Philip@Swarchy

Prerequisites

• Apache with SSL
• SVN

Installation

1. Install Package
   • $ sudo apt-get install trac
2. Create the Trac Environments Directory
   • $ sudo mkdir /home/trac
   • $ sudo chown www-data:www-data /home/trac
3. Setup Apache2

   <VirtualHost servername:443>
       ServerName servername
       ServerAdmin admin@servername
   
       SSLEngine On
       SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
   
       DocumentRoot /var/www/trac
       <Directory />
           Options None
           AllowOverride None
           allow from all
       </Directory>
   
       # Trac settings
       <Directory "/var/www/trac">
           Options +FollowSymLinks
           AllowOverride None
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>
   
       <Directory "/var/www/trac/projects">
           AllowOverride None
           Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
           AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>
   
       # for multiple projects
       RewriteEngine on
       RewriteRule ^/projects/+$            /projects/index.html [L]
       RewriteCond /home/trac/$1            -d
       RewriteRule ^/projects/([[:alnum:]_]+)(/?.*)    /projects/trac.c
   gi$2 [S=1,E=TRAC_ENV:/home/trac/$1]
       RewriteRule ^/projects/(.*)          /projects/index.html
   
       # You need this to allow users to authenticate
       # trac.htpasswd can be created with
       # cmd 'htpasswd -c trac.htpasswd' (UNIX)
       # do 'man htpasswd' to see all the options
       <LocationMatch "/projects/[[:alnum:]_]+/login">
           AuthType Basic
           AuthName "trac"
           require group dev
       </locationMatch>
   
       ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/trac_error.log
   
       # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
       # alert, emerg.
       LogLevel warn
   
       CustomLog /var/log/apache2/trac_access.log combined
       ServerSignature On
   </VirtualHost>

4. Setup Trac web home directory (/var/www/trac)
   • index.html
   • projects/
     • trac.cgi -> /usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
   • trac -> /usr/share/trac/htdocs
5. Restart Apache
   • $ sudo chown -R www-data /usr/share/trac
   • $ sudo apache2 -k restart
6. Creating Environments
   • $ sudo mkdir /home/trac
   • $ sudo trac-admin /home/trac/YourProjectNameHere initenv
   • $ sudo chown -R www-data /home/trac/YourProjectNameHere
   • The “trac-admin” command shown above prompted me to enter:
     • the project name (YourProjectNameHere)
     • the path to svn repository (/home/svn/YourProjectNameHere)
     • the path to the Trac templates directory (/usr/share/trac/templates)
     • …
7. Access your project
   • https://servername/project/YourProjectNameHere

Reference Link:

TracOnUbuntu – The Trac Project – Trac