Is Bugzilla on Windows/IIS a Bad Idea?

[Thomas, Steve]

I upgraded to 2.20 and set my smtpserver param to our main internal mail
server, along with trying out "localhost" (there is an smtpserver
running on the local system). No luck. There are no errors, and
otherwise no indication that there is anything wrong, except for the
fact that nothing happens. I will try to track down the code again, but
I suspect that Mail:Mailer is broken somehow.

 

 

Steve.

 

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From: developers-owner at bugzilla.org
[mailto:developers-owner at bugzilla.org] On Behalf Of Habers, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 6:31 AM
To: developers at bugzilla.org
Subject: Re: Is Bugzilla on Windows/IIS a Bad Idea?

 

Hi Steve,

I finished upgrading our company BugZilla install to 2.20rc2 this past
weekend and am running on IIS and have been running on Windows for 3
years now with various versions. I have to say, things are so much
better now, but there are still some minor issues. Checksetup.pl did not
run for me as is. The main reason in my case was that I was upgrading a
pretty old BZ database and checksetup bombed on me repeatedly trying to
convert some of my tables. I'd elaborate, but it doesn't sound like you
had that issue. However, I was able to get past the issues by searching
on google and in the mozilla.bugzilla.org site. For some reason I did
have to modify the first line of all the CGI files to point to my Perl
path, which probably means I screwed up because I didn't have to do this
when I installed 2.18 on a clean environment. Anyway, to make a long
story short, email worked right out of the box for me. On Version 2.20
you should be prompted to enter your smtp server during one of the
checksetup runs. I didn't have to touch anything aside from that. I
would recommend giving 2.20 a shot if that is not what you attempted to
install and if it was what you installed, you probably have a problem on
your smtp box. I have some horror stories about getting email to work on
prior versions, but was overall very impressed with the progress the
bugzilla team has made in providing substantial built in support for the
OS I have no choice but to use and support in my job.

 

Regards,

Mark

 

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From: developers-owner at bugzilla.org
[mailto:developers-owner at bugzilla.org] On Behalf Of Thomas, Steve
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:37 PM
To: developers at bugzilla.org
Subject: Is Bugzilla on Windows/IIS a Bad Idea?

 

Hey folks,

 

After some hacking, I have managed to get Bugzilla completely working on
a Windows/IIS instance (with ActivePerl, etc. etc.).

 

Mail, of course, doesn't work, even though I have the new build that is
supposed to make it so you don't have to do anything on Windows to make
it work (like you did before, wherein you had to hack code to make it
work).

 

I spent some amount of time hacking through the Mail:Mailing stuff and
so on, and discovered that, as near as I can tell, its not even close to
working. My initial take is that it will require a LOT more hacking to
make mail work on Windows, so the "fix" from before actually made the
situation much worse. (Note that this is my *initial take* -- I hope
that I'm completely wrong and there's an easy fix, but I didn't see one
anywhere).

 

My overall question is this: should I just give up trying to make
Bugzilla work on Windows, and is it a lost cause? Is there any
significant installed base that is on Windows?

 

Thanks again for your help,

 

 

Steve Thomas

 

 

 

 

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