Creating a Trac Project Environment

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Overview

How to set up a new Trac project environment on Windows using a SQLite database.

Prerequisites

  • Python
    • The Windows installation of Python doesn't update the "path" environment variable. It's necessary to do that manually to include the path to the python executable.
    • Same is true for Trac. By default the trac libraries are installed in [PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR]\Lib\site-packages\. The trac-admin executable is located in c:\python27\scripts\ (where c:\phython27\ is the installation directory for Python).
  • Python setuptools
  • Genshi
  • And of course, Trac. Which for now requires Python 2.7 (even though Python 3.x exists).
    It looks like it's possible to run multiple python environments?

Creating a project environment

trac-admin /path/to/tracdir initenv

Then trac will prompt for settings:

  • Project name: littledamien
  • Database connection string: sqlite:db/trac-littledamien.db

The configuration file for the new project environment is located at [TRAC_PROJECT_DIR]\conf\trac.ini.

Start the server with 

tracd --port 8000 /path/to/tracdir

Then you can connect to the trac project with http://localhost:8000/trac/.

Database

  • Create a new SQLite database.
sqlite3 /develop/trac-projectname.db
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