Trac

Trac is an open sourvce general purpose issue tracker. While Trac is well documented on its own Trac instance, a quick reference of the various configuration elements and commands are provided:

Trac Configuration files

• /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac.conf
  • Apache Configuration file
  • Handles mod_python, authentication options and splash page
• /etc/httpd/htpasswd/trac.htpasswd
  • Users File
• /etc/trac/trac.ini
  • Main configuration file. Options set here are applied to all instances
  • Plugins need to be controlled on an instance by instance basis
• /var/www/html/trac/{INSTANCE_NAME/conf/trac.ini
  • Instance configuration file. Overrides option sset in global

Setting Up a new instance

1. connect to mysql server
   1. CREATE DATABASE instancename DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
   2. grant all on instancename.* to 'tracuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
2. On rome: run trac-admin instancename initenv
   1. connection string should be mysql://tracuser:password@localhost/instancename
3. Profit

Handy Commands

• Granting a user admin permissions
  • trac-admin /path/to/projenv permission add bob TRAC_ADMIN