trac 11rc1 + MySQL + mod_python on Slackware 12.1

This guide isn't exactly a HOWTO but in fact the steps I took to install trac. Hope it helps.

Subversion with SWIG

One of the requirements is that subversion be compiled with SWIG support, therefore if you are using the supplied package then you will need to recompile. To do so follow the following steps:

• Remove installed subversion package;
• Compile and install swig from slackbuilds
• Get subversion build scripts and source from source cd
• Edit build script and include —with-swig in configuration options
• Recompile subversion & install new subversion package
• In subversion source directory (probably in /tmp) do:

make swig-py
make install-swig-py

trac installation

Once subversion has been recompiled trac installation can proceed. First install ez_setup:

python ez_setup.py

Next install Genshi:

easy_install Genshi

And finally trac

easy_install Trac==0.11rc1

MySQL

• Install MySQL package from Slackware (make sure everything is up and running before proceding)
• Compile and install pysetuptools from slackbuilds
• Compile and install mysql-python from slackbuilds
• Set-up the trac database

  mysql -u root -p
  create database trac DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; 
  USE trac;
  CREATE USER tracuser IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
  GRANT ALL ON trac.* TO tracuser;
  

For above example connection string will be: mysql://tracuser:password@localhost/trac.

Set-up trac

First create project

trac-admin /path/to/myproject initenv

Apache Set-up

• Compile and install mod_python from slackbuilds
• Configure apache to test Python installation add to httpd.conf(location only for tests)

  LoadModule python_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_python.so
  <Location /mpinfo>
     SetHandler mod_python
     PythonInterpreter main_interpreter
     PythonHandler mod_python.testhandler
  </Location>
  

• Make sure PYTHONPATH is set and that apache can see it. (VERY IMPORTANT)

  export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/svn-python
  

• Restart apache
• Point browser to ​http://localhost/mpinfo (you should see info and if so location can now be removed)
• Next add to httpd.conf Virtualhost config (or any other setup you would like)

Notes: This VirtualHost config if for multiple projects

<VirtualHost *:999>
   DocumentRoot /path/to/trac
   <Directory "/path/to/trac">
     Allow from all
   </Directory>
   <Location />
     SetHandler mod_python
     PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
     PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /path/to/trac
     PythonOption TracUriRoot /
   </Location>
# used for authentication (refer to manual for more info)
#   <LocationMatch "/[^/]+/login">
#     AuthName "Trac"
#     AuthType Basic
#     AuthUserFile /path/to/trac/.htpasswd
#     Require valid-user
#     Options FollowSymLinks
#     Order allow,deny
#     Allow from all
#   </LocationMatch>
</VirtualHost>

• Restart apache again
• Point to virtualhost and all should be working (unless I forgot to document some step I took)

Hope this helps, icebrian