289036 - Web-Based Installation Tool For Bugzilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270066

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Most popular web-based applications have a web-based setup tool. We are somewhat
unique (or behind the times, if you want to look at it that way) in that our
setup tool works entirely and only from the command line, and *then* after you
install you have to go to the editparams page and set things up properly.

I think that we could definitely have a setup.cgi that ran necessary setup for
Bugzilla, and possibly also presented a form with the basic params that
*everybody* needs to configure.

If this was your first time running setup.cgi, it could ask you for the basic
localconfig info (like the db username and pass), and then go off and do its thing.

Otherwise, it would require you to log in as somebody in the admin group.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Note that we currently assume that users want the site to have secure
permissions on setup in our existing directions, and setting permissions
appropriately for that requires root access on the machine.  A web-based utility
would need to assume the opposite, and instruct users to enter something from
the command line if they needed to beef up the permissions.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270066 ***