Bugzilla REST import/export API installation on Ubuntu 10.04

I wanted to export, and import bugs to and from Bugzilla. From the bugzilla irc channel I got a tip about REST API.

This isn't anything supplied by Bugzilla by default, so a separate install is needed, including a couple of patches to Bugzilla itself.

My setup is currently a default Bugzilla 3.6.2 installation on Ubuntu 10.04.

First off, get dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libcatalyst-perl libcatalyst-modules-perl libmoose-perl apache2 \
libapache2-mod-fastcgi libfcgi-perl libfcgi-procmanager-perl mercurial liblog-handler-perl libarray-diff-perl \
libcatalyst-action-rest-perl libdata-walk-perl libdatetime-format-iso8601-perl libmodule-install-perl -y

PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install BZ::Client"
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install Moose"
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install Test::More"
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install Catalyst::Controller::REST" #(inc. optional modules)
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Handler"
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install Slurp"

Patch Bugzilla using the patches from: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:REST_API *DEPRECATED*

cd /var/www/bugzilla
wget https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=408495 -O JSON_template_for_config.cgi.diff
patch < JSON_template_for_config.cgi.diff
wget https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=475044 -O template/en/default/config.json.tmpl
chown root:www-data template/en/default/config.json.tmpl

Get the bzapi files:

cd /var/www
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/webtools/bzapi bzapi

Copy extension into place and set up config file:

cd /var/www/bzapi
cp -r extension/BzAPI ../bugzilla/extension/
cp bugzilla_api.conf.sample bugzilla_api.conf
nano bugzilla_api.conf

Check that all dependencies are met, by trying to start the fastcgi server:

cd /var/www/bzapi
./script/bugzilla_api_server.pl

Set up apache:

a2enmod ssl
nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/bzapi

Example config for apache (I simply added these lines to my bugzilla installation):

# Config for port 80 without ssl (will redirect)
  FastCgiServer /var/www/bzapi/script/bugzilla_api_fastcgi.pl -processes 10 -idle-timeout 180
  Alias /bzapi /var/www/bzapi/script/bugzilla_api_fastcgi.pl/

# Config for port 443 with ssl
  Alias /bzapi /var/www/bzapi-1.0/script/bugzilla_api_fastcgi.pl/

Restart apache to enable config:

apache2ctl restart

At this point I hit a problem with: Can't locate Bugzilla/API.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .. /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Module/Runtime.pm line 317. I solved it by adding the following to line 2 in /var/www/bzapi/script/bugzilla_api_fastcgi.pl:

use lib "/var/www/bzapi/lib";

And then restart apache again.

OpenDS kinks

When trying to import users from NIS, typically using Migrationtools, you need to allow import of hashed passwords into the OpenDS server.

This is done by:

Allow LDIF imports of encoded passwords: config/config.ldif, under cn=Default Password Policy,cn=Password Policies,cn=config

change ds-cfg-allow-pre-encoded-passwords : true