Installing Trac and Subversion on Ubuntu Ibex

These are basically my notes from installing Trac and Subversion on an Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex server.

Install Software Packages

sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-python libapache2-svn python-setuptools subversion python-subversion
sudo easy_install Trac

Create the Trac Environments Directory

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

Setup Apache2

Using the default Ubuntu Apache virtual server setup, create a virtual server instance for Trac. This single instance will be used for all Trac projects on the server.

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/trac.websitename.com

Your file will look a lot like the following. Use your website name instead of websitename.com and use a valid e-mail addressinstead of webmaster@websitename.com.

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@websitename.com
 ServerName trac.websitename.com
 DocumentRoot /motuit/var/www/trac.websitename.com/public
 LogLevel warn
 ErrorLog /motuit/var/www/trac.websitename.com/logs/error.log
 CustomLog /motuit/var/www/trac.websitename.com/logs/combined.log combined
 # DirectoryIndex index.html
 
 
  SetHandler mod_python
  PythonInterpreter main_interpreter
  PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
  PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /var/lib/trac
  PythonOption TracUriRoot /projects
  PythonOption PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /tmp
 
 
 # use the following for one authorization for all projects 
 # (names containing "-" are not detected):
 
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "trac"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpassword.websitename.com
  Require valid-user
 
</VirtualHost>

Now, use the Debian/Ubuntu utility a2ensite to create a link in apache2/sites-enabled to the file you just created in apache2/sites-available. Then, reload apache2 to enable the new subdomain.

sudo a2ensite trac
sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

You will also need to create a DNS A record to point to the server for this subdomain, but this is outside the scope of this blog entry.

Create Trac and Subversion Environments

Here we will make directories and create the Subversion repositories.

sudo mkdir /var/lib/svn
sudo mkdir /usr/share/trac
sudo svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/project1
sudo svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/project2

Set some permissions:

sudo chown -R www-data /var/lib/svn
sudo chown -R www-data /usr/share/trac
sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Set up Trac

sudo mkdir /var/lib/trac

Initialize Trac for one of your projects.

sudo trac-admin /var/lib/trac/project1 initenv

The utility will ask for:

Project Name [My Project]>: project1
Database connection string [sqlite:db/trac.db]>:
Repository type [svn]>:
Path to repository [/path/to/repos]>: /var/lib/svn/project1

Repeat the above for the following, substituting the project code for each:

sudo trac-admin /var/lib/trac/project2 initenv

sudo chown -R www-data /var/lib/trac

Get Subversion Running

Modify /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

  DAV svn
 
  SVNParentPath /var/lib/svn
  SVNListParentPath On
 
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion Repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpassword.websitename.com
 
  # To enable authorization via mod_authz_svn
  #AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz
 
  
    Require valid-user
   
 

Install More aptitude packages for Trac plugins

Install some packages that will be needed.

sudo aptitude install build-essential graphviz
sudo aptitude install enscript
sudo aptitude install htmldoc

Using easy_install to Install more Trac Plugins

Because these are installed, you will be able to turn these on easily as Trac administrator.

sudo easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/genshi/trunk/
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/trunk
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/customfieldadminplugin/0.11
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/eclipsetracplugin/tracrpcext/0.10
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/iniadminplugin/0.11
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/masterticketsplugin/0.11
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/pagetopdfplugin/0.10/
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/progressmetermacro/0.11
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/ticketdeleteplugin/0.11
sudo easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/tracwysiwygplugin/0.11
sudo easy_install http://wikinotification.ufsoft.org/svn/trunk