Steps to install Bugzilla:

Softwares required
1) Perl 5.8.1 or higher
2) Database engine(Mysql/postgres/oracle)
3) Web server(Apache/wamp)
Steps:

1) First, download the bugzilla source stable release from the following site.
http://www.bugzilla.org/download/#stable
2) Move the bugzilla source folder to default directory of your web server. For Apache
its htdocs and for wamp its www.
3) Run the following command /checksetup.pl --check-modules it will display the list
of modules available and list of modules to be installed with command to install those
modules. Use those commands to install those modules one by one or use step to
install all the modules in single go.
4) Execute the following command to install all the necessary modules install-
module.pl all or else follow the steps given command prompt.

Note: It will suggest module to install Eg: ppm install Email-Mime

5) Create one new database bugzilla in your MySQL. Then Open file localconfig
and edit the following parameters.
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'bugzilla';
$db_user = 'user'; // Desired username of database
$db_pass = 'password'; // Desired password of database
6) After Changing database details, run the below command and this will initialize
database and create required tables.
checksetup.pl
7) At the time of configuration it asks a mail server hostname. Also it asks an
administrator email and password.
8) Now, Open your httpd.conf file and add the place the following steps. First of all,
enable CGI support in Apache by un commenting the AddHandler cgi-script .cgi line.
Alias /bugzilla/ htdocs/bugzilla/
<Directory "path to bugzilla">
AddHandler cgi-script cgi
DirectoryIndex index.cgi
Options +Indexes +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
9) Now hit http://localhost/bugzilla in your browser.
Note:
If you get any error such as 500 internal server error or any other page load error or your
bugzilla is not working, You need to replace First line #!/usr/bin/perl of all your .cgi files to
#!C:\Path to perl\bin

Mysql Configuration :

1) Allow large attachments and many comments
By default, MySQL will only allow you to insert things into the database that are smaller
than 1MB. Attachments may be larger than this. Also, bugzilla combines all comments on a
single bug into one field for full-text searching, and the combination of all comments on a single
bug could in some cases be larger than 1MB. To change MySQLs default, you need to edit your
MySQL configuration file, which is usually /etc/my.cnf on Linux. We recommend that you allow
at least 4MB packets by adding the "max_allowed_packet" parameter to your MySQL
configuration in the "[mysqld]" section, like this:


[mysqld]
# Allow packets up to 4MB
max_allowed_packet=4M

2) Allow small words in full-text indexes
By default, words must be at least four characters in length in order to be indexed by
MySQLs full-text indexes. This causes a lot of Bugzilla specific words to be missed, including
"cc", "ftp" and "uri". MySQL can be configured to index those words by setting the
ft_min_word_len param to the minimum size of the words to index. This can be done by
modifying the /etc/my.cnf according to the example below:

[mysqld]
# Allow small words in full-text indexes
ft_min_word_len=2


3) Permit attachments table to grow beyond 4GB
By default, MySQL will limit the size of a table to 4GB. This limit is present even if the
underlying filesystem has no such limit. To set a higher limit, follow these instructions.
After you have completed the rest of the installation (or at least the database setup parts), you
should run the MySQL command-line client and enter the following, replacing $bugs_db with
your Bugzilla database name (bugs by default):

mysql> use $bugs_db
mysql> ALTER TABLE attachments
AVG_ROW_LENGTH=1000000, MAX_ROWS=20000;

The above command will change the limit to 20GB. Mysql will have to make a temporary copy
of your entire table to do this. Ideally, you should do this when your attachments table is still
small.



Bugzilla version update:

1) From old version copy folder name data and localconfig file into new version.
2) And follow the same steps as installation. Your version update and database
migaration in done.