#Bugzilla 5 install#

Now Perl is installed successfully but you will need to install some other required dependencies. Next, you'll need to verify this installation using the following command and make sure it's greater than 5.14.

sudo yum -y install perl perl-CPAN perl-DBD-MySQL sudo yum -y install epel-release Install Perlīugzilla requires Perl 5.14 or greater so here we will be installing perl 5.16.x with some required Perl modules using the following command. Next, install the EPEL repository using the following command.

#Bugzilla 5 update#

If you have already registered a domain from Alibaba Cloud or any other host, you can update its domain nameserver records.įirst login to your server and upgrade all the available packages using the following command. A domain name registered from Alibaba Cloud. Your ECS instance must have at least 1GB RAM and 1 Core processor.Ģ.

#Bugzilla 5 how to#

If you don't know about how to set up your ECS instance, you can refer to this tutorialor quick-start guide. If you are a new user, you can get a free account in your Alibaba Cloud account. You must have an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance activated and have verified your valid payment method. In this guide, we will show you how to install Bugzilla bug tracking system on your Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) CentOS 7 server. You can communicate with your Dev team easily and submit and review patches using Bugzilla. Bugzilla is widely used by various organizations to improve their software application because it allows you to track defects and code changes in your applications. It is developed and used by the Mozilla project. Tech Share is Alibaba Cloud's incentive program to encourage the sharing of technical knowledge and best practices within the cloud community.īugzilla is free and open source web-based bug tracking tool. You can generate reports in HTML, XML, CSV, or Atom, as well as output line, bar, and pie charts and graphs for reporting.īesides advanced tracking, template creation and usage, and database health check and data inconsistency scanning, the tool also enables automating recurrent processes and implementing advanced bug and issue checking methods.By Sajid Qureshi, Alibaba Cloud Tech Share Author. And, by the developer's indications, the mod_perl module is designed and recommended for optimized and improved performance and very high concurrent access (needed when the Bugzilla utility is being used by big organizations).īugzilla offers a ton of features of options that include advanced bug searches with specific rules and query inputs.

Nonetheless, Bugzilla also supports Oracle databases, but some known issues might come up (read more about them here).įor testing purposes, the recommended database is SQLite.

This is a web-based utility that needs to be first installed and configured on your server, and it requires Perl.Īlso, the application is compatible with many database types, which is needed for handling the inventory of bugs and fixes you want to detect, list, and fix.Īs such, primarily, the developer recommends and supports full integration and implementation with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Built and primarily used by Mozilla, the free-of-cost package can be accessed extremely easily from Firefox (but not only), which Bugzilla uses as an interface. The tool is compatible with both Unix-like systems and with Windows OS. Bugzilla is a robust system that allows you to integrate a low-level bug-tracking system, optimization engine, and issue management application into your environment.