Install SVN

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install subversion
sudo apt-get install libapache2-svn

Check If SVN Installed or not

If everything finished successfully with any warning or error you can check the installation. Type “svnadmin –version” on terminal. If installation was success you will get the output something like shown below.

mittu@tutorboy:~$ svnadmin --version
svnadmin, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
 compiled Aug 31 2009, 18:42:02

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository back-end (FS) modules are available:

* fs_base : Module for working with a Berkeley DB repository.
* fs_fs : Module for working with a plain file (FSFS) repository.

Install Trac

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python-subversion

sudo easy_install Trac

Check If Trac Installed or not

Type the ” trac-admin ?” on the terminal,If installation was success you will get the output something like shown below.

mittu@tutorboy:~$ trac-admin ?
Welcome to trac-admin 0.11.7rc1
Interactive Trac administration console.
Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Edgewall Software

Type:  '?' or 'help' for help on commands.

Trac [/home/mittu/?]>

Configuration & Example Project creation.

See Part 3 – How to Configure SVN Trac on Ubuntu.

1. Create Server Folder(s)

sudo mkdir /server
sudo mkdir /server/svn
sudo mkdir /server/trac

2. Some permissions changes and an apache restart are now needed:

sudo chown -R www-data /server/svn/
sudo chown -R www-data /server/trac/
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. Open the dav_svn.conf from /etc/apache2/mods-available/

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

For SVN edit/uncomment the line as show below from the dav_svn.conf file on the mods-available

<Location /svn>
    # Uncomment this to enable the repository,
    DAV svn

    # Set this to the path to your repository
    SVNParentPath /server/svn
</Location>

For Trac Configuration you need to put the following lines after the svn conf settings on dav_svn.conf file.

Alias /trac /server/trac
<Location /trac>
SetHandler mod_python
PythonInterpreter main_interpreter
PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /server/trac
PythonOption TracUriRoot /trac
</Location>

4. Create a SVN Repository for the test project “projectOne”

sudo svnadmin create /server/svn/projectOne

5. Create a Trac environment for the project “projectOne”

sudo trac-admin /server/trac/projectOne initenv

The terminal will ask the Project Name. Give a name which is to identify the repository projectOne

 Please enter the name of your project.
 This name will be used in page titles and descriptions.

Project Name [My Project]> ProjectOne

After that the Terminal will ask for the Database option and Repository type  please press “Enter” key for each question.

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

The Last and important question is the svn repository path to the project. Enter the svn path to that project, here in example /server/svn/projectOne

Path to repository [/path/to/repos]> /server/svn/projectOne

Finally you will get
The latest documentation can also always be found on the project
website:

http://trac.edgewall.org/

Congratulations!

Check the localhost

Check the localhost, by open your web browser and type “localhost”.

Check SVN from the URL.

And you can check the SVN path with your project name, like: http://localhost/svn/projectOne. Showing the current svn revision ie 0.

Check Trac from the URL.

The final step is to test the Trac configuration with SVN.

Finally you made the Trac SVN system for your Project Management purpose. For more details on Trac & SVN please wait a while.

Why SVN?

Subversion is an open source version control system. The project’s original goal of being “a compelling replacement for CVS” (an older version control system with a similar model) was surpassed long ago. Version control, also referred to as revision control, source control, or source code management (SCM), is the management of multiple versions of a single item or collection thereof. Commonly used in documentation, engineering, and software development processes, particularly where a team of people are involved, it enables the tracking and retrieval of changes made to an item.

Why Trac?

The Trac ticket system provides simple but effective issue tracking within our project. Combined with the Roadmap, Tickets provide the core project management elements of Trac, in which tickets are used to track project tasks, feature requests, bug reports, and software support issues. And also the source code from the svn repository can be browse from Trac.

File System Structure

Ok? This is a simple folder structure to manage multiple project in one server machine. In my example, i have a root folder for the server named server. In this folder we are going to store all the SVN and Trac files of each projects. Each project have own Trac system connected and the Trac is connected to the SVN Repository path of that project. Please refer the above image for more clarification.

Example:

Suppose I have a project called ProjectOne.
SVN path: http://servername/svn/ProjectOne
Trac path: http://servername/trac/ProjectOne

Install SVN & Trac

See Part 2 – How to Install SVN Trac on Ubuntu.