Testlink
Testlink Notes</br > 2019-04-10 Wednesday
Contents
^ Overview
This wiki article holds notes on Testlink 1.9.12 installation and configuration, motivated by need to restore an off-lined installation of Testlink along with its contact files found in the originally configured upload_area . . .
^ References to Testlink
We started this effort back in 2018 Q3 . . .
2018-09-06
2019-04-25
We may need to install PHP 5.6 to get Testlink to work, to talk with MYSQL database server. Unfortunately both the following articles refer to PPA of Andrej Sury which is not reachable from work site where needed . . .
2019-04-10 Wednesday
It looks like on a host running Apache2, PHP and MYSQL that Testlink can be set up with a symlink in /var/www pointing to a directory outside Apache's documentRootPath:
user@localhost:/var/www$ ls -l total 36 lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 28 Oct 31 2011 blogs -> /usr/local/share/b2evolution drwxr-x--- 16 root www-data 4096 Jan 24 2014 bugzilla -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 349 Nov 28 2017 BUGZILLA_TODO drwxr-xr-x 7 1003 1003 4096 Oct 1 2012 documents lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 27 Nov 16 2011 dotproject -> /usr/local/share/dotproject -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1941 Oct 28 2015 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1915 Jan 14 2013 index.oldhtml lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 18 2012 mantis -> /usr/local/share/mantisbt-1.2.11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 4 2013 math -> /usr/local/share/MathJax-v2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 17 May 13 2011 phpinfo.php lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 13 2014 testlink -> /usr/local/share/testlink-1.9.12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 13 2014 testlink-new -> /usr/local/share/testlink-1.9.12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug 13 2014 testlink-old -> /usr/local/share/testlink-1.9.11 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jan 19 2017 wiki user@localhost:/var/www$
The stuff in /usr/local/share has these permissions:
user@localhost:/usr/local/share$ ls -l total 76 drwxr-xr-x 14 root www-data 4096 Feb 24 2012 b2evolution drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 May 9 2011 ca-certificates drwxr-xr-x 14 root www-data 4096 Nov 16 2011 dotproject drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 May 9 2011 fonts drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 26 2013 hide drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 22 2013 kcfinder-2.51 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 2011 man drwxr-xr-x 16 root www-data 12288 Oct 31 2012 mantisbt-1.2.11 drwxr-xr-x 9 root www-data 4096 Feb 23 2012 MathJax-v1.1a drwxr-xr-x 10 1002 1002 4096 Jan 4 2013 MathJax-v2.1 drwxrwsr-x 7 root staff 4096 May 9 2011 sgml drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 14 2014 testlink-1.9.11 drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 22 2017 testlink-1.9.12 drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data www-data 4096 May 30 2014 testlink-1.9.8 drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 13 2014 testlink_custom drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Sep 21 2012 texmf drwxrwsr-x 6 root staff 4096 May 9 2011 xml user@localhost:/usr/local/share$
Search for PHP's error log file path and name:
$ for file in `locate php.ini | grep etc | grep 7.0`; do grep -n error_log $file; done
^ Testlink Config Variables
Before running web-based install script must set ($tlCfg->log_path) and ($g_repositoryPath) . . .
136 - log directory ($tlCfg->log_path) 137 - upload directory ($g_repositoryPath)
Figure x - two Testlink config files contain variable $g_repositoryPath:
/mnt/sdb5/usr/local/share/testlink-1.9.12$ grep -nr g_repositoryPath ./* ./config.inc.php:1016:$g_repositoryPath = '/var/testlink/upload_area/'; /* unix example */ ./custom_config.inc.php.example:39:// $g_repositoryPath = '/var/testlink-ga-testlink-code/upload_area/'; /* unix example */ ./lib/functions/files.inc.php:116: global $g_repositoryPath; ./lib/functions/files.inc.php:118: $dest = $g_repositoryPath.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.session_id().".dummy.gz"; ./lib/functions/common.php:464: global $g_repositoryPath; ./lib/functions/common.php:468: $ret = checkForRepositoryDir($g_repositoryPath); ./README:137:- upload directory ($g_repositoryPath) /mnt/sdb5/usr/local/share/testlink-1.9.12$
Testlink upload directory and log directory are on the old server set to the same path:
/mnt/sdb5/var/testlink$ ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 25 11:51 logs drwxr-xr-x 157 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 3 2013 upload_area /mnt/sdb5/var/testlink$
^ Restore Testlink database back-up
May be able to avoid some of the initial config steps if what we really need is to restore a Testlink database back-up . . . however will this back-up contain paths to files which were stored in a different location in the original Testlink installation?
^ Recommended sticky bit settings - logs and upload_area
Sticky bit settings recommended:
Read/write permissions For security reasons we suggest that directories tagged with [S] on following messages, will be made UNREACHEABLE from browser. Give a look to README file, section 'Installation & SECURITY' to understand how to change the defaults. Checking if /opt/testlink-1.9.12/gui/templates_c directory exists OK Checking if /opt/testlink-1.9.12/gui/templates_c directory is writable (by user used to run webserver process) OK Checking if /var/local/testlink-1p9p12/logs/ directory exists [S] OK Checking if /var/local/testlink-1p9p12/logs/ directory is writable (by user used to run webserver process) OK Checking if /var/local/testlink-1p9p12/upload_area/ directory exists [S] OK Checking if /var/local/testlink-1p9p12/upload_area/ directory is writable (by user used to run webserver process) OK
^ Manual Copy of Logs and Upload Content
On new 18.04 LTS host created /var/testlink-1p9p12 with ownership www-data:www-data, and created symlink /var/testlink -> /var/testlink-1p9p12. Invoke `rsync` to copy each group of files over from mounted volume constituting old server file system to new server disk partition at like paths. Steps in list-wise summary:
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$ cd /var -
$ sudo mkdir -pv ./logs ./upload_area -
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ./* -
$ sudo rsync -avzpt /path/to/original/testlink/logfiles/* ./logs -
$ sudo rsync -avzpt /path/to/original/testlink/uploaded/files/* ./upload_area
