Trac

Summary

Trac 0.10.3 is running at http://trac.osgeo.org/ (the primary Peer1 host).

• Trac Guide
• All data and configurations live under /var/www/trac
• virtual server configurations are under /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac
• Actual python is installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac
• Frank Warmerdam and Howard Butler have configuration experience, and can help maintain instances.

Instances

• OSGeo Committees
• MapGuide
• FDO
• GDAL
• Mapbender
• MOSS4G
• MapServer

Procedures

Upgrade

The file /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/notification.py was substantially modified to support looking up email addresses in LDAP, and will need to be re-adjusted if we upgrade to a new version of Trac.

• http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39

Creating a trac instance

  $ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> initenv
  $ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> permission add <osgeo_userid> TRAC_ADMIN
  $ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/trac/<proj_name>

• Update /var/www/trac//<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini to enable email notification.
• Add virtual host file /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac/<proj_name>.conf enabling LDAP based authentication.
• Logo can be referenced in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini and placed in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/htdocs
• modify webadmin.* setting in trac.ini to enabled for web based administration.
• Add to /var/www/trac/index.html
• Add the following to /var/www/trac/robots.txt to avoid walking through ticket attachments or svn.

Disallow: /<proj_name>/browser
Disallow: /<proj_name>/log
Disallow: /<proj_name>/report
Disallow: /<proj_name>/changeset
Disallow: /<proj_name>/attachment

Hotcopy a trac instance

  $ sudo trac-admin /var/www/html/trac/<proj_name> hotcopy /path/to/copy/trac/to