I tried installing Testlink 1.8 for my test management today. The installation guide is simple, but for windows users it doesn’t give much of troubleshooting steps which users face often. I figured out some solutions for the problems which windows users face while installing this application as web server.
This is the complete flow including the troubleshooting steps for most commonly faced issues:
1. Download Testlink from the site
http://sourceforge.net/projects/testlink/files/
2. Extract the source file using any free zip extractor
3. Now download any PHP Server; I’ve chosen the WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php), which is a very simple server administrator
4. WAMP uses port 80 by default, which is commonly used by many applications (including IMs like skype), so better change it to any other port (say 81)
Go to this file Drive:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\httpd.conf and change the port number
5. Now that the WAMP installation is done, place the extracted Testlink folder to the ‘www’ directory of the WAMP folder. (WAMP folder can be found on the installed drive directly Drive:\wamp)
6. Now, start the WAMP server and type the URL http://localhost:81/testlink/install/index.php
7. While this page is being opened, open your MySQL client (I use MySQL yog free edition) and create a database with name ‘testlink’ on your localhost
8. Extract the data tables and data inside the tables (using SQL restore) on this database. Both these SQL files can be found inside the test link folder that you’ve extracted. The location is Drive:\wamp\www\testlink\install\sql\mysql
9. Back at step 7, the installation page would have been open on your browser, give the location credentials:
DB URL: localhost:3306
DB User id, Password, Optional User ID and Password
10. Done, you are ready and can access the testlink
Most of the users find the below error after configuring test link & opening the page
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\testlink\lib\functions\lang_api.php on line 173
This is because the ereg command is no more used in the PHP versions > 5.2. So the solution for this is either reverting back to PHP 5.2 or lower (or) do the following tweak:
Go to the Drive:\testlink\lib\functions\ and go to line number 173 in the file ‘lang_api.php’. Change this line:
$t_lang_var = ereg_replace( ‘^TLS_’, ”, $t_var );
to be this line:
$t_lang_var = preg_replace( ‘/^TLS_/’, ”, $t_var );
Srikanth Says 
The PHP version i am using is 5.3 .
After replacing
$t_lang_var = ereg_replace( ‘^TLS_’, ”, $t_var );
With
$t_lang_var = preg_replace( ‘/^TLS_/’, ”, $t_var );
Its giving me the successful Testlinkinstallation screen too, but on clicking the link to start testlink its giving me the following error
Parse error: parse error in D:\Program_Files\wamp\www\testlink\lib\functions\lang_api.php on line 173
can you please give me solution to it
You should have to give the quotes carefully while you updating on the 173 line. Once check the quotes
Cheers,
Sasidhar
what php version are you using? like i mentioned, if you are using any version below 5.2, then you dont have to change the ereg command. check it and come back if you still see the error.
I did a registry clean up and reinstalled it again and it worked 🙂 .Thanks for your help.
@Sasidhar :yes have to be very careful regarding the quotes initially i just copy pasted the line but then i realised the secong argument is two single quotes and not a double quote.
@Srikanth :I am using a 5.3 version .Registry clean-up first and the installation worked for me.
@Srikanth :Can u please help me installing bugzilla ?
@smita: try this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Win32Install
if you’re still not able to. then let me know, i’ll help you out!
HI,
Can you please give me the steps to install Test link on Windows?
Thanks in advance…
1. Hi I want to link JIRA to testlink. but i didn’t found the parameter $g_interface_bugs = ‘no’; in the custom_config.inc.php file
How can i do this.
Please help me.
2. I followed the instructions and sucessfully installed the test link.
But i am getting below message.
“There are security warnings for your consideration. See details on file: C:\wamp\www\testlink\logs\config_check.txt. To disable any reference to these checkings, set $tlCfg->config_check_warning_mode = ‘SILENT’;
In this file also i didn’t found the mentioned parameter to type SILENT
3. Once i installed the test link i created 3 users. What should be the url to be given for the rest of the users.
Please help me about all the 3 mentioned problems. As i am completely new to this type of installations.
I tried the same url http:///testlink/login.php from other machines but the page is not getting opened.
I am getting the below error if i click on a test case at the time of execution
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ADODB_sql.class.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear;.;C:\wamp\www\testlink\lib\functions\;C:\wamp\www\testlink\third_party\’) in C:\wamp\www\testlink\lib\functions\common.php on line 94
Please help me regarding this what i have to do
Try copying and pasting this line:
The line above has smartquotes in it which keeps the line from being read correctly.
$t_lang_var = preg_replace( ‘/^TLS_/’, ”, $t_var );
Nevermind, the blog automatically converted the single quotes to smartquotes. Just change both of them back and it will work.
Hello shrikant, i have done with the change port number, but after that when i put the extracted testlink folder in the www directory, and i open the link. Then it shows page not found error
i have completed with the fifth step and on the sixth step the url was not open
Hi during installation testlink, I am getting below:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function reportFatal() in D:\Program Files\wamp\www\testlink\lib\functions\database.class.php on line 193
Please suggest.
Hi All,
I am getting this error –
Warning: require_once(../config.inc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\testlink-1.9.0\install\installNewDB.php on line 37
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../config.inc.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in C:\wamp\www\testlink-1.9.0\install\installNewDB.php on line 37
Kindly suggest a solution for this if anybody faced it and resloved.
Thanks & Regards,
Rohit
Hi Srikanth.,
Can u plz help me to integrate Testlink with Bugzilla..??
System is showing message like this , let me know it.
TestLink setup will now attempt to setup the database:
Creating connection to Database Server:Failed!
Please check the database login details and try again.
Database Error Message: Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
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