<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Administrator's Guide</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="phpBugTracker" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Working with Bugs" HREF="bugdetail.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Installation Instructions" HREF="installation.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="docs.css"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >phpBugTracker</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bugdetail.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="installation.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="ADMINGUIDE">Chapter 2. Administrator's Guide</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="adminguide.html#REQUIREMENTS" >Requirements</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="installation.html" >Installation Instructions</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="configuration.html" >Configuration Options</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN108"><P >One of the main design goals of phpBugTracker is to make installation and administration easy. In fact, the difficulty of installing bugzilla was a key motivator for phpBugTracker's existence.</P ></DIV ></BLOCKQUOTE ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="REQUIREMENTS">2.1. Requirements</H1 ><P >Here is a list of things you need to have installed before you can install phpBugTracker:</P ><UL ><LI ><P >A web server (Apache, IIS, etc.) configured to run PHP scripts. The PHP version must be later than 4.0.6.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >PEAR::DB. This is the database abstraction layer that comes with PEAR, which is included with recent distributions of PHP.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >A database server. phpBugTracker has been tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL (>= 7.1 required) and Oracle 8. If you wish to run this package on another type of database, I am more than willing to support more types of databases if you are willing to help with testing.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >A database created on your database server for use with phpBugTracker. You will need to supply this database name during the installation process.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Smarty templates (<A HREF="http://smarty.php.net/" TARGET="_top" >http://smarty.php.net/</A >). If you do not have smarty templates already installed, a package of phpBugTracker is distributed that has smarty included and ready to go.</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugdetail.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="installation.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Working with Bugs</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Installation Instructions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >