Instructions for installing BugTrack on
Windows 2000 with IIS 5.0 and Sql Server 2000
Last Update 3/3/2002

  1. Overview
  2. Requirements
  3. Installing Perl
  4. Installing Perl Extensions
  5. Installing BugTrack
  6. Creating the BugTrack Sql Server Database
  7. Creating an ODBC DSN
  8. Initializing the BugTrack Sql Server Database
  9. Configuring IIS 5.0
  10. Finish
  11. Resources


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3. Installing Perl
Understand that these instructions are for someone like myself with no background installing or using Perl. If you have some familiarity with Perl, you may know of other distributions you prefer. I chose to use ActivePerl v5.6.1 from ActiveState. Installation proceeds as follows:
  1. Goto http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl
  2. Downloading ActivePerl is a 3-step process:
    1. Verify Requirements
    2. Register
    3. Download
  3. On the Verify Requirements page, click on the button
  4. Then fill out the Register page and press again.
  5. Click on MSI to begin the download. Save the file some place safe on your hard disk.
  6. After the download is complete:
    1. Click on the Windows Start button,
    2. Go to Settings/Control Panel and then Add/Remove Programs.
    3. You should see something like:



    4. Click on the Add New Programs icon on the left. You should then see:



    5. Click on the CD or Floppy button, which starts an install wizard.
    6. Click on the Next> button, and you should see:



    7. Click on the Browse button and navigate to the Perl install file you downloaded above and Open it:



    8. That will select it in the Run Installation Program dialog box:



    9. Press the Finish button to begin installation.
    10. On the screen that follows, accept the License Agreement and press Next>. You should see:



    11. Leave everything as-is and press Next> to continue.
    12. On the next screen, leave Enable PPM3 to send profile info to ASPN selected and press Next>. Now you should see:



    13. Leave everything selected and press Next>.
    14. Press Install on the next screen. This will begin the installation process.
    15. When installation is complete, press Finish on the final screen and you're done.
    16. If your AntiVirus software is active, it may complain about msiexec.exe. In my Norton AntiVirus software, I elected to Allow this activity once and pressed OK.
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