Installing An Enhanced Wiki And Issue Tracking System

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By Daniele Salatti
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Article Date: 2009-03-19

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects that works very well with Subversion. If you need to set it up, this short guide will show you how to do that with little effort.

Start by installing Trac:

1.sudoapt-get installtrac python-setuptools libapache2-mod-python enscript

Then create a Trac database:

1.sudomkdir/var/www/trac
2.sudotrac-admin /var/www/trac/repo initenv

Answer to its questions (in most cases you can take the defaults - if you followed this guide your Subversion repository should be in /var/svn/repo).

When you are done, set the right permissions on the trac folder. You can do this issuing a command like this one (change your user and group name accordingly):

1.cd/var/www
2.sudochown-R www-data.svn trac

Open your Apache virtual host file adding this:

<Location/trac/[[:alnum]]+/login">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords
Require valid-user
</Location>
 
<Location/trac>
SetHandler mod_python
PythonInterpreter main_interpreter
PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /var/www/trac
PythonOption TracUriRoot /trac
</Location>

Then restart Apache.

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About the Author:
Daniele Salatti is a 23 years old Italian guy. Informatic Engineering student at the University of Pisa, he is a passionate Linux user. Check out his blog at Salatti.net.