Installing Subversion (SVN) & Trac on CentOS 5.X with Apache

Here’s how to install SVN + Trac with Apache on CentOS 5.x, before you do this you need to login as root.

run the following command to install SVN, SVN Support for Apache, PHP, Apache, MySQL (if your using MySQL with Trac) gcc, Python and Python for Apache and Sqlite (Defualt DB manager for Trac)

yum install subversion mod_dav_svn php httpd mysql gcc python mod_python sqlite

wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

python ./ez_setup.py

easy_install babel

easy_install Genshi

easy_install Pygments

easy_install docutils

easy_install textile

above will install the basic stuff to get SVN + Trac running on Apache.

now lets install Python support for MySQL if your using Trac with MySQL go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/ download MySQL-python-x.x.tar.gz

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mysql-python/mysql-python-test/1.2.3c1/MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz?use_mirror=biznetnetworks

now unzip the downloaded file

tar xzvf MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.tar.gz

Change to the unzip directory

cd MySQL-python-1.2.3c1

Now lets install MySQL support for python

python setup.py build && python setup.py install

cd ..

Now lets install Clearsilver, go to http://www.clearsilver.net/downloads/ download clearsilver-0.x.x.tar.gz and unzip it.

wget http://www.clearsilver.net/downloads/clearsilver-0.10.5.tar.gz

tar xzvf clearsilver-0.10.5.tar.gz

Change to the unzip directory and install clearsilver

cd clearsilver-0.10.5

./configure && make && make install

cd ..

Now lets download trac and install it. Go to http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload and download Trac-0.x.x.tar.gz

wget http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/Trac-0.11.5.tar.gz

tar xzvf Trac-0.11.5.tar.gz

cd Trac-0.11.5

python ./setup.py install

Now lets setup a project call KalingaTest and admin user call kalinga to access it.

Setting up the Project File Location and Directory

mkdir -p /var/svn/repos/KalingaTest

Creating a SVN project

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svn/repos/KalingaTest

Creating a Trac Project Directory

mkdir -p /var/trac/KalingaTest

Creating a Trac Project

trac-admin /var/trac/KalingaTest initenv

When creating a trac project, it will ask the following, fill accordingly.

Project Name [My Project]> KalingaTest

if your not using MySQL simply hit enter

Database connection string [sqlite:db/trac.db]>

if your using MySQL you need to provide the MySQL DB, User & Host as

Database connection string [sqlite:db/trac.db]>mysql://dbuser:[email protected]/dbname

Repository type [svn]> svn

Path to repository [/path/to/repos]> /var/svn/repos/KalingaTest

Setting File/Folder owner to apache

chown -R apache.apache /var/trac

chown -R apache.apache /var/svn

Now lets setup Apache for SVN + Trac, Edit the subversion.conf

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

Add the following at the end of the subversion.conf file.


<Location /trac>
SetHandler mod_python
PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
PythonOption TracEnv /var/trac/KalingaTest
PythonOption TracUriRoot /trac
</Location>
<Location "/trac/login">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "trac"
AuthUserFile /var/svn/project_passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>
<Location "/svn/repos/KalingaTest">
DAV svn
SVNPath /var/svn/repos/KalingaTest
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Authorization Realm"
AuthUserFile /var/svn/project_passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>

Setting up the password file

touch /var/svn/project_passwd

Making the password file apache readable

chown -R root.apache /var/svn/project_passwd

Adding a User to the password File “Kalinga” need to be the users name and the password will be prompted to be entered. You can add multiple users.

htpasswd -m /var/svn/project_passwd kalinga

Adding a user call “kalinga” ad the admin for the project name “KalingaTest”

trac-admin /var/trac/KalingaTest permission add kalinga TRAC_ADMIN

Restarting apache for changes to be applied.

service httpd restart

Go to the following URL for SVN and Trac, password and user name will the one given above.

http://serverIP/svn/repos/KalingaTest/

http://ServerIP/trac

if you have done every thing right, both should work with out an issue 🙂