Loud Baking

The new app will be running on a VDS from Myriad Network for the moment. To be more precise, I find that their $56.95 per month package gives enough room to test the waters without any big initial investment. Myriad runs CentOS and to be honest, we ran into a couple of problems installing what was supposed to be very easy.

Here is a quick documentation of how we finally got it to run.

IMPORTANT: The following steps have been tested and worked for us. In no way do I guarantee they will work for every CentOS configuration and strongly suggest you do things carefully and read more documentation on the Trac and Subversion sites.

Installing Trac

• Make sure you have at peast Python 2.4 (otherwise, get ready to face some serious issues)
• Download the latest Trac version - here
• Download ClearSilver - here
• Download Swig - here
• Download SQLite - here
• Download PySQLite - here
• Install Trac
  • Extract files
  • Change to extracted files’ directory
  • Run the following command: python setup.py install
• Install ClearSilver, Swig, SQLite, PySQLite. For each:
  • Extract files
  • Change to extracted files’ directory
  • Run: ./configure
  • Run: male && make install
• Move svnlib to python libraries directory: cp -r /path/to/svnlib /path/to/python2.x/site-packages/
• Test svn bindings from Python CLI
  • Run: python
  • Run: import svn core
  • If everything is ok, you shouldn’t get any errors

Installing Subversion

• Download the latest version of Subversion - here
• Download the latest deps file - here
• Extract subversion
• Extract deps
• Copy/move extracted deps folder content into Subversion root directory
• Run: ./configure –without-neon
• Run: make && make swig-py && make install

Creating a repository

• Run: svnadmin create /path/to/repo
• Change to /path/to/repo/conf and edit svnserve.conf, disable authz-db
• To start SVN as a standalone server, run: svnserve -d -r /path/to/repo
• You can optionally add –listen-port PORT in the command arguments

Setup Trac for repository

• Run: trac-admin path/to/trac-env-root initenv
  • Select a project name
  • Enter path to your subversion repository
• Run: tracd -d -p [PORT] /path/to/trac-env/root /path/to/another-trac-en-root

Subversion cheatsheets:

• http://ariejan.net/svncheatsheet/
• http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/Papers/svn-refcard.pdf

Notes: Python doesn’t send out any stderr to the system, which in turn makes it hard to debug. Instead, run tracd in interactive mode instead of the daemon mode by simply taking out the ‘-d’ from the tracd -d -p [PORT] command.