Sucess: svn + apache2 + SSL + ubuntu 7.10/8.04 + users + part 2: trac

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UPDATE: 6/22/08

I tried using these instructions on Ubuntu 8.04 and everything still works.  I’m not sure why someone commented saying that the instructions don’t work.. I’m curious.

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Wow, This was super easy to get going:

The link over on the trac website is pretty spot on, but I had to modify it a little bit.. Credits:

http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracOnUbuntu

This is a continuation of my previous post. This post definitely depends on the last one, so if you haven’t checked it out, go for it.

Install trac

sudo apt-get install trac

Make a directory for trac to live in

sudo mkdir /var/lib/trac
 sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/lib/trac

Setup Apache2:

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
sudo touch trac
sudo gedit trac

Enter, or copy the following stuff in (be careful with the ServerName): (modified on march 2nd to make sure the ssl is enabled)

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName monkfish
        DocumentRoot /usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/
        <Directory /usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
        Alias /trac "/usr/share/trac/htdocs"

        <Location /trac.cgi>
            SetEnv TRAC_ENV "/var/lib/trac"
        </Location>

        <Location "/">
            AuthType Basic
            AuthName "Trac"
            AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
            Require valid-user
        </Location>

        DirectoryIndex trac.cgi
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.trac.log
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.trac.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
SSLProtocol all
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM

</VirtualHost>

Modify /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to have the following line(s):

# To use CGI scripts outside /cgi-bin/:
#
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Disable the default virtual host, enable trac and restart apache2

sudo a2dissite default
sudo a2ensite trac
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Since we have already setup a svn repository in /var/lib/svn, we can just go ahead and continue to use trac-admin

sudo trac-admin /var/lib/trac initenv

This will basically ask you a bunch of questions... here's how I filled mine out:

jwoo@monkfish:/var/lib/trac$ sudo trac-admin /var/lib/trac initenv
Creating a new Trac environment at /var/lib/trac

Trac will first ask a few questions about your environment
in order to initalize and prepare the project database.

 Please enter the name of your project.
 This name will be used in page titles and descriptions.

Project Name [My Project]> linuxhappy

 Please specify the connection string for the database to use.
 By default, a local SQLite database is created in the environment
 directory. It is also possible to use an already existing
 PostgreSQL database (check the Trac documentation for the exact
 connection string syntax).

Database connection string [sqlite:db/trac.db]> 

 Please specify the type of version control system,
 By default, it will be svn.

 If you don't want to use Trac with version control integration,
 choose the default here and don't specify a repository directory.
 in the next question.

Repository type [svn]> 

 Please specify the absolute path to the version control
 repository, or leave it blank to use Trac without a repository.
 You can also set the repository location later.

Path to repository [/path/to/repos]> /var/lib/svn 

 Please enter location of Trac page templates.
 Default is the location of the site-wide templates installed with Trac.

Templates directory [/usr/share/trac/templates]> 

Creating and Initializing Project
 Installing default wiki pages
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracChangeset => TracChangeset
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracStandalone => TracStandalone
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracSearch => TracSearch
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/CamelCase => CamelCase
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracPlugins => TracPlugins
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/RecentChanges => RecentChanges
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiRestructuredText => WikiRestructuredText
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracTickets => TracTickets
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/InterWiki => InterWiki
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiPageNames => WikiPageNames
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracUnicode => TracUnicode
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiNewPage => WikiNewPage
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiProcessors => WikiProcessors
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracLinks => TracLinks
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiMacros => WikiMacros
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracUpgrade => TracUpgrade
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracQuery => TracQuery
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiStart => WikiStart
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracRoadmap => TracRoadmap
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracLogging => TracLogging
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracAdmin => TracAdmin
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracBackup => TracBackup
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracFastCgi => TracFastCgi
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiHtml => WikiHtml
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracRss => TracRss
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracAccessibility => TracAccessibility
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/InterMapTxt => InterMapTxt
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiRestructuredTextLinks => WikiRestructuredTextLinks
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracInterfaceCustomization => TracInterfaceCustomization
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracTimeline => TracTimeline
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracPermissions => TracPermissions
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracEnvironment => TracEnvironment
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracReports => TracReports
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracRevisionLog => TracRevisionLog
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracTicketsCustomFields => TracTicketsCustomFields
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiFormatting => WikiFormatting
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracGuide => TracGuide
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracIni => TracIni
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracModPython => TracModPython
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracSyntaxColoring => TracSyntaxColoring
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracCgi => TracCgi
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracBrowser => TracBrowser
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/SandBox => SandBox
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracSupport => TracSupport
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/InterTrac => InterTrac
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TitleIndex => TitleIndex
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracWiki => TracWiki
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracInstall => TracInstall
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracImport => TracImport
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/WikiDeletePage => WikiDeletePage
 /usr/share/trac/wiki-default/TracNotification => TracNotification
 Indexing repository

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Project environment for 'linuxhappy' created.

You may now configure the environment by editing the file:

  /var/lib/trac/conf/trac.ini

If you'd like to take this new project environment for a test drive,
try running the Trac standalone web server `tracd`:

  tracd --port 8000 /var/lib/trac

Then point your browser to http://localhost:8000/trac.
There you can also browse the documentation for your installed
version of Trac, including information on further setup (such as
deploying Trac to a real web server).

The latest documentation can also always be found on the project
website:

  http://trac.edgewall.org/

Congratulations!

Since we ran that as sudo, we’ll need to change some permissions:

cd /var/lib
sudo chown www-data:www-data trac/ -Rf
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

At this point you should be home free and be able to visit https://yoursite/ and login with the same users as were setup with the svn (setup in the previous post).
Once logging in, you should see the trac homepage.

This worked fine and dandy for me!