Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of TracStandalone


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    1 = Tracd =
     1= Tracd
    22
    33Tracd is a lightweight standalone Trac web server.
    44It can be used in a variety of situations, from a test or development server to a multiprocess setup behind another web server used as a load balancer.
    55
    6 == Pros ==
     6== Pros
    77
    88 * Fewer dependencies: You don't need to install apache or any other web-server.
    … …  
    1010 * Automatic reloading: For development, Tracd can be used in ''auto_reload'' mode, which will automatically restart the server whenever you make a change to the code (in Trac itself or in a plugin).
    1111
    12 == Cons ==
     12== Cons
    1313
    1414 * Fewer features: Tracd implements a very simple web-server and is not as configurable or as scalable as Apache httpd.
    … …  
    1616   or [trac:wiki:STunnelTracd stunnel -- a tutorial on how to use stunnel with tracd] or Apache with mod_proxy.
    1717
    18 == Usage examples ==
     18== Usage examples
    1919
    2020A single project on port 8080. (http://localhost:8080/)
    21 {{{
     21{{{#!sh
    2222 $ tracd -p 8080 /path/to/project
    2323}}}
    24 Strictly speaking this will make your Trac accessible to everybody from your network rather than ''localhost only''. To truly limit it use ''--hostname'' option.
    25 {{{
     24Strictly speaking this will make your Trac accessible to everybody from your network rather than ''localhost only''. To truly limit it use the `--hostname` option.
     25{{{#!sh
    2626 $ tracd --hostname=localhost -p 8080 /path/to/project
    2727}}}
    2828With more than one project. (http://localhost:8080/project1/ and http://localhost:8080/project2/)
    29 {{{
     29{{{#!sh
    3030 $ tracd -p 8080 /path/to/project1 /path/to/project2
    3131}}}
    … …  
    3535
    3636An alternative way to serve multiple projects is to specify a parent directory in which each subdirectory is a Trac project, using the `-e` option. The example above could be rewritten:
    37 {{{
     37{{{#!sh
    3838 $ tracd -p 8080 -e /path/to
    3939}}}
    4040
    41 To exit the server on Windows, be sure to use {{{CTRL-BREAK}}} -- using {{{CTRL-C}}} will leave a Python process running in the background.
    42 
    43 == Installing as a Windows Service ==
    44 
    45 === Option 1 ===
     41To exit the server on Windows, be sure to use `CTRL-BREAK` -- using `CTRL-C` will leave a Python process running in the background.
     42
     43== Installing as a Windows Service
     44
     45=== Option 1
    4646To install as a Windows service, get the [http://www.google.com/search?q=srvany.exe SRVANY] utility and run:
    47 {{{
     47{{{#!cmd
    4848 C:\path\to\instsrv.exe tracd C:\path\to\srvany.exe
    4949 reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tracd\Parameters /v Application /d "\"C:\path\to\python.exe\" \"C:\path\to\python\scripts\tracd-script.py\" <your tracd parameters>"
    … …  
    5454
    5555If you want tracd to start automatically when you boot Windows, do:
    56 {{{
     56{{{#!cmd
    5757 sc config tracd start= auto
    5858}}}
    … …  
    7474
    7575For Windows 7 User, srvany.exe may not be an option, so you can use [http://www.google.com/search?q=winserv.exe WINSERV] utility and run:
    76 {{{
     76{{{#!cmd
    7777"C:\path\to\winserv.exe" install tracd -displayname "tracd" -start auto "C:\path\to\python.exe" c:\path\to\python\scripts\tracd-script.py <your tracd parameters>"
    78 
    7978net start tracd
    8079}}}
    8180
    82 === Option 2 ===
     81=== Option 2
    8382
    8483Use [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/WindowsServiceScript WindowsServiceScript], available at [http://trac-hacks.org/ Trac Hacks]. Installs, removes, starts, stops, etc. your Trac service.
    8584
    86 === Option 3 ===
     85=== Option 3
    8786
    8887also cygwin's cygrunsrv.exe can be used:
    89 {{{
     88{{{#!sh
    9089$ cygrunsrv --install tracd --path /cygdrive/c/Python27/Scripts/tracd.exe --args '--port 8000 --env-parent-dir E:\IssueTrackers\Trac\Projects'
    9190$ net start tracd
    9291}}}
    9392
    94 == Using Authentication ==
    95 
    96 Tracd allows you to run Trac without the need for Apache, but you can take advantage of Apache's password tools (htpasswd and htdigest) to easily create a password file in the proper format for tracd to use in authentication. (It is also possible to create the password file without htpasswd or htdigest; see below for alternatives)
    97 
    98 Make sure you place the generated password files on a filesystem which supports sub-second timestamps, as Trac will monitor their modified time and changes happening on a filesystem with too coarse-grained timestamp resolution (like `ext2` or `ext3` on Linux) may go undetected.
     93== Using Authentication
     94
     95Tracd allows you to run Trac without the need for Apache, but you can take advantage of Apache's password tools (`htpasswd` and `htdigest`) to easily create a password file in the proper format for tracd to use in authentication. (It is also possible to create the password file without `htpasswd` or `htdigest`; see below for alternatives)
     96
     97{{{#!div style="border: 1pt dotted; margin: 1em"
     98**Attention:** Make sure you place the generated password files on a filesystem which supports sub-second timestamps, as Trac will monitor their modified time and changes happening on a filesystem with too coarse-grained timestamp resolution (like `ext2` or `ext3` on Linux, or HFS+ on OSX).
     99}}}
    99100
    100101Tracd provides support for both Basic and Digest authentication. Digest is considered more secure. The examples below use Digest; to use Basic authentication, replace `--auth` with `--basic-auth` in the command line.
    101102
    102103The general format for using authentication is:
    103 {{{
     104{{{#!sh
    104105 $ tracd -p port --auth="base_project_dir,password_file_path,realm" project_path
    105106}}}
    … …  
    117118Examples:
    118119
    119 {{{
     120{{{#!sh
    120121 $ tracd -p 8080 \
    121122   --auth="project1,/path/to/passwordfile,mycompany.com" /path/to/project1
    … …  
    123124
    124125Of course, the password file can be be shared so that it is used for more than one project:
    125 {{{
     126{{{#!sh
    126127 $ tracd -p 8080 \
    127128   --auth="project1,/path/to/passwordfile,mycompany.com" \
    … …  
    131132
    132133Another way to share the password file is to specify "*" for the project name:
    133 {{{
     134{{{#!sh
    134135 $ tracd -p 8080 \
    135136   --auth="*,/path/to/users.htdigest,mycompany.com" \
    … …  
    137138}}}
    138139
    139 === Basic Authorization: Using a htpasswd password file ===
     140=== Basic Authorization: Using a htpasswd password file
    140141This section describes how to use `tracd` with Apache .htpasswd files.
    141142
    142   Note: It is necessary (at least with Python 2.6) to install the fcrypt package in order to
    143   decode some htpasswd formats.  Trac source code attempt an `import crypt` first, but there
    144   is no such package for Python 2.6. Only `SHA-1` passwords (since Trac 1.0) work without this module.
     143  Note: On Windows It is necessary to install the [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/passlib passlib]
     144  package in order to decode some htpasswd formats. Only `SHA-1` passwords (since Trac 1.0)
     145  work without this module.
    145146
    146147To create a .htpasswd file use Apache's `htpasswd` command (see [#GeneratingPasswordsWithoutApache below] for a method to create these files without using Apache):
    147 {{{
     148{{{#!sh
    148149 $ sudo htpasswd -c /path/to/env/.htpasswd username
    149150}}}
    150151then for additional users:
    151 {{{
     152{{{#!sh
    152153 $ sudo htpasswd /path/to/env/.htpasswd username2
    153154}}}
    154155
    155156Then to start `tracd` run something like this:
    156 {{{
    157  $ tracd -p 8080 --basic-auth="projectdirname,/fullpath/environmentname/.htpasswd,realmname" /fullpath/environmentname
     157{{{#!sh
     158 $ tracd -p 8080 --basic-auth="project,/fullpath/environmentname/.htpasswd,realmname" /path/to/project
    158159}}}
    159160
    160161For example:
    161 {{{
    162  $ tracd -p 8080 --basic-auth="testenv,/srv/tracenv/testenv/.htpasswd,My Test Env" /srv/tracenv/testenv
     162{{{#!sh
     163 $ tracd -p 8080 --basic-auth="project,/srv/tracenv/testenv/.htpasswd,My Test Env" /path/to/project
    163164}}}
    164165''Note:'' You might need to pass "-m" as a parameter to htpasswd on some platforms (OpenBSD).
    165166
    166 === Digest authentication: Using a htdigest password file ===
     167=== Digest authentication: Using a htdigest password file
    167168
    168169If you have Apache available, you can use the htdigest command to generate the password file. Type 'htdigest' to get some usage instructions, or read [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/htdigest.html this page] from the Apache manual to get precise instructions.  You'll be prompted for a password to enter for each user that you create.  For the name of the password file, you can use whatever you like, but if you use something like `users.htdigest` it will remind you what the file contains. As a suggestion, put it in your <projectname>/conf folder along with the [TracIni trac.ini] file.
    … …  
    170171Note that you can start tracd without the `--auth` argument, but if you click on the ''Login'' link you will get an error.
    171172
    172 === Generating Passwords Without Apache ===
    173 
    174 Basic Authorization can be accomplished via this [http://aspirine.org/htpasswd_en.html online HTTP Password generator] which also supports `SHA-1`.  Copy the generated password-hash line to the .htpasswd file on your system. Note that Windows Python lacks the "crypt" module that is the default hash type for htpasswd ; Windows Python can grok MD5 password hashes just fine and you should use MD5.
    175 
    176 You can use this simple Python script to generate a '''digest''' password file:
    177 
    178 {{{
    179 #!python
    180 from optparse import OptionParser
    181 # The md5 module is deprecated in Python 2.5
    182 try:
    183     from hashlib import md5
    184 except ImportError:
    185     from md5 import md5
    186 realm = 'trac'
    187 
    188 # build the options
    189 usage = "usage: %prog [options]"
    190 parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
    191 parser.add_option("-u", "--username",action="store", dest="username", type = "string",
    192                   help="the username for whom to generate a password")
    193 parser.add_option("-p", "--password",action="store", dest="password", type = "string",
    194                   help="the password to use")
    195 parser.add_option("-r", "--realm",action="store", dest="realm", type = "string",
    196                   help="the realm in which to create the digest")
    197 (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    198 
    199 # check options
    200 if (options.username is None) or (options.password is None):
    201    parser.error("You must supply both the username and password")
    202 if (options.realm is not None):
    203    realm = options.realm
    204    
    205 # Generate the string to enter into the htdigest file
    206 kd = lambda x: md5(':'.join(x)).hexdigest()
    207 print ':'.join((options.username, realm, kd([options.username, realm, options.password])))
    208 }}}
    209 
    210 Note: If you use the above script you must set the realm in the `--auth` argument to '''`trac`'''. Example usage (assuming you saved the script as trac-digest.py):
    211 
    212 {{{
    213  $ python trac-digest.py -u username -p password >> c:\digest.txt
    214  $ tracd --port 8000 --auth=proj_name,c:\digest.txt,trac c:\path\to\proj_name
     173=== Generating Passwords Without Apache
     174
     175Basic Authorization can be accomplished via this [http://aspirine.org/htpasswd_en.html online HTTP Password generator] which also supports `SHA-1`.  Copy the generated password-hash line to the .htpasswd file on your system. Note that Windows Python lacks the "crypt" module that is the default hash type for htpasswd. Windows Python can grok MD5 password hashes just fine and you should use MD5.
     176
     177Trac also provides `htpasswd` and `htdigest` scripts in `contrib`:
     178{{{#!sh
     179$ ./contrib/htpasswd.py -cb htpasswd user1 user1
     180$ ./contrib/htpasswd.py -b htpasswd user2 user2
     181}}}
     182
     183{{{#!sh
     184$ ./contrib/htdigest.py -cb htdigest trac user1 user1
     185$ ./contrib/htdigest.py -b htdigest trac user2 user2
    215186}}}
    216187
    217188==== Using `md5sum`
    218189It is possible to use `md5sum` utility to generate digest-password file:
    219 {{{
     190{{{#!sh
    220191user=
    221192realm=
    … …  
    225196}}}
    226197
    227 == Reference ==
     198== Reference
    228199
    229200Here's the online help, as a reminder (`tracd --help`):
    … …  
    261232Use the -d option so that tracd doesn't hang if you close the terminal window where tracd was started.
    262233
    263 == Tips ==
    264 
    265 === Serving static content ===
     234== Tips
     235
     236=== Serving static content
    266237
    267238If `tracd` is the only web server used for the project,
    … …  
    274245Example: given a `$TRAC_ENV/htdocs/software-0.1.tar.gz` file,
    275246the corresponding relative URL would be `/<project_name>/chrome/site/software-0.1.tar.gz`,
    276 which in turn can be written as `htdocs:software-0.1.tar.gz` (TracLinks syntax) or `[/<project_name>/chrome/site/software-0.1.tar.gz]` (relative link syntax).
    277 
    278  ''Support for `htdocs:` TracLinks syntax was added in version 0.10''
     247which in turn can be written as `htdocs:software-0.1.tar.gz` (TracLinks syntax) or `[/<project_name>/chrome/site/software-0.1.tar.gz]` (relative link syntax).
    279248
    280249=== Using tracd behind a proxy
    … …  
    289258
    290259=== Authentication for tracd behind a proxy
    291 It is convenient to provide central external authentication to your tracd instances, instead of using {{{--basic-auth}}}. There is some discussion about this in #9206.
     260It is convenient to provide central external authentication to your tracd instances, instead of using `--basic-auth`. There is some discussion about this in [trac:#9206].
    292261
    293262Below is example configuration based on Apache 2.2, mod_proxy, mod_authnz_ldap.
    … …  
    295264First we bring tracd into Apache's location namespace.
    296265
    297 {{{
     266{{{#!apache
    298267<Location /project/proxified>
    299268        Require ldap-group cn=somegroup, ou=Groups,dc=domain.com
    … …  
    306275
    307276Then we need a single file plugin to recognize HTTP_REMOTE_USER header as valid authentication source. HTTP headers like '''HTTP_FOO_BAR''' will get converted to '''Foo-Bar''' during processing. Name it something like '''remote-user-auth.py''' and drop it into '''proxified/plugins''' directory:
    308 {{{
    309 #!python
     277{{{#!python
    310278from trac.core import *
    311279from trac.config import BoolOption
    … …  
    328296
    329297Add this new parameter to your TracIni:
    330 {{{
    331 ...
     298{{{#!ini
    332299[trac]
    333300...
    … …  
    337304
    338305Run tracd:
    339 {{{
    340 tracd -p 8101 -r -s proxified --base-path=/project/proxified
     306{{{#!sh
     307tracd -p 8101 -s proxified --base-path=/project/proxified
    341308}}}
    342309
    … …  
    344311
    345312Global config (e.g. `/srv/trac/conf/trac.ini`):
    346 {{{
     313{{{#!ini
    347314[components]
    348315remote-user-auth.* = enabled
    … …  
    354321
    355322Environment config (e.g. `/srv/trac/envs/myenv`):
    356 {{{
     323{{{#!ini
    357324[inherit]
    358325file = /srv/trac/conf/trac.ini
    359326}}}
    360327
    361 === Serving a different base path than / ===
     328=== Serving a different base path than /
    362329Tracd supports serving projects with different base urls than /<project>. The parameter name to change this is
    363 {{{
     330{{{#!sh
    364331 $ tracd --base-path=/some/path
    365332}}}