How to Install Bugzilla on shared hosting server

[srinat...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to install bugzilla on shared hosting provider ?
Shell access or cron is not provided.
I tried calling checksetup.pl from a php file and went to that file
through broswer.
At that time I'm getting "checksetup.pl cannot run from a web browser"
from bugzilla.
Thanks

[Thorsten Schöning]

Guten Tag srinat...@gmail.com,
am Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013 um 05:39 schrieben Sie:

> Is there a way to install bugzilla on shared hosting provider ?
> Shell access or cron is not provided.

Without shell access it's a bit difficult and unsupported. There may
be alternatives like hosted Bugzilla from other providers or your
hoster may install official packages for his distribution to provide
Bugzilla for every customer.

Cron is only needed for reports and whining, but you may be able to
execute those scripts through a browser. Depending on if they check
for CGI environment or not, if they do you may still be able to create
some scripts or fake your PHP CGI environment by setting env variables
etc. so both scripts think they are not running in a CGI env. This may
be true for checksetup.pl as well, have a look at the code on how it
detects a CGI env.

Besides that, if you are able to restore a database from a dump you
could install Bugzilla locally, run checksetup.pl, dump the created
database and restore it to your web server. The database part is
important, everything else should be simple file transfers using FTP
from your local installation to the Bugzilla directory of your web
server: You need to upload the pre compiled templates from the data
folder and depending on which Perl modules are missing from your web
server you need to locally install them in your local installation
using install-module.pl, afterwards you can upload them via FTP from
the lib folder of Bugzilla.

It may be a good idea to store your local Bugzilla in the same folder
as on your web server, I don't know if any absolute file paths are
used during installation of Perl packages in the lib folder. I don't
think so, but you may want to make sure.

http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.4/en/html/nonroot.html

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Thorsten Schöning

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