Revision as of 06:13, 11 July 2007

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

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

Trac Spam

We have had problems with trac spam when ticket create and ticket modify permissions were set to anonymous (the default). To get around this most (all?) instances have been changed to require authenticated users to do these actions.

But some projects strongly desire to support anonymous ticket creation and modification and at some point this might be viable using image captcha technology to keep out the spammers. A Trac plugin for this is apparently under development, and described at:

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

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