trac.cgi missing in 0.11 setup??

[edunne]

I've got Genshi, the latest version of setup tools etc.

trac-admin works fine and I can run TRAC standalone using tracd.

However, I'm trying to get it to run through Apache using simple cgi as the initial way to do deployment. With 0.10.x you just specified in the apache conf file that apache should use trac-cgi to handle requests.

However, I've searched my entire hard-drive and there is no trac-cgi that can be found.

It used to be dumpe in the python24/share/trac/cgi-bin directory but with python25 there is no share folder.

any idea where trac-cgi has disapeared to? Is it even necessary anymore (that docs aren't that specific for windows deployment of 0.11)?

[edunne]

anyway, I copied the old 0.10.x trac.cgi file and modified it so that it used python25 etc.

Seems to work, just not sure why it was missing from the 0.11 setup.

[edunne]

oh and sorry my initial description I kept typing trac-cgi instead of trac.cgi

[osimons]

The scripts are available as part of the source (trunk/cgi-bin), but you are right: This no longer gets installed anywhere, and will only be available if you download or checkout the full source. A typical easy_install will not make the files available.

Following the migration to Setuptools, Trac no longer leaves copies of any resources outside the installed .egg - and only read-only runtime files are deployed there. cgi-bin, sample-plugins and contrib directories all behave this way. Unlike the old 'share' strategy, the .egg is a moving target and not suitable for keeping auxillary files used by other processes.

I agree that this can be a bit confusing, but not quite sure what to do about it. Improving documentation may help, as currently this switch is only documented in TracDev/ReleaseNotes/0.11 - mentioning new settings for shared config, plugins and templates.

In some form or another this should be clarified in soon-ish.

[edunne]

yeah, well it was certainly a bit confusing.

It might be helpful to put a note on the

​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall the 0.11.x install guide where it talks about trac.cgi and Fast cgi to explain that trac.cgi is no longer included. And suggested steps to actually get TRAC running?

[tim]

yes, i'm trying to setup trac 0.11 on IIS here, and it says map the vdir to cgi-bin ?! what do i do??

[Dave Gynn <dgynn@…>]

patch to provide data_files for install_data

[Dave Gynn <dgynn@…>]

I've attached a patch that identifies the data_files to be installed with python setup.py install_data. This creates the folder structure under /usr/share/trac that was created with the 0.10.x installer. The data files still don't appear to be installed by easy_install or setup.py install.

I included the layout.html template file in the patch. But now that I think about it theme.html might be better.

[Dave Gynn <dgynn@…>]

updated patch with correct htdocs subdirectories

[osimons]

This was fixed by [6894] before 0.11 release, and should be closed against that milestone (I don't have necessary permissions to select a closed milestone).

The short answer is to now run the command:

trac-admin /path/to/project deploy /my/output-dir

The default frontend files can then be found in output-dir/cgi-bin.

[anonymous]

Documentation needs to be updated to reflect this; without it, upgrading from .10 to .11 is a nightmare. Also, how do you deploy with multiple trac environments under a single directory?

$ trac-admin initenv /usr/local/trac/project1
$ trac-admin initenv /usr/local/trac/project2
$ trac-admin /usr/local/trac/project1 deploy /usr/share/trac
$ trac-admin /usr/local/trac/project2 deploy /usr/share/trac
Command Failed: Destination already exists. Remote and retry.

Lastly, using trac-admin deploy does not solve the problem because the cgi scripts it deploys are not executable.

[Wed Jul  2 17:50:35 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.130] FastCGI: invalid (dynamic) server "/usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi": access for server (uid 99, gid 99) not allowed: execute not allowed

[AndrejsC@…]

Has anybody solved this with issue with multiple environments?

[ebray]

Random ticket butchering.

[anonymous]

For multi-environment on apache & *nix:

You could try doing a 'deploy' once, for one environment, and then editing the resulting cgi-bin/trac.fcgi to remove the bits specific to that environment.

 # trac-admin /path/to/tracs/foo deploy /tmp/foo
 # vi /tmp/foo/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi

Note that this step can fail horribly due to old versions of the XmlRpcPlugin or CtxtNavAdd plugins. See ticket:4280.

Then copy the files generated by the 'deploy' command to the place that you already had specified in your apache config, e.g.

 # cp -r /tmp/foo/ /usr/share/
 # chown -R webserver:webgroup /usr/share/trac/{cgi-bin,htdocs}

It appears that in 0.11, for multi-environment the intention is that you put these generated files into /path/to/tracs/foo/cgi-bin and /path/to/tracs/foo/htdocs.

Perhaps this is going to produce more problems in upgrading to later releases? At the least, one will have to be religious about doing the 'deploy' on all tracs at upgrade time, so there is no "version skew".

[anonymous]

doh.

>  # cp -r /tmp/foo/ /usr/share/
>  # chown -R webserver:webgroup /usr/share/trac/{cgi-bin,htdocs}

# cp -r /tmp/foo/* /usr/share/trac

[Christian Boos]

Looks like it's (minimally) documented in TracCgi and TracModWSGI.

Is there anything more to add in the docs? (perhaps comment:17?)

[Christian Boos]

A word about this in TracInstall seems useful though. Currently there's a warning pointing back to this ticket… not optimal.

[carsten.scheele@…]

This problem totally killed me when I upgraded from Debian Etch to Lenny. Finding this bug report wasn't really easy: the hint in TracInstall is minimalistic.

[Christian Boos]

Seems everything is now documented for 0.12 in TracInstall#GeneratingtheTraccgi-bindirectory.

If there was anything else to do, please reopen.