Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of TracCgi
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- Jul 30, 2012 5:30:51 PM (12 years ago)
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v1 v2 1 1 = Installing Trac as CGI = 2 2 3 To install Trac as a CGI script, you need to make the `trac.cgi` executable as a CGI by your web server. 3 {{{ 4 #!div class=important 5 ''Please note that using Trac via CGI is the slowest deployment method available. It is slower than [TracModPython mod_python], [TracFastCgi FastCGI] and even [trac:TracOnWindowsIisAjp IIS/AJP] on Windows.'' 6 }}} 4 7 5 ''Please note that using Trac via CGI is significantly slower than any other deployment method, such as [TracModPython mod_python] or [TracFastCgi FastCGI].'' 8 CGI script is the entrypoint that web-server calls when a web-request to an application is made. To generate the `trac.cgi` script run: 9 {{{ 10 trac-admin /path/to/env deploy /path/to/www/trac 11 }}} 12 `trac.cgi` will be in the `cgi-bin` folder inside the given path. ''Make sure it is executable by your web server''. This command also copies `static resource` files to a `htdocs` directory of a given destination. 6 13 7 If you're using [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache HTTPD], there are a couple ways to do that: 14 == Apache web-server configuration == 8 15 9 1. Use a `ScriptAlias` to map a URL to the `trac.cgi` script 16 In [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache] there are two ways to run Trac as CGI: 17 18 1. Use a `ScriptAlias` directive that maps an URL to the `trac.cgi` script (recommended) 10 19 2. Copy the `trac.cgi` file into the directory for CGI executables used by your web server (commonly named `cgi-bin`). You can also create a symbolic link, but in that case make sure that the `FollowSymLinks` option is enabled for the `cgi-bin` directory. 11 20 12 The first option is recommended as it also allows you to map the CGI to a friendly URL. 13 14 Now, edit the Apache configuration file and add this snippet, file names and locations changed to match your installation: 21 To make Trac available at `http://yourhost.example.org/trac` add `ScriptAlias` directive to Apache configuration file, changing `trac.cgi` path to match your installation: 15 22 {{{ 16 ScriptAlias /trac / usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi23 ScriptAlias /trac /path/to/www/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi 17 24 }}} 18 25 19 ''Note that this directive requires the `mod_alias` module to be installed and enabled.''26 ''Note that this directive requires enabled `mod_alias` module.'' 20 27 21 28 If you're using Trac with a single project you need to set its location using the `TRAC_ENV` environment variable: … … 33 40 }}} 34 41 35 ''Note that the `SetEnv` directive requires the `mod_env` module to be installed and enable.''42 ''Note that the `SetEnv` directive requires enabled `mod_env` module. It is also possible to set TRAC_ENV in trac.cgi. Just add the following code between "try:" and "from trac.web ...":'' 36 43 37 This will make Trac available at `http://yourhost.example.org/trac`. 44 {{{ 45 import os 46 os.environ['TRAC_ENV'] = "/path/to/projectenv" 47 }}} 48 49 '' Or for TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR: '' 50 51 {{{ 52 import os 53 os.environ['TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR'] = "/path/to/project/parent/dir" 54 }}} 38 55 39 56 If you are using the [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html Apache suEXEC] feature please see [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/ApacheSuexec]. … … 41 58 On some systems, you ''may'' need to edit the shebang line in the `trac.cgi` file to point to your real Python installation path. On a Windows system you may need to configure Windows to know how to execute a .cgi file (Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types -> CGI). 42 59 60 === Using WSGI === 61 62 You can run a [http://henry.precheur.org/python/how_to_serve_cgi WSGI handler] [http://pythonweb.org/projects/webmodules/doc/0.5.3/html_multipage/lib/example-webserver-web-wsgi-simple-cgi.html under CGI]. You can [wiki:TracModWSGI#Thetrac.wsgiscript write your own application function], or use the deployed trac.wsgi's application. 63 43 64 == Mapping Static Resources == 44 65 45 Out of the box, Trac will serve static resources such as style sheets or images itself. For a CGI setup, though, this is highly undesirable, because it results in the CGI script being invoked for documents that could be much more efficiently served by the web server directly. 46 47 Web servers such as [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache HTTPD] allow you to create “Aliases” to resources, thereby giving them a virtual URL that doesn't necessarily bear any resemblance to the layout of the servers file system. We already used this capability above when defining a `ScriptAlias` for the CGI script, and we'll use it now to map requests to the static resources to the directory on the file system that contains them, thereby bypassing the processing of such requests by the CGI script. 48 49 Edit the Apache configuration file again and add the following snippet '''before''' the `ScriptAlias` for the CGI script , file names and locations changed to match your installation: 50 {{{ 51 Alias /trac/chrome/common /usr/share/trac/htdocs 52 <Directory "/usr/share/trac/htdocs"> 53 Order allow,deny 54 Allow from all 55 </Directory> 56 }}} 57 58 Note that whatever URL path you mapped the `trac.cgi` script to, the path `/chrome/common` is the path you have to append to that location to intercept requests to the static resources. 59 60 For example, if Trac is mapped to `/cgi-bin/trac.cgi` on your server, the URL of the Alias should be `/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/chrome/common`. 61 62 Alternatively, you can set the `htdocs_location` configuration option in [wiki:TracIni trac.ini]: 63 {{{ 64 [trac] 65 htdocs_location = /trac-htdocs 66 }}} 67 68 Trac will then use this URL when embedding static resources into HTML pages. Of course, you still need to make the Trac `htdocs` directory available through the web server at the specified URL, for example by copying (or linking) the directory into the document root of the web server: 69 {{{ 70 $ ln -s /usr/share/trac/htdocs /var/www/your_site.com/htdocs/trac-htdocs 71 }}} 66 See TracInstall#MappingStaticResources. 72 67 73 68 == Adding Authentication == 74 69 75 The simplest way to enable authentication with Apache is to create a password file. Use the `htpasswd` program to create the password file: 76 {{{ 77 $ htpasswd -c /somewhere/trac.htpasswd admin 78 New password: <type password> 79 Re-type new password: <type password again> 80 Adding password for user admin 81 }}} 82 83 After the first user, you dont need the "-c" option anymore: 84 {{{ 85 $ htpasswd /somewhere/trac.htpasswd john 86 New password: <type password> 87 Re-type new password: <type password again> 88 Adding password for user john 89 }}} 90 91 ''See the man page for `htpasswd` for full documentation.'' 92 93 After you've created the users, you can set their permissions using TracPermissions. 94 95 Now, you'll need to enable authentication against the password file in the Apache configuration: 96 {{{ 97 <Location "/trac/login"> 98 AuthType Basic 99 AuthName "Trac" 100 AuthUserFile /somewhere/trac.htpasswd 101 Require valid-user 102 </Location> 103 }}} 104 105 If you're hosting multiple projects you can use the same password file for all of them: 106 {{{ 107 <LocationMatch "/trac/[^/]+/login"> 108 AuthType Basic 109 AuthName "Trac" 110 AuthUserFile /somewhere/trac.htpasswd 111 Require valid-user 112 </LocationMatch> 113 }}} 114 115 For better security, it is recommended that you either enable SSL or at least use the “Digest” authentication scheme instead of “Basic”. Please read the [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ Apache HTTPD documentation] to find out more. 70 See TracInstall#ConfiguringAuthentication. 116 71 117 72 ---- 118 See also: TracGuide, TracInstall, TracFastCgi, TracModPython73 See also: TracGuide, TracInstall, [wiki:TracModWSGI], TracFastCgi, TracModPython