1008860 - Does "Multiple Bugzilla databases with a single installation" works?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 629975

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[Christophe JAILLET]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

I followed steps in:
   http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.2/en/html/multiple-bz-dbs.html

I exported the variable PROJECT and checked it via:
   echo $PROJECT

PROJECT=DM_Modif, in my case.

I'm using bugzilla 4.2.9 (but is ready to upgrade if it solve my issue)


Actual results:

1) when I ran checksetup.pl, the file localconfig.<PROJECT NAME> has not been created. So I copied the localconfig file to localconfig.<PROJECT NAME>


2) after that, I started to have some:
    Error reading ./data/DM_Modif/params: Permission denied at Bugzilla/Config.pm line 323.
So, I create the directories, changed permission...
Finally I copied the whole data/params folder to data/DM_Modif/param
Then chgrp -R www-data DM_Modif

Then new errors linked to failure to create temp files.

- The directory layout that is asked is not in conformance with what is described in doc. (i.e. localconfig.<PROJECT> template/en/<PROJECT>)

- checksetup.pl does not fix groups in <PROJECT> files/directories


Expected results:

If I have not made an error (sic!), then all should have been processed smoothly.

I expected to only have to manage the localconfig files and template/<lang>/<PROJECT> files

So, I'm wondering if the multi-database version is still working, or if I missed something?

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Christophe JAILLET from comment #0)
> So, I'm wondering if the multi-database version is still working, or if I
> missed something?

You missed something. :) You never compiled the "main" installation, i.e. without specifying PROJECT first.

Comment 2

[Christophe JAILLET]

Hmm, will try it.

However, the sentence in the doc stating: "To set up an alternate installation, just export PROJECT=foo before running checksetup.pl for the first time"

for the *first* time is ambiguous here, then. 

Thanks for feedback.

Comment 3

[Christophe JAILLET]

Ok. Just in case it can help someone else.

Doing:
export PROJECT=xx
sudo ./checksetup.pl
==> KO, doesn't work for me

sudo PROJECT=xx ./checksetup.pl
==> OK (first run, create the correct localconfig.xx file, edition of the config file, 2nd run create directories and setup up everything)

(found on http://mozilla.6506.n7.nabble.com/Multiple-Database-setup-question-td78619.html)


Maybe doc could be completed when using sudo.


Thx and sorry for the noise.