User talk:^Ben

Bug tracking software

As mentioned in the previous article, email is an insufficent way too manage bugs. That's why it's recommended to use specialised bug tracking software.

I will show you how to setup and use mantis bug tracker.

Step 1:

Download mantis from (site) and upload too your website.

Step 2:

Create a database ahead of time.

Step 3:

You need to populate the database, this is very easy if you have access to phpmyadmin, first select the mantis database, then either find the populate_sql.sql file in the /sql folder or just copy and paste all of what's contained in that file into the execute sql queries field.

Step 4:

Find the config_defaults_inc.php file and edit theese sections

# --- database variables ---------

# set these values to match your setup

# hostname should be either a hostname or connection string to supply to adodb.

# For example, if you would like to connect to a mysql server on the local machine,

# set hostname to 'localhost', and db_type to 'mysql'.

# If you need to supply a port to connect to, set hostname as 'localhost:3306'.

$g_hostname = 'localhost';

$g_db_username = 'username';

$g_db_password = 'password';

$g_database_name = 'databasename';

$g_db_type = 'mysql';

Make sure the settings presented here match your chosen database.

Step 5:

Navigate your webbrowser to the mantis directory and login with the default provided username and password that is supplied with the installation.

Username: administrator Password: root

Step 6:

Learn how to use the bug tracking software, it's fairly straight forward. You need to create a project first before you can do anything with it.