TestLink

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

a. open mysql console

b. create database testlink;

c. use testlink;

d. grant CREATE,INSERT,DELETE,UPDATE,SELECT on testlink.* to admin@localhost;

e. set password for admin@localhost = password('admin');

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 );