Instructions for installing BugTrack on
Windows 2000 with IIS 5.0 and Sql Server 2000
Last Update 10/4/2002

  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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4a. Installing Perl Extensions
You'll need several additions to the standard Perl installation in order to run BugTrack. Follow these steps to install them:
Note: If you are behind a firewall you may need to use the
alternate method for downloading and installing the Perl extensions.

  1. Click the Windows Start button, select Run, type in command and press OK.
  2. Navigate to your Perl installation subdirectory (probably C:\Perl) and make it your current subdirectory.
  3. On the command line, type PPM and press the Enter key.
  4. Type install CGI and press the Enter key. Answer Yes to install CGI.
  5. Type install DBD::ODBC and press the Enter key. Answer Yes to install DBD::ODBC.
  6. Type install DBI and press the Enter key. Answer Yes to install DBI.
  7. Type install Mail::Sendmail and press the Enter key. Answer Yes to install Sendmail.
That concludes the installation of Perl. Now on to installing BugTrack.
4b. Installing Perl Extensions from behind a firewall
If you are behind a firewall, the instructions above may not work. In that event, try these instead:
  1. Begin by creating a modules subdirectory at the root of your Perl installation directory (e.g., C:\Perl\modules).
  2. Next, download these 4 zip files from http://www.activestate.com/ppmpackages/zips/6xx-builds-only and place them in the modules subdirectory you just created:

    1. cgi.zip
    2. dbd-odbc.zip
    3. dbi.zip
    4. mail-sendmail.zip

  3. Unzip each file into a subdirectory of the modules directory. If you're using WinZip, you can simply right-click on each zip file and select Extract to folder C:\Perl\modules\xxx, where xxx is the name of the zip file you're pointing at.
  4. Click on the Windows Start button, select run, type in command, and click on OK.
  5. Navigate to the C:\Perl\modules subdirectory.
  6. In each subdirectory you create when you unzip the files there will be a file with the ppd extension. For instance, you should have a file named c:\perl\modules\cgi\cgi.ppd. To install these extensions all you need to do is type ppm install {ppd-file-name}, as in:

    C:\Perl\modules> ppm install cgi\cgi.ppd

  7. Execute the ppm install ... for each of the other files and that should complete the installation of the required Perl extensions.
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