Bugzilla is a bug tracking system that allows users to report, track and manage bugs found in software. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Bugzilla on an OpenBSD system.
The first step is to download the latest version of Bugzilla from the official website at https://www.bugzilla.org/. Once downloaded, extract the contents of the archive to a desired directory, for example /home/user/Bugzilla.
$ tar -xf bugzilla-LATEST.tar.gz -C /home/user/
Next, we need to install the required dependencies for Bugzilla to work properly.
$ sudo pkg_add perl p5-DBD-mysql
Bugzilla requires a MySQL database to store bug tracking data. We need to create a MySQL user and database for Bugzilla.
$ mysql -u root -p
Enter the root password when prompted to access the MySQL console. Then, create a new user and database and grant the user permission to access the database.
mysql> CREATE DATABASE bugzilla;
mysql> CREATE USER 'bugzilla'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bugzilla.* TO 'bugzilla'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit
You can replace the password with a strong password of your choice.
Navigate to the Bugzilla directory and run the checksetup.pl script to initialize and configure the Bugzilla installation.
$ cd /home/user/Bugzilla
$ sudo ./checksetup.pl
The script will prompt you to provide the MySQL database details, which includes the database name, user, and password.
Enter the name of the host where the database "bugs" is located: localhost
Enter the port number that your DBMS uses to talk to the server: 3306
Enter the name of the database that we should use: bugzilla
Enter the name of the MySQL user who we will use to access the database: bugzilla
Enter the password for the user: <enter password>
Follow the prompts to configure other settings such as email notification for bug updates.
After the configuration is complete, run the testserver.pl script to verify that the installation was successful.
$ sudo ./testserver.pl http://localhost/bugzilla/
Open the URL http://localhost/bugzilla/ in your browser to access the Bugzilla web interface and log in with the default administrator account credentials.
Username: admin
Password: password
In this tutorial, we have covered the steps needed to install Bugzilla on an OpenBSD system. You can now start tracking and managing bugs in your software effectively.
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