Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Installing Bugzilla on a Windows XP computer already running Apache and MySQL

The complete expalnation I followed is here.

The first task was to verify that I can run another instance of Apache on a different port and can configure this instance to run as a Windows service.
This process is described here.
I copied httpd.conf file with the name "httpd_for_bugzill.conf" and have made the changes recommended in the article above.
Then I open a cmd window and typed:
apache -k install -n "Apache for Bugzilla" -f "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/conf/httpd_for_bugzilla.conf"
This installed the new windows serivice "Apache for Bugzilla" which uses "httpd_for_bugzilla.conf" file.
Then I went ot "Control Panel/Administartive Tools/Services" and selected "Apache for Bugzilla" -> Start to start the new Win service.
I downloaded latest stable Bugzilla release from http://www.bugzilla.org/download and I have uncompressed the .tar.gz archive.
The rest of the installation was quite straight forward, probably excluding the fact that some Perl modules described in the installation guide above where not found by the Perl packages management utility (e.g. GD package), so I did not install them
The tricky thing was an email configuration, but I finished that quite fast since fortunately we have a configured SMTP server.

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