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Recipe: Configuring Apache2 on CentOS-4.2 to serve Trac
Getting Trac to work with Apache is not difficult, but there are a number of caveats. We will start with the DSO modules for Apache. mod_python
is provided for by the default Apache2 configuration on CentOS-4.2. The configuration file is found at /etc/httpd/conf.d/python.conf
and, as the settings in the default seem to serve, you can forget about modifying your conf/httpd.conf
file for now.
Next, there is the issue of permissions on both the Trac environment and the Subversion repository. I came to the conclusion that it would be best to create separate users and groups forTtrac and Subversion called trac:trac
and svn:svn
respectively. I then set the ownerships on the Trac environment and subversion repositories to trac:trac
and svn:svn
. I next added the Apache user as a member to both the Trac and svn groups. This allows Apache to read the files in both these directory structures.
The final bit is to create a file called something like '/etc/httpd/conf.d/trac.conf' and place the httpd directives for Trac and Python in it. In my case I set up a virtual server called trac.mydomain.tld
and put the following lines in a file called '/etc/httpd/conf.d/trac.mydomain.tld.conf':
<VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot "/var/data/trac" ServerName trac.mydomain.tld <Directory "/var/data/trac"> allow from all Options +Indexes </Directory> <Location /> SetHandler mod_python PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend PythonOption TracEnv /var/data/trac SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /var/data/trac/cache PythonOption TracUriRoot / </Location> <Location "/"> AuthType Digest AuthName "tld.mydomain" AuthDigestDomain / AuthDigestFile /var/data/trac/conf/trac.htdigest #Should be set to this for the more recent mod_auth_digest: # AuthUserFile /var/data/trac/conf/trac.htdigest Require valid-user </Location> </VirtualHost>
Note that the Trac environment is located at '/var/data/trac' and that instead of htpasswd I use htdigest and lock down the entire Trac environment from anonymous access.
I had to create the egg.cache inside the Trac environment to avoid permission problems in the /var/www/htdocs directory. The 'TracUriRoot /' is required so that Trac can find its support files like stylesheets and plugins, '/' in this case equates to '/var/data/trac'.
The AuthName directive refers to the realm used when creating the htdigest file for user authentication. The AuthDigestDomain sets the uri covered by controlled access, '/' means the entire site is closed to public viewing. The user password file is created in '/var/data/trac/conf/trac.htdigest' with the htdigest program.
This setup does not yet employ cgi or fastcgi, so it will be slow.