rjamesd
19th October 2007, 11:37
This might apply to other Linux distributions too.
I installed bugzilla on Debian 4 Etch:
apt-get install bugzilla
Then, browsing to the bugzilla homepage on my machine, http://localhost/cgi-bin/bugzilla/ was fine.
BUT
On submitting data by clicking one of the buttons, I got an error that the page could not be found, and cgi-bin/bugzilla/cgi-bin/bugzilla was seen in the URL that caused the error.
Obviously this is wrong, but why?
Well, the bugzilla installation makes assumptions about the location of the home page, and assumes that /cgi-bin/bugzilla/ in required in the hyperlinks in the HTML, when it is not, because we are already in that location - http://localhost/cgi-bin/bugzilla
The solution is to remove this prefix /cgi-bin/bugzilla/ by editing the params file in /etc/bugzilla - edit the variable 'urlbase' to just = './'
On doing this, you will also notice that bugzilla pages have a HTML element
<link rel="Top" href="./">
instead of <link rel="Top" href="./cgi-bin/bugzilla/">
I installed bugzilla on Debian 4 Etch:
apt-get install bugzilla
Then, browsing to the bugzilla homepage on my machine, http://localhost/cgi-bin/bugzilla/ was fine.
BUT
On submitting data by clicking one of the buttons, I got an error that the page could not be found, and cgi-bin/bugzilla/cgi-bin/bugzilla was seen in the URL that caused the error.
Obviously this is wrong, but why?
Well, the bugzilla installation makes assumptions about the location of the home page, and assumes that /cgi-bin/bugzilla/ in required in the hyperlinks in the HTML, when it is not, because we are already in that location - http://localhost/cgi-bin/bugzilla
The solution is to remove this prefix /cgi-bin/bugzilla/ by editing the params file in /etc/bugzilla - edit the variable 'urlbase' to just = './'
On doing this, you will also notice that bugzilla pages have a HTML element
<link rel="Top" href="./">
instead of <link rel="Top" href="./cgi-bin/bugzilla/">