3. Installation and Maintenance Guide — Bugzilla Harmony documentation

# 3. Installation and Maintenance Guide

Warning

This section, as is, is copied over from the mainline Bugzilla install documentation. There are significant changes in how Harmony should be deployed. As such, do not refer to this documentation for now, but use the Docker instructions as a guide. The Bugzilla team are revising this section.

Note

If you just want to use Bugzilla, you do not need to install it. None of this chapter is relevant to you. Ask your Bugzilla administrator for the URL to access it from your web browser. See the User Guide.

Bugzilla can be installed under Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and perhaps other operating systems. However, if you are setting it up on a dedicated machine and you have control of the operating system to use, the Bugzilla team wholeheartedly recommends Linux as an extremely versatile, stable, and robust operating system that provides an ideal environment for Bugzilla. In that case, read the Quick Start instructions.

If you wish to run a local evaluation instance of Bugzilla, see the Docker instructions.

- 3.1. Evaluating with Docker
- 3.2. Quick Start (Ubuntu Linux 22.04)
- 3.3. Linux
- 3.4. Windows
- 3.5. Mac OS X
- 3.6. Web Server
- 3.7. Database Server
- 3.8. Essential Post-Installation Configuration
- 3.9. Optional Post-Install Configuration
- 3.10. Migrating From Other Bug-Tracking Systems
- 3.11. Moving Bugzilla Between Machines
- 3.12. Upgrading
- 3.13. Backups
- 3.14. Sanity Check
- 3.15. Merging Accounts
- 3.16. One Installation, Multiple Instances

To report bugs in and suggest updates for this documentation, please file them on our bug tracker.