Installing and Running Trac on Debian Sarge (testing)

Notes from a Debian Sarge install

A Debian package for Sarge does not exist, hence you need to build it yourself. This is actually quite straightforward. Hopefully the following should be of some use.

First you need the SQLite, Subversion and the related python modules (also grab python-dev if you don't have it installed already):

apt-get install sqlite python2.3-subversion python2.3-sqlite subversion

Clearsilver isn't available as a package, so get clearsilver from ​http://www.clearsilver.net/ (tested ​0.9.10) (The symbolic link is needed to fix a bug in clearsilver 0.9.10)

tar xvfz clearsilver-0.9.10.tar.gz
cd clearsilver-0.9.10
./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python
ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/python (or ln -s /usr/bin/python-2.3 /usr/local/bin/python)
make
make install

This should then allow you to build and initialise trac.

When you come to running it though you'll also have to add the env_module using the following line in your /etc/apache/modules.conf

LoadModule env_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_env.so

I then set up a trac.conf in my /etc/apache/conf.d folder like so

<VirtualHost local.trac>
    alias /trac/ "/usr/share/trac/htdocs/"
    ServerAdmin youremail@yourdomain.tld
    DocumentRoot /var/trac/myTrac
    ServerName local.trac
    ErrorLog /var/trac/myTrac/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/trac/myTrac/logs/access_log common
    AddHandler cgi-script cgi
    <Location "/cgi-bin/trac.cgi">
      SetEnv TRAC_ENV "/var/trac/myTrac/tracdb/myenv"
      Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
      AllowOverride None
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Don't forget to create those log folders though (apachectl configtest doesn't warn you about that one)

(Adapted and updated from an earlier guide by tim@…)