Trac setup

Posted by Graham Stratton Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:39:06 GMT

Just in case I haven’t already expressed my opinion on this: trac is wonderful. It’s a simple integration of subversion with an issue tracker and a wiki. It’s probably not that difficult to set up by default, but for some reason I chose to use Postgres instead of SQLite, so there’s a little bit to it. I covered installing everything elsewhere, so here I’m just going to describe setting up the database and configuring it all.

First we need to create a subversion repository. This needs to be writable by the user which Apache is running as, probably www-data or similar.

sudo svnadmin create /var/svn/hippocms
sudo chown -R www-data /var/svn/hippocms/

Now we need to configure Apache:

  <Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /var/svn
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion" 
    AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth
    Require valid-user
  </Location>

The SVNParentPath variable makes all the subdirectories of this directory which should be repositories available, but denies access to the directory itself.

We’re only protecting the repository with BasicAuth here; you’ll need to use https to make this secure. We need to create the htpasswd file:

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/svn-auth graham

So now, you should be able to access the repository through the web at http://your.server/svn/hippocms/

And you should be able to check out its emptyness with 
svn co http://cambridgewebdevelopment.co.uk/svn/hippocms/

Next we set up the Apache to host trac:

  Alias /trac "/usr/share/trac/htdocs" 

  ScriptAlias /hippocms /usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
  <Location "/hippocms">
    SetEnv TRAC_ENV "/var/trac/hippocms" 
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "hippocms" 
    AuthUserFile /var/trac/hippocms/.htpasswd
    Require valid-user
  </Location>
And we need to add a user for Apache to authenticate: 
sudo htpasswd -c /var/trac/hippocms/.htpasswd graham

Finally we need to create a database and create a trac user:

sudo su - postgres -c createdb hippocms
sudo su - postgres -c psql hippocms
# create user trac with password 'secret';

Now we’re ready to initialise our trac environment:

sudo trac-admin /var/trac/hippocms initenv

And everything should Just Work.

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  1. Sean Tierney said 194 days later:

    Graham, thanks for the tutorial. For a truly “it just works” setup experience check out the JumpBox for Trac/SVN-> http://www.jumpbox.com/jumpbox-for-tracsubversion-software-project-management

    1min install and fully portable.

    sean

  2. Anime News said 400 days later:

    I’ve been using it with SQLite… But with this handy tutorial maybe it’s time to move to postgres :)

    Thanks mate.

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  8. Contact Center said 1204 days later:

    Trac is a project management and bug-tracking tool, and it is an open source tool. Trac is a compact subversion with an issue tracker and wiki. Python programming language is used in this tool. The major features of trac are project management, ticket system, fine-grained permissions, timeline of recent activity, wiki, customized reporting, VCS web interface, RSS feeds, multiple project support, environment extensibility through python plug-in and icalender export. The project management includes road map, mile stones etc. the ticket system consist of bus tracking, tasks etc. to set up trac first we need to configure apache web server. Next step is to set up apache to host trac.

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