What Setup does on Unix

This document describes what the install.sh script does when you install FogBugz 7 for Unix. It is intended to help system administrators understand how the script modifies their system, and should help you understand how FogBugz is set up so that you can diagnose and correct problems.

Although we don't recommend setting up FogBugz manually, it is possible to do so by following the instructions in this document. (Note that there is very little benefit to installing FogBugz manually. What you probably want is an automatic install with manual apache integration. Use install.sh for that.)

• Select an install location and user. Copy the Accessories, bin, Website, conf, and templates directories to this location. Create a directory named logs. Everything must be readable by the FogBugz user, and the logs and Accessories/MainIndex directories must be writable.
• Download the runtime. The name of this file can be found by running echo fogbugz-runtime-`uname`-`cat runtime.version`.tar.gz This tarball contains a single directory, runtime, that needs to be extracted into the FogBugz install directory. Fix the runtime/bin/mod-mono-server2 script to refer to the correct paths.
• Create Accessories/application.data. A template is below:

sRegistryVersion:4
sConnectionString:Driver={mysql};Server=server;Database=fogbugz;Uid=fogbugz;Pwd=fogbugz;
sURL:http://localhost/fogbugz
fProduction:0
fDebug:0
sCustom1:Version
sCustom2:Computer
fDemo:0
sCustom1Help:Enter the version where you observed this case.
sCustom2Help:Describe the computer and software environment where this case occurs.
sLanguage:en-us

You will need to modify the sConnectionString line with the correct MySQL connection paramters. To connect via a unix socket, specify a filename as the server with a leading /.

• Decide how you want to run FogBugz. This is the most complicated part. The templates directory contains a collection of files that the installer would modify to make this happen.
  
  FogBugz is a .NET web application, that uses Apache, mod_mono and mod-mono-server2 to execute. Any webserver can be used, but FogBugz requires the modified version of mono included in the runtime. It will not work with any version installed by your OS vendor. The normal install uses a private httpd server running on port 7066. A Redirect directive is optionally added to the system default httpd.conf so that port 80 requests for /fogbugz are sent to the correct server.
  
  In short, in order to run FogBugz, you need a webserver serving the Website directory. It needs to send any request for an .asp or .php page to FogBugz.dll. FogBugz.dll must be served using a mod-mono-server2 (or xsp2) process started with the version of mono included in runtime.
  
  What install.sh will try to do for an integrated install: Create conf/httpd.conf from templates/httpd.conf. This is the config file for the FogBugz apache server.
  
  Create conf/redirect.conf. This sets up the necessary URL redirection for http://localhost/fogbugz. The file /etc/apache/httpd.conf (or appropriate path) is then modified to include redirect.conf. A sample redirect.conf follows.

# Always redirect to get add trailing slash
Redirect /fogbugz http://ted-vm1/fogbugz/
<IfModule !proxy_module>
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so
</IfModule>
<IfModule !proxy_http_module>
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so
</IfModule>
ProxyPass /fogbugz/ http://localhost:7066/

• Perform MySQL or SQLite setup. The database and user specified in your connection string must exist. The user must be granted full access to the database. For new installs, the Version table must be created before FogBugz is started: "CREATE TABLE Version (ixVersion INT)".
• Run the heartbeat service. The bin directory contains a .NET program called heartbeat.exe. It must be running in order for search and mail operations to work. heartbeat.exe is a long running process. It only needs to be started once.