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# Tinderbox INSTALL guide
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This is a quick guide for installing the tinderbox server.
1) If you want to track checkins with tinderbox, you will need to
install bonsai first.
2) In order to tighten access to the tinderbox files, you will need to
create a tinderbox user & group for exclusive use by the tinderbox server.
Add the mail user to your tinderbox group so that build logs can be
processed.
3) Checkout the latest copy of the tinderbox server:
cd /builds/cvs && cvs -z3 co mozilla/webtools/tinderbox
4) Edit the tinderbox Makefile and set the variables in the
SERVER_CONFIGURATION as appropriate. Let's assume that you set:
TINDERBOX_DIR=/var/www/html/tinderbox
TINDERBOX_USER=tinderbox
TINDERBOX_GROUP=tinderbox
vi mozilla/webtools/tinderbox/Makefile
5) Install the tinderbox server into the system directory
sudo make -C mozilla/webtools/tinderbox install
6) Edit your webserver configuration file and setup the virtual server
for your tinderbox as well as limit permissions to certain sensitive files.
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# Example Virtual host entry for tinderbox for apache 2.0.x
# Replace 'company.com' with your company and '/var/www/html' with the
# actual location of your tinderbox installation
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ServerName tinderbox.company.com
ServerAlias tinderbox
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
SuexecUserGroup tinderbox tinderbox
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ http://tinderbox.company.com/tinderbox/ [R,L,NE]
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Allow from all
Deny from all
# Deny access to private tree data
Deny from all
Deny from all
Deny from all
# End tinderbox apache configuration
7) Add an email alias for 'tinderbox-daemon' on the local server and pipe
all mail through the handemail.pl script.
Assuming that you're using sendmail, add the following line to /etc/aliases
tinderbox-daemon: "|/var/www/html/tinderbox/handlemail.pl /var/www/html/tinderbox"
If sendmail uses smrsh, you may need to create a symlink under /etc/smrsh.
ln -sf /var/www/html/tinderbox/handlemail.pl /etc/smrsh/handlemail.pl
8) Restart apache and go to http://tinderbox.company.com/tinderbox/ .
Click on 'Administer' and enter the information for your new tinderbox tree.
9) pull the tinderbox client source and start sending build reports
to tinderbox-daemon@
(cd /builds/cvs && cvs -z3 co mozilla/tools/tinderbox )