Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of TracModWSGI


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Oct 23, 2010, 8:43:57 PM (14 years ago)
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     1= Trac and mod_wsgi =
     2
     3'''Important note:''' ''Please use either version 1.6, 2.4 or later of `mod_wsgi`. Versions prior to 2.4 in the 2.X branch have problems with some Apache configurations that use WSGI file wrapper extension. This extension is used in Trac to serve up attachments and static media files such as style sheets. If you are affected by this problem attachments will appear to be empty and formatting of HTML pages will appear not to work due to style sheet files not loading properly. See mod_wsgi tickets [http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/issues/detail?id=100 #100] and [http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/issues/detail?id=132 #132].''
     4
     5[http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ mod_wsgi] is an Apache module for running WSGI-compatible Python applications directly on top of Apache. The mod_wsgi adapter is written completely in C and provides significantly better performance than using existing WSGI adapters for mod_python or CGI.
     6
     7Trac can be run on top of mod_wsgi with the help of the following application script, which is just a Python file, though usually saved with a .wsgi extension). This file can be created using '''trac-admin <env> deploy <dir>''' command which automatically substitutes required paths.
     8
     9{{{
     10#!python
     11import os
     12
     13os.environ['TRAC_ENV'] = '/usr/local/trac/mysite'
     14os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/usr/local/trac/mysite/eggs'
     15
     16import trac.web.main
     17application = trac.web.main.dispatch_request
     18}}}
     19
     20The `TRAC_ENV` variable should naturally be the directory for your Trac environment (if you have several Trac environments in a directory, you can also use `TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR` instead), while the `PYTHON_EGG_CACHE` should be a directory where Python can temporarily extract Python eggs.
     21
     22'''Important note:''' If you're using multiple `.wsgi` files (for example one per Trac environment) you must ''not'' use `os.environ['TRAC_ENV']` to set the path to the Trac environment. Using this method may lead to Trac delivering the content of another Trac environment. (The variable may be filled with the path of a previously viewed Trac environment.) To solve this problem, use the following `.wsgi` file instead:
     23
     24{{{
     25#!python
     26import os
     27
     28os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/usr/local/trac/mysite/eggs'
     29
     30import trac.web.main
     31def application(environ, start_response):
     32  environ['trac.env_path'] = '/usr/local/trac/mysite'
     33  return trac.web.main.dispatch_request(environ, start_response)
     34}}}
     35
     36For clarity, you should give this file a `.wsgi` extension. You should probably put the file in it's own directory, since you will open up its directory to Apache. You can create a .wsgi files which handles all this for you by running the TracAdmin command `deploy`.
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     38If you have installed trac and eggs in a path different from the standard one you should add that path by adding the following code on top of the wsgi script:
     39
     40{{{
     41#!python
     42import site
     43site.addsitedir('/usr/local/trac/lib/python2.4/site-packages')
     44}}}
     45
     46Change it according to the path you installed the trac libs at.
     47
     48After you've done preparing your wsgi-script, add the following to your httpd.conf.
     49
     50{{{
     51WSGIScriptAlias /trac /usr/local/trac/mysite/apache/mysite.wsgi
     52
     53<Directory /usr/local/trac/mysite/apache>
     54    WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
     55    Order deny,allow
     56    Allow from all
     57</Directory>
     58}}}
     59
     60Here, the script is in a subdirectory of the Trac environment. In order to let Apache run the script, access to the directory in which the script resides is opened up to all of Apache. Additionally, the {{{WSGIApplicationGroup}}} directive ensures that Trac is always run in the first Python interpreter created by mod_wsgi; this is necessary because the Subversion Python bindings, which are used by Trac, don't always work in other subinterpreters and may cause requests to hang or cause Apache to crash as a result. After adding this configuration, restart Apache, and then it should work.
     61
     62To test the setup of Apache, mod_wsgi and Python itself (ie. without involving Trac and dependencies), this simple wsgi application can be used to make sure that requests gets served (use as only content in your .wsgi script):
     63
     64{{{
     65def application(environ, start_response):
     66        start_response('200 OK',[('Content-type','text/html')])
     67        return ['<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>']
     68}}}
     69
     70See also the mod_wsgi [http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithTrac installation instructions] for Trac.
     71
     72For troubleshooting tips, see the [TracModPython#Troubleshooting mod_python troubleshooting] section, as most Apache-related issues are quite similar, plus discussion of potential [http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ApplicationIssues application issues] when using mod_wsgi.
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     74''Note: using mod_wsgi 2.5 and Python 2.6.1 gave an Internal Server Error on my system (Apache 2.2.11 and Trac 0.11.2.1). Upgrading to Python 2.6.2 (as suggested [http://www.mail-archive.com/modwsgi@googlegroups.com/msg01917.html here]) solved this for me[[BR]]-- Graham Shanks''
     75
     76== Trac with PostgreSQL ==
     77
     78When using the mod_wsgi adapter with multiple Trac instances and PostgreSQL (or MySQL?) as a database back-end the server can get a lot of open database connections. (and thus PostgreSQL processes)
     79
     80A workable solution is to disabled connection pooling in Trac. This is done by setting poolable = False in trac.db.postgres_backend on the PostgreSQLConnection class.
     81
     82But it's not necessary to edit the source of trac, the following lines in trac.wsgi will also work:
     83
     84{{{
     85import trac.db.postgres_backend
     86trac.db.postgres_backend.PostgreSQLConnection.poolable = False
     87}}}
     88
     89Now Trac drops the connection after serving a page and the connection count on the database will be kept minimal.
     90
     91== Getting Trac to work nicely with SSPI and 'Require Group' ==
     92If like me you've set Trac up on Apache, Win32 and configured SSPI, but added a 'Require group' option to your apache configuration, then the SSPIOmitDomain option is probably not working.  If its not working your usernames in trac are probably looking like 'DOMAIN\user' rather than 'user'.
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     94This WSGI script 'fixes' things, hope it helps:
     95{{{
     96import os
     97import trac.web.main
     98
     99os.environ['TRAC_ENV'] = '/usr/local/trac/mysite'
     100os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/usr/local/trac/mysite/eggs'
     101
     102def application(environ, start_response):
     103    if "\\" in environ['REMOTE_USER']:
     104        environ['REMOTE_USER'] = environ['REMOTE_USER'].split("\\", 1)[1]
     105    return trac.web.main.dispatch_request(environ, start_response)
     106}}}
     107----
     108See also:  TracGuide, TracInstall, [wiki:TracFastCgi FastCGI], [wiki:TracModPython ModPython], [trac:TracNginxRecipe TracNginxRecipe]