buildout to install and set up trac instance

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The easiest way to build and config the famous Trac Project.

Contents

Minimium Trac Instance
Dependencies
bootstrap.py v2
What We Need
Trac and Nginx

Overall, trac build and install process is quite simple.

Minimium Trac Instance

Need the following things to make a minimium Trac instance:

build Trac using eggs, the simplest way will be generate a Python interpreter and include Trac in the eggs list. Then the buildout will generate both tracd and trac-amdin in bin folder.

load necessary plugins as develop eggs directly from trac-hacks.org. Here is a list of minimium plugins:

http://trac-hacks.org/svn/xmlrpcplugin/trunk TracXMLRPC
http://trac-hacks.org/svn/customfieldadminplugin/0.11 TracCustomFieldAdmin
http://trac-hacks.org/svn/workfloweditorplugin/trunk WorkflowEditorPlugin

create trac project folder: ${buildout:directory}/var/trac
Initialize the trac folder by using trac-admin
create basic auth password file, this depends on Apache HTTPD's htpasswd:
```
$ htpasswd -c var/trac/tracuser.htpasswd USER_NAME
```

load trac at Standalone mode:

$ bin/tracd --port 8001 -s \
  --basic-auth="trac,/path/to/tracuser.htpasswd,hostname" \
  /path/to/trac/folder

Config the supervisord program to load trac standalone server.
Setup Email notification, it is very simple to setup sendmail for Trac. I experienced some interesting issue when using XMLRPC. There is a ticket talking about this: #10034.