Creating a Trac Project Environment

Overview

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

Prerequisites

See Trac Installation on Windows Server 2008

Resources

• TracInstall: Create a Project Environment
• The Trac User and Administration Guide

Creating a project environment

Using PowerShell as Administrator:

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.

Trac web server

Start the server with

tracd --port 8000 /path/to/tracdir

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

See also Installing Trac as a Windows Service

Enabling the Admin tab in the Trac web interface

trac-admin /path/to/my/project permission add <username> TRAC_ADMIN

Git support

Git support is built into Trac 1.0. It has to be enabled in the trac.ini file:

[components]
tracopt.versioncontrol.git.* = enabled

[git]
git_bin = c:\git\bin\git.exe

Then Admin tab > Administration menu > Version Control > Repositories > Add Repository

• Trac Repository Administration
• Trac Git

Database

• Create a new SQLite database.

sqlite3 /develop/trac-projectname.db