PATCH: Allow tracd to serve projects from the URL root

[pacopablo]

With external webservers, it is possible to configure Trac such that it is served from the root URL. However, tracd will always display a project listing, even if only one project is beign served.

This request has come up on the mailing list ​previously. The ​response from Matt Good was that another option should be provided to tracd.

Attached is a patch that provides the --serve-root option. If specified, then it will not show a project list and simply serve the project listed.

I'll admit that my approach might not be the best. However, I couldn't think of a better way to get the necessary info to the required objects. So any feedback on the patch is very welcome.

[pacopablo]

patch to enable serving project from tracd off of the url root

[pacopablo]

guess this is really an enhancement, not a defect

[anonymous]

When using the —serve-root option, I'm getting the following traceback…

  File "D:\Installs\trac-trunk\trac\web\main.py", line 335, in dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "D:\Installs\trac-trunk\trac\web\main.py", line 220, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "D:\Installs\trac-trunk\trac\web\auth.py", line 95, in process_request
    self._do_login(req)
  File "D:\Installs\trac-trunk\trac\web\auth.py", line 116, in _do_login
    assert req.remote_user, 'Authentication information not available.'
AssertionError: Authentication information not available.

[pacopablo]

Slight side effect of patch. Because there is no "project" part of the path, one needs to use * as the project name. So:

tracd --auth *,/path/to/htdigest,realm --serve-root /path/to/trac/env

Should do it.

[Matthew Good]

change option to —single-env

[Matthew Good]

I've attached a new version of the patch which renames the option to --single-env (or -s) and avoids using the WSGI environment for passing the "serveroot" option around. It also fixes the problem with the authentication pacopablo mentioned.

I'll bring this up on the MailingList, since we were trying to establish a feature freeze for 0.10.

[Matthew Good]

Ok, patch committed in r3733.