Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of ApacheSuexec

Timestamp:

Nov 11, 2004, 10:25:24 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

daniel

Comment:

Edited and added text about multiple projects

ApacheSuexec

@@ -1 @@
-== Apache suEXEC ==
+= Trac and Apache suEXEC =
 
-Setting the TRAC_ENV environment variable as described in TracInstall will not work when using [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html Apache suEXEC] feature because the environment variables are filtered and only a subset reaches the cgi program.
+Trac in CGI-mode doesn't play very well with [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html Apache suEXEC].
 
-So, we have two choices:
- * Recompile suexec to let it pass the TRAC_ENV variable, not advised, so I'll not explain how to do it.
- * Change our trac.cgi script to set the TRAC_ENV variable by itself, to do this we edit trac.cgi file and add
+Setting the TRAC_ENV environment variable as described in TracInstall will not work when using suEXEC feature because the environment variables are filtered and only a limited subset reaches the CGI program.
+
+There are two obvious workarounds to make things work:
+ 1. Recompile suexec to let it pass the TRAC_ENV variable; which requires root permissions and is not really advisable anyway.
+ 2. Change our trac.cgi script to set the TRAC_ENV variable by itself, to do this we edit trac.cgi file and add
 
 {{{
@@ -11 +13 @@
 }}}
 
-before the `try:' line.
+at the very beginning of the script.
+
+'''Note: This is a kludge, but works.'''
+
+----
+
+== Multiple Projects under suEXEC ==
+When hosting multiple projects under suEXEC, you can either copy the CGI script and change the TRAC_ENV setting for each script, or make a wrapper script around it.
+
+Here's a contributed script to work around the stripping of environment variables done by suEXEC.
+
+{{{
+
+ #!/bin/bash
+ user="marcenuc" 
+
+ prj="${PATH_INFO#/}" 
+ prj="${prj%%/*}" 
+ export TRAC_ENV="/home/${user}/.trac/prj/${prj}" 
+ export SCRIPT_NAME="/~${user}/prj/${prj}" 
+ export PATH_INFO="${PATH_INFO#/${prj}}" 
+ export PYTHONPATH="/home/${user}/sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages" 
+ exec ./trac.cgi 
+}}} 
+
+----
+See also: TracInstall, TracMultipleProjects