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This how to is meant for newbies to explain basically how to install trac, first a few notes on trac

Trac is not just a bunch of files you place in a folder under your /var/www/ tree and poof it works

• IMO Trac is a very good way to callaborate on a project
  • It has svn viewer (just a viewer)
  • It has a wiki
  • Ticketing system
  • Road Map
• Trac will not make svn accessible, you will need another way to be able to access (checkout, commit, etc...) svn

Now let's do it, there are two ways to do it, both are easy (depends on your taste)

1. install from distro packages
2. install from sources

Install from distro package 

debian/ubuntu: $apt-get install trac

Fedora/Centos/RH: $yum install trac

Install from sources

you have several dependencies to install

• python (of course) 
• subversion
• setuptools (some python libs)
• database server (sqlite, mysql, postgres), i used mysql and then you need python-mysqldb libs
• apache, mod_python
• ClearSilver

now after getting all those, download trac, untar it and then

$python ./setup.py install 

and poof! it is installed, but hey wait don't party yet...

Configure Trac

create a database and user with access to it

$mysql

mysql>  create database tracdb;

mysql>  grant all on tracdb.* to "user"@"localhost" identified by "password";mysql> flush privileges;mysql> exit 

 now you need to know where you will have your trac project?

 >$trac-admin /path/to/myproject initenv

that will ask you some questions about your svn repo and database, you will enter the db connection string as follows

mysql://user:password@localhost/tracdb

you can ignore the svn repo location for now

and now to configure apache

<VirtualHost * >
  DocumentRoot /var/www/myproject
  ServerName trac.mycompany.com
  <Location />
     SetHandler mod_python
     PythonInterpreter main_interpreter
     PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
     PythonOption TracEnv /var/trac/myproject
     PythonOption TracUriRoot /
  </Location>
  <Location /login>
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "MyCompany Trac Server"
     AuthUserFile /var/trac/myproject/.htpasswd
     Require valid-user
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>