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Tracd

Tracd is a lightweight stand-alone Trac server. In most cases it's easier to setup and runs faster than trac.cgi.

Note: tracd is still experimental.

Pros

• Fewer dependencies: You don't need to install apache or any other web-server.
• Fast: Should be as fast as the TracModPython version (much faster than the cgi).

Cons

• Less features: Tracd implements a very simple web-server and is not as configurable as apache.
• Only htdigest authentication: Tracd can currently only authenticate users against apache-htdigest files.
• No native https support: ​sslwrap can be used instead.

Usage examples

A single project on port 8080. (​http://localhost:8080/)

 $ tracd -p 8080 /path/to/project

With more than one project. (​http://localhost:8080/project1/ and ​http://localhost:8080/project2/)

 $ tracd -p 8080 /path/to/project1 /path/to/project2

With htdigest authentication. The file /tmp/users.htdigest contain user accounts for project1 with the realm "mycompany.com".

 $ tracd -p 8080 --auth project1,/tmp/users.htdigest,mycompany.com /path/to/project1

htdigest authentication can also be used for more than one project. The digest file can be shared:

 $ tracd -p 8080 \
   --auth project1,/tmp/users.htdigest,mycompany.com \
   --auth project2,/tmp/users.htdigest,mycompany.com \
   /path/to/project1 /path/to/project2

Tracd on Windows

tracd also works on Windows. But on that platform, the sensitivity on multithread issues is high. tracd is not (yet!) very robust in multithread mode, see for example #1401 and #1721 for some of the issues…

I recently found out that all the occasional problems (i.e. crashes) I had can be avoided by telling tracd to operate in single-threaded mode:

trac/web/standalone.py

@@ -124 +124 @@
         return auth['username']
 
 
-class TracHTTPServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
+class TracHTTPServer(HTTPServer):
 
     projects = None

Note: in [1875], I accidentally committed that change in the trunk… I knew this would happen :)

Generating passwords on Windows

If you don't have Apache availabel, you can use this Python script to generate your passwords (code borrowed heavily from #845):

from optparse import OptionParser
import md5

# build the options
usage = "usage: %prog [options]"
parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
parser.add_option("-u", "--username",action="store", dest="username", type = "string",
                  help="the username for whom to generate a password")
parser.add_option("-p", "--password",action="store", dest="password", type = "string",
                  help="the password to use")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

# check options
if (options.username is None) or (options.password is None):
   parser.error("You must supply both the username and password")
   
# Generate the string to enter into the htdigest file
realm = 'trac'
kd = lambda x: md5.md5(':'.join(x)).hexdigest()
print ':'.join((options.username, realm, kd([options.username, realm, options.password])))

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See also: README.tracd, TracGuide, TracInstall, TracModPython