= Tracd =
Tracd is a lightweight standalone Trac web server. In most cases it’s easier to setup and runs faster than the [wiki:TracCgi CGI script].
== Pros ==
* Fewer dependencies: You don’t need to install apache or any other web-server.
* Fast: Should be almost as fast as the [wiki:TracModPython mod_python] version (and much faster than the [wiki:TracCgi CGI]).
* 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).
== Cons ==
* Fewer features: Tracd implements a very simple web-server and is not as configurable or as scalable as Apache HTTPD.
* No native HTTPS support: [http://www.rickk.com/sslwrap/ sslwrap] can be used instead,
or [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/STunnelTracd stunnel — a tutorial on how to use stunnel with tracd] or Apache with mod_proxy.
== Usage examples ==
A single project on port 8080. (http://localhost:8080/)
{{{
$ tracd -p 8080 /path/to/project
}}}
Stricly speaking this will make your Trac accessible to everybody from your network rather than ”localhost only”. To truly limit it use ”–hostname” option.
{{{
$ tracd –hostname=localhost -p 8080 /path/to/project
}}}
With more than one project. (http://localhost:8080/project1/ and http://localhost:8080/project2/)
{{{
$ tracd -p 8080 /path/to/project1 /path/to/project2
}}}
You can’t have the last portion of the path identical between the projects since Trac uses that name to keep the URLs of the
different projects unique. So if you use `/project1/path/to` and `/project2/path/to`, you will only see the second project.
An 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:
{{{
$ tracd -p 8080 -e /path/to
}}}
To exit the server on Windows, be sure to use {{{CTRL-BREAK}}} — using {{{CTRL-C}}} will leave a Python process running in the background.
== Using Authentication ==
Using tracd with Apache .htpasswd files:
To create a .htpasswd file using htpasswd:
{{{
sudo htpasswd -c /path/to/env/.htpasswd username
}}}
then for additional users:
{{{
sudo htpasswd /var/www/html/.htpasswd-users username2
}}}
then for starting the tracd:
{{{
tracd -p 8080 –basic-auth=environmentname,/fullpath/environmentname/.htpasswd,/fullpath/environmentname /fullpath/environmentname
}}}
Tracd provides support for both Basic and Digest authentication. The default is to use Digest; to use Basic authentication, replace `–auth` with `–basic-auth` in the examples below. (You must still specify a dialogic “realm”, which can be an empty string by trailing the BASICAUTH with a comma.)
”Support for Basic authentication was added in version 0.9.”
The general format for using authentication is:
{{{
$ tracd -p port –auth=base_project_dir,password_file_path,realm project_path
}}}
where:
* ”’base_project_dir”’ is the base directory of the project; note: this doesn’t refer to the project name, and it is case-sensitive even for windows environments
* ”’password_file_path”’ path of the password file
* ”’realm”’ realm
* ”’project_path”’ path of the project
Example:
{{{
$ tracd -p 8080
–auth=project1,/path/to/users.htdigest,mycompany.com /path/to/project1
}}}
Of course, the digest file can be be shared so that it is used for more than one project:
{{{
$ tracd -p 8080
–auth=project1,/path/to/users.htdigest,mycompany.com
–auth=project2,/path/to/users.htdigest,mycompany.com
/path/to/project1 /path/to/project2
}}}
Another way to share the digest file is to specify “*”
for the project name:
{{{
$ tracd -p 8080
–auth=*,/path/to/users.htdigest,mycompany.com
/path/to/project1 /path/to/project2
}}}
== How to set up an htdigest password file ==
If 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