275943 - 2.16 docs imply that it's necessary to run checksetup.pl as the webserver user

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Section 4.1.9 in the 2.16 docs imply that you need to su to the webserver user
before running checksetup.pl the second time.  In 90% of installations this
actually causes more problems than it solves unless the user has previously
chowned the entire contents of the bugzilla directory to the webserver user first.

The 2.18 and tip docs both don't mention this at all, so someone apparently
already cleaned it up and didn't backport it.

Comment 1

[Shane H. W. Travis]

Attachment: Doc changes for 2.16

Back-ports the information from 2.18. Direct translation is not possible, as
this file changed a LOT to get to 2.18, but this seems like a reasonable
transcription.

Comment 2

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Comment on attachment 173666 [details] [diff] [review]
Doc changes for 2.16

I've reviewed this by checking it applies and looking at the patch; I can not
get 2.16 documents to build because they are invalid XML.

Comment 3

[Shane H. W. Travis]

Checking in installation.xml;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/xml/installation.xml,v  <--  
installation.xml
new revision: 1.18.2.23; previous revision: 1.18.2.22
done