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This page documents the 1.4 (latest stable) release. Documentation for other releases can be found here.

Trac Installation Guide

The Trac web-based project management tool is implemented as a server side cgi-program. Trac is written in the Python programming language and store it's data in a sqlite database.

Dependencies

The following dependencies have to be installed:

Installing Trac

	$ python ./setup.py build
	$ python ./setup.py install

Initializing the database

Trac stores wiki pages, tickets and other information in a sqlite database. Sqlite databases are just ordinary files on the hard drive, no database server is required.

A new trac database can be created like this:

$ trac_admin.py /path/to/mydatabase.db initdb

NOTE: The database file have to be located in a directory where the web server user has write permission to both the file and the directory.

This creates a new database using default values. Some settings still need to be modified to get your Trac installation up and running. The following command will display the trac configuration:

$ trac_admin.py /path/to/mydatabase.db config list

Most settings should be okay, but you have to verify that these settings are correct:

  • general.repository_dir. This should be the path to the svn repository.
  • general.templates_dir. This should be the path to the trac template directory.

A config value is modified like this:

$ trac_admin.py /path/to/mydatabase.db config set <name> <value>

Configuring Apache

copy "trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi" to you web servers /cgi-bin/ directory. Of course you can configure apache to use the "trac/cgi-bin/" directory directly if you like.

Finally adjust the filenames and add this config snippet to your web server: 

Alias /trac/ "/where/you/put/trac/htdocs/"
# Trac need to know where the database is located
<Location "/cgi-bin/trac.cgi">
  SetEnv TRAC_DB "/somewhere/myproject.db"
</Location>

# You need this to let users authenticate
<Location "/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/login">
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "trac"
  AuthUserFile /somewhere/trac.htpasswd
  Require valid-user
</location>

What next?

You should now have a working Trac installation at:

​http://<yourhostname>/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

There you should be able to browse your subversion repository, create tickets, view the timeline etc. Keep in mind that anonymous users (before logging in) are only able to see/use a subset of all the features provided by Trac. Please read TracPermissions on how to grant additional privileges to authenticated users.

Enjoy!

TracGuide ← TracGuide → TracAdmin.

Note: See TracWiki for help on using the wiki.