Clarify documentation about multiple-project install

[anonymous]

Hi there,

I don't know much about apache internals and specially the rewrite module. So I'm not really able to understand the code snippet in this documentation. But if you could explain a little bit more what it does it will be nice.

"Projects will be accessed as ​http://hostname/projects/projectname. Copy (or symlink) trac.cgi to this directory together with a file named index.html."

In which directory /projects/projectname or /projects ?

"Then create your trac projects with trac-admin. It's important that they are all placed in the same directory. In this example we'll use /var/lib/trac."

Do I execute trac-admin once per project or once for all ? I can't create multiple trac.cgi in the same directory they are overwrited… And what is a exactly a trac project ? The subversion repository, the trac.cgi or the result of the execution of trac-admin ?

[anonymous]

Example when I create a project with trac admin a an already existing trac directory

$trac-admin /var/www/projects/CLUSTHUS/ initenv Initdb for '/var/www/projects/CLUSTHUS/' failed. Does aa environment already exist?

[anonymous]

Apart from that, thanks for the good job. Keep on coding, it's an excellent project :)

[anonymous]

On my private server there is an example of our working apache configuration: ​http://www.whylee.at/opensource/projectportal.zip

(please don't kill my internet connection on whylee.at) It also includes a web-gui written in php for adding users, projects, editing trac-permissions. I released it under GPL. If you can use it, fine. If you modify it and you think everone could use your modification, please send your modifications to me. ( whylee@… )

Geetings,

Weilhartner Stefan, 4ahead

[Jonas Borgström]

I think the current documentation is good enough. Of course it can always be improved but it shouldn't block Trac 0.8 any longer.

[bencollins@…]

The TracMultipleProjects page has an error in one of the RewriteRule statemtents.

The rule: RewriteRule ^{/projects/(:alnum:+)(/?.*) /projects/trac.cgi$2 [S=1,E=TRAC_ENV:/var/lib/trac/$1]}

doesn't work (FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, apache-2.0.50). I have tried to play with it some, but I have been unsuccessful. My requests always get passed down to the third rule which dumps me back to index.html.

A couple of things: a) your example should work. b) your example should cover directory names that include dashes. I know you say to replace :alnum: with [^{/], but I haven't been able to get that or anything else to work (and I'm skeptical of [}/] anyway). Have you considered using [:graph:]?

[sam]

I've restructured and updated the TracMultipleProject documentation page. Hope you'll enjoy it.