Adding additional Trac and SVN users is relatively simple. With Trac you can do this under Admin when logged in as an administrator thanks to the WebAdmin and AccountManagerPlugins! For adding a new subversion user just use this command:

htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd john_smith

This user will then have access to all of your subversion repositories because of the way this server has been setup.

To create a new Trac project follow these steps:

sudo -s -H
trac-admin /var/trac/project initenv
trac-admin /var/trac/project permission add admin TRAC_ADMIN
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/trac/project

Now to setup the new Trac project with the same plugins as the example project. This also uses the same password file. So use unique usernames and users spanning multiple projects will have the same password!

nano /var/trac/project/conf/trac.ini

Add the following to the file:

[components]
trac.web.auth.loginmodule = disabled
webadmin.* = enabled
customfieldadmin.* = enabled
acct_mgr.* = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.RegistrationModule = disabled
 
[account-manager]
password_format = htpasswd
password_store = HtPasswdStore
password_file = /var/trac/trac.htpasswd

Then restart Apache!

apache2 -k restart

Now you should be able to point your browser to this addresses to see the new project!

• http://servername/trac/project/

To create a new Subversion repository follow these steps:

mkdir /var/svn/project
mkdir ~/project
mkdir ~/project/branches
mkdir ~/project/tags
mkdir ~/project/trunk
svnadmin create /var/svn/project
svn import ~/project file:///var/svn/project -m "Initial directory import"

After this you’ll see the three directories added.

rm -rf ~/project
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/project
apache2 -k restart

Now you should be able to point your browser to either of these addresses to see the new repository!

• http://servername/svn/project/
• http://servername/websvn/listing.php?repname=project

Particularly if you’re publishing your SVN and Trac over the internet, you should change the defaults passwords for these that were in the VM you downloaded. To change the Subversion password:

htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd admin

To change the Trac password (one file is currently used for all trac projects) :

htpasswd /var/trac/trac.htpasswd admin

For security reasons if you’re using any downloaded VM you should not leave the default root password as provided. To change the password:

sudo passwd

You’ll then be asked to enter the original password, then asked twice to enter the new password.

Obviously it’s a bad idea to have a server assigned a different IP address by your DHCP server when it comes up. So here are some basic instructions to set a static IP address on this Ubuntu server.

sudo -s -H
vi /etc/network/interfaces

Then change the following line:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

to:

iface eth0 inet static
     address 192.168.1.100
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     network 192.168.1.0
     broadcast 192.168.1.255
     gateway 192.168.1.254

This is an example only - Obviously you’ll need to work out what to use for each yourself