1124082 - Master branch doesn't always create .htaccess files

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[Jochen Wiedmann]

I've got a development installation running the Bugzilla master branch and notice, that .htaccess files aren't always created. For example:

[root@fedora21 bugzilla]# git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   .gitignore
	deleted:    .htaccess

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
[root@fedora21 bugzilla]# perl checksetup.pl 
* This is Bugzilla 5.1 on perl 5.18.4
* Running on Linux 3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 23:32:49 UTC 2015

Checking perl modules...
Checking for               CGI.pm (v3.51)     ok: found v4.03 
Checking for           Digest-SHA (any)       ok: found v5.93 
Checking for             TimeDate (v2.23)     ok: found v2.24 
Checking for             DateTime (v0.75)     ok: found v1.12 
Checking for    DateTime-TimeZone (v1.64)     ok: found v1.76 
Checking for                  DBI (v1.614)    ok: found v1.631 
Checking for     Template-Toolkit (v2.24)     ok: found v2.25 
Checking for         Email-Sender (v1.300011) ok: found v1.300016 
Checking for           Email-MIME (v1.904)    ok: found v1.926 
Checking for                  URI (v1.55)     ok: found v1.65 
Checking for       List-MoreUtils (v0.32)     ok: found v0.33 
Checking for    Math-Random-ISAAC (v1.0.1)    ok: found v1.004 
Checking for           File-Slurp (v9999.13)  ok: found v9999.19 
Checking for              JSON-XS (v2.01)     ok: found v3.01 

Checking available perl DBD modules...
Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    ok: found v4.027 
Checking for           DBD-Oracle (v1.19)     not found 
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v3.4.1 
Checking for           DBD-SQLite (v1.29)     ok: found v1.42 

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for                   GD (v1.20)     ok: found v2.50 
Checking for                Chart (v2.4.1)    ok: found v2.4.8 
Checking for          Template-GD (any)       ok: found v1.56 
Checking for           GDTextUtil (any)       ok: found v0.86 
Checking for              GDGraph (any)       ok: found v1.48 
Checking for           MIME-tools (v5.406)    ok: found v5.505 
Checking for          libwww-perl (any)       ok: found v6.06 
Checking for             XML-Twig (any)       ok: found v3.48 
Checking for          PatchReader (v0.9.6)    ok: found v0.9.6 
Checking for            perl-ldap (any)       ok: found v0.64 
Checking for          Authen-SASL (any)       ok: found v2.16 
Checking for         Net-SMTP-SSL (v1.01)     ok: found v1.01 
Checking for           RadiusPerl (any)       ok: found v0.24 
Checking for            SOAP-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v1.11 
Checking for          XMLRPC-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v0.717 
Checking for             JSON-RPC (any)       ok: found v1.04 
Checking for           Test-Taint (v1.06)     ok: found v1.06 
Checking for          HTML-Parser (v3.67)     ok: found v3.71 
Checking for        HTML-Scrubber (any)       ok: found v0.11 
Checking for               Encode (v2.21)     ok: found v2.67 
Checking for        Encode-Detect (any)       ok: found v1.01 
Checking for          Email-Reply (any)       ok: found v1.202 
Checking for HTML-FormatText-WithLinks (v0.13)     not found 
Checking for          TheSchwartz (v1.1)      not found 
Checking for       Daemon-Generic (any)       not found 
Checking for             mod_perl (v1.999022) ok: found v2.000009 
Checking for     Apache-SizeLimit (v0.96)     ok: found v0.97 
Checking for        File-MimeInfo (any)       ok: found v0.26 
Checking for           IO-stringy (any)       ok: found v2.110 
Checking for      Cache-Memcached (any)       ok: found v1.30 
Checking for        Text-Markdown (v1.0.26)   ok: found v1.000029 
Checking for  File-Copy-Recursive (any)       not found 
Checking for              mod_env (any)       ok 
Checking for          mod_headers (any)       ok 
Checking for          mod_expires (any)       ok 
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* HTML-FormatText-WithLinks * Inbound Email                           *
*               TheSchwartz * Mail Queueing                           *
*            Daemon-Generic * Mail Queueing                           *
*       File-Copy-Recursive * Documentation                           *
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COMMANDS TO INSTALL OPTIONAL MODULES:

HTML-FormatText-WithLinks: /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl HTML::FormatText::WithLinks
    TheSchwartz: /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl TheSchwartz
 Daemon-Generic: /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl Daemon::Generic
File-Copy-Recursive: /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl File::Copy::Recursive


To attempt an automatic install of every required and optional module
with one command, do:

  /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl --all

Reading ./localconfig...

OPTIONAL NOTE: If you want to be able to use the 'difference between two
patches' feature of Bugzilla (which requires the PatchReader Perl module
as well), you should install patchutils from:

    http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/patchutils/

Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    ok: found v4.027 
Checking for                MySQL (v5.0.15)   ok: found v10.0.15-MariaDB 

Removing existing compiled templates...
Precompiling templates...done.
Fixing file permissions...

Now that you have installed Bugzilla, you should visit the 'Parameters'
page (linked in the footer of the Administrator account) to ensure it
is set up as you wish - this includes setting the 'urlbase' option to
the correct URL.
checksetup.pl complete.
[root@fedora21 bugzilla]# ls -al .htaccess
ls: cannot access .htaccess: No such file or directory

From reading the output of "git status", I deduce that the .htaccess file in the topmost directory is under git control. But that feels odd, given bug 1122419.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

(In reply to Jochen Wiedmann from comment #0)
> From reading the output of "git status", I deduce that the .htaccess file in
> the topmost directory is under git control.

it is.

> But that feels odd, given bug 1122419.

wrong bug number?


i suspect something else has deleted/renamed .htaccess in your installation.
this deleted file won't be "restored" by a git pull, nor will checksetup create it if it's missing.

|git checkout .htaccess| followed running checksetup should restore the file for you.

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

jochen indicated on irc that he deleted the top level .htaccess without realising it was under version control (unlike our other .htaccess files which are generated by checksetup).