

</Directory>

You can now browse to the Bugzilla URL and login using the e-mail address and password you previously entered in checksetup.pl

This document is compiled by Mainak Roy.