Trac – Configure New Environment

Trac allows the hosting of multiple environments/projects using a single install.

However, setting it up is not so straight-forward.

Configure your new Trac environment

The trac-admin tool is used to configure Trac. The following will create a new environment skeleton directory amongst the other Trac environments:

Add an admin user

Modify Apache

The Trac server is configured to use a vhost for each environment. Copy and existing the trac-x and svn-x to get started:

Replace all instances of the copied environment with values for your new environment. Restart apache.

Configure SVN

Create a new repo for your project:

Modify the repo’s post-commit hook and add the previous trac-admin command to the last line of the file:

Change the ownership of post-commit to apache and make it executable. Otherwise, it won’t work:

• Apache
• Subversion
• Trac
• vhost