Re: Set up bugzilla-web virtual machine

[Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat everythingsolved com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> I've just done some initial set up of a VM (hosted on vbox.gnome.org)
> called bugzilla-web.

	Awesome! :-)

> It's x86_64 RHEL-5 guest with 8GB of ram allocated to it (can be
> adjusted as needed.)

	Great. How many CPUs does it have allocated to it?

>    /mnt/bugzilla-data/bugzilla.gnome.org => /var/www/bugzilla.gnome.org
>    /mnt/bugzilla-data/home => /usr/local/www/bugzilla

	I think that is OK. Usually, given the default Apache configuration on 
RHEL5, I put Bugzilla into /var/www/html/ though, not /var/www/. I don't 
know how SELinux feels about executing CGIs in a random directory under 
/var/www/, but I guess I can find out. :-)

> Max mentioned allocating 80GB of disk for the frontend, if I recall, but
> I went more conservative - we have less than 1GB of space being used by
> the web-frontend parts of bugzilla.gnome.org currently. We can always
> resize the LVM partitions as necessary.

	Yeah, those look OK for now. Does it have a swap partition also, or 
just the RAM?

> 2. Creating mysql module and setting up database on
>    drawable.gnome.org.

	When you do, here's the command with all the permissions necessary for 
the Bugzilla user:

	http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.4/en/html/configuration.html#install-setupdatabase-adduser

	(Don't run any of the other commands in the install docs, though.)

> 3. Create a bugzilla module in puppet to hold the website configuration
>    and move some of the stuff from the bugzilla-web node there.

	Cool. Usually, I create a /etc/httpd/conf.d/bugzilla.conf file that 
contains the two configuration lines required by Bugzilla (as described 
here):
	http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.4/en/html/configuration.html#http-apache-mod_perl

	And make sure that KeepAlive is off in the main httpd.conf.

	-Max
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