Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of TracCgi


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01/20/22 11:30:43 (3 years ago)
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     1= Installing Trac as CGI
     2[[TracGuideToc]]
     3[[PageOutline]]
     4
     5{{{#!div class=important
     6 ''Please note that using Trac via CGI is the slowest deployment method available. It is slower than [wiki:TracModWSGI mod_wsgi], [TracModPython mod_python], [TracFastCgi FastCGI] and even [trac:TracOnWindowsIisAjp IIS/AJP] on Windows.''
     7}}}
     8
     9CGI script is the entrypoint that web-server calls when a web-request to an application is made. The `trac.cgi` script can be created using the `trac-admin <env> deploy <dir>` command which automatically substitutes the required paths, see TracInstall#cgi-bin. Make sure the script is executable by your web server.
     10
     11== Apache web-server configuration
     12
     13In [https://httpd.apache.org/ Apache] there are two ways to run Trac as CGI:
     14
     15 1. Use a `ScriptAlias` directive that maps a URL to the `trac.cgi` script (recommended)
     16 1. Copy the `trac.cgi` file into the directory for CGI executables used by your web server (commonly named `cgi-bin`). You can also create a symbolic link, but in that case make sure that the `FollowSymLinks` option is enabled for the `cgi-bin` directory.
     17
     18To make Trac available at `http://yourhost.example.org/trac` add `ScriptAlias` directive to Apache configuration file, changing `trac.cgi` path to match your installation:
     19{{{#!apache
     20ScriptAlias /trac /path/to/www/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
     21}}}
     22
     23 ''Note that this directive requires that the `mod_alias` module is enabled.''
     24
     25If you're using Trac with a single project you need to set its location using the `TRAC_ENV` environment variable:
     26{{{#!apache
     27<Location "/trac">
     28  SetEnv TRAC_ENV "/path/to/projectenv"
     29</Location>
     30}}}
     31
     32Or to use multiple projects you can specify their common parent directory using the `TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR` variable:
     33{{{#!apache
     34<Location "/trac">
     35  SetEnv TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR "/path/to/project/parent/dir"
     36</Location>
     37}}}
     38
     39  ''Note that the `SetEnv` directive requires that the `mod_env` module is enabled.''
     40
     41An alternative to `SetEnv` is editing `TRAC_ENV` or `TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR` in `trac.cgi`:
     42
     43{{{#!python
     44    os.environ['TRAC_ENV'] = "/path/to/projectenv"
     45}}}
     46
     47{{{#!python
     48    os.environ['TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR'] = "/path/to/parent/dir"
     49}}}
     50
     51If you are using the [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html Apache suEXEC] feature please see [trac:ApacheSuexec].
     52
     53On some systems, you ''may'' need to edit the shebang line in the `trac.cgi` file to point to your real Python installation path. On a Windows system you may need to configure Windows to know how to execute a `.cgi` file (Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types -> CGI).
     54
     55=== Python Egg Cache
     56
     57The [TracInstall#egg-cache egg-cache] can be configured using an `os.environ` statement in `trac.cgi`, as shown above.
     58To do the same from the Apache configuration, use the `SetEnv` directive:
     59{{{#!apache
     60SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /path/to/dir
     61}}}
     62
     63Put this directive next to where you set the path to the [TracEnvironment Trac environment], i.e. in the same `<Location>` block.
     64
     65{{{#!apache
     66 <Location /trac>
     67   SetEnv TRAC_ENV /path/to/projenv
     68   SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /path/to/dir
     69 </Location>
     70}}}
     71
     72
     73
     74=== Using WSGI
     75
     76You can run a [http://henry.precheur.org/python/how_to_serve_cgi WSGI handler] [https://thejimmyg.github.io/pythonweb/projects/webmodules/doc/0.5.3/html_multipage/lib/example-webserver-web-wsgi-simple-cgi.html under CGI].  You can [wiki:TracModWSGI#Thetrac.wsgiscript write your own application function], or use the deployed trac.wsgi's application.
     77
     78== Mapping Static Resources
     79
     80See TracInstall#MappingStaticResources.
     81
     82== Adding Authentication
     83
     84See TracInstall#ConfiguringAuthentication.
     85
     86----
     87See also:  TracInstall, [wiki:TracModWSGI], TracFastCgi, TracModPython