Software development needs issue tracking cause there's too much stuff to remember. Raise issues and manage tasks. Get stuff done. Keep track of backlogs without losing yourself in the ocean of stuff that needs doing. Real life is quite similar, so lately I have been experimenting with small self-hosted instances of various issue tracking solutions. Bugzilla is one of the most mature and feature-complete foss options in this area so obviously I had to try it.
The server that I run all my personal toys on is using nginx exclusively (with passenger for my numerous ruby and python applications, more on that in another gist? perhaps!). Unfortunately bugzilla does not support nginx out of the box. It mainly targets apache's mod_perl (or mod_cgi). However since bugzilla is ultimately a cgi application, we can find ways to serve it on nginx.
Basically the solution is to wrap bugzilla's cgi scripts in a fastcgi server so that nginx can