Talk:Mantis Bug Tracker

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Is anyone hosting a Mantis bug tracker on DreamHost?

I've installed version 1.03a and it runs really slowly - is there some configuration thing I need to change or something? It takes about 10 seconds to load a basic view of an issue,and there's only 5 in the database! On my previous host, this was virtually instantaneous.

Any help greatly appreciated! --Timteasdale 10:45, 16 Jul 2005 (PDT)

A google search brought up a blog with an entry on this: Gibson's Blog

Here's what it has to say (copied from the blog):

Recently, I decided to set up Mantis Bug Tracker on my webhosting account, Dreamhost. So I download the latest version 1.0.8 and proceeded to FTP the files over to my webhosting account. That is when the nightmare started. I ran the install.php file from my browser and I got a persistent “Does administrative user have access to the database?” error. After checking that my user name, password and domain name was correct. I still could not fix the error and Google was not helpful either. Then in a final act of desperation, I decided to fire up my Dreamhost panel and create the database “mantis” inside and then put that as the database in a field inside install.php and voila, it worked and that irritating access message disappeared.

But then, the nightmare continues. While the install.php was creating the tables inside the “mantis” database, it threw an obscure error about an error in a line of the install.php file and it was unable to continue recreating the tables. So, I decided to manually create it by selecting the “Print SQL Queries instead of Writing to the Database Attempt Installation” option and then copying and pasting the SQL queries generated into the PhpMyAdmin panel.

This fixed the problem and now my Mantis Bug Tracker is up and running, but it has been an ardous journey.

I tried these steps and it works. The variables in question can be found near the top of admin.php. The SQL queries can be copied and pasted as a block rather than one at a time.

--Eliya 18:25, 29 January 2008 (PST)