[SOLVED] Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

Hi,

Having a tough time setting up trac with apache on ubuntu. Get the feeling this is more of an apache or python issue with ubuntu. Finding hard to chase down because it seems to be failing silently.

So I have ubuntu server 10.10 fresh install. Onto which I have installed apache2, svn and trac (also git and trac git plugin).

Withing this setup I have used svnadmin to create a "testRepo" and trac-admin to create a "testProj" in the /var/svn/testRepo and /var/trac/testProj

I have configured apache for the svn by creating a svn file in the sites-available and linking it to the sites-enabled. This works great.

I followed a similar way with trac + mod_python as per places on the interweb. So creating a trac file in sites-available and linking it across.

However, the trac site does not work and I am just getting 404's.

My svn setup:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mybox ServerAlias svn ServerAdmin my.email@interwebs.com DocumentRoot /var/www ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/svn.error.log TransferLog /var/log/apache2/svn.access.log <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn AuthType Basic AuthName "Subversion" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/svn Require valid-user </Location> </VirtualHost>

My trac setup:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mybox ServerAlias trac ServerAdmin my.email@interwebs.com DocumentRoot /var/www ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/trac.error.log TransferLog /var/log/apache2/trac.access.log <Location /trac> SetHandler mod_python PythonInterpreter main_interpreter PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /var/trac PythonOption TracUriRoot /trac AuthType Basic AuthName "Trac Auth" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/svn Require valid-user </Location> </VirtualHost>

Logging is a little odd. So in /var/log/apache2

error.log:

Code:

[Wed Feb 23 14:29:12 2011] [error] python_init: Python version mismatch, expected '2.6.5', found '2.6.6'. [Wed Feb 23 14:29:12 2011] [error] python_init: Python executable found '/usr/bin/python'. [Wed Feb 23 14:29:12 2011] [error] python_init: Python path being used '/usr/lib/python2.6/:/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload'. [Wed Feb 23 14:29:12 2011] [notice] mod_python: Creating 8 session mutexes based on 6 max processes and 25 max threads. [Wed Feb 23 14:29:12 2011] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp [Wed Feb 23 14:29:13 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.12 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.6 configured -- resuming normal operations

Seems its moaning about the version of python, but also seems to say its ok. I'm hesitant to guess something may be up here.

Whats weird is when I try to access my site at mybox/trac/testProj, the trac.error.log + trac.access.log is completly empty.

My svn.access.log is as follows:

Code:

10.2.67.77 - - [23/Feb/2011:14:32:03 +0000] "GET /trac/testProj HTTP/1.1" 404 236

I thought this would have been in the trac.access.log, so I am very consufed its in the svn.access.log

So now I am stuck, for all intents I think it should be working, there are no major errors coming up (bar the 404's :P) that I can trac down, so I'm thinking there is a more fundamental problem in the way I have set the trac / apache config up that I am just not getting, or some oddness with mod_python.

I'm running a fresh ubuntu 10.10 64bit install.

Thanks for any help,
Jon

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

I was just googling for info on the Python error. I've got a very similar setup to yours. My logging is fine though. Maybe you need to have separate ServerName entries for svn and trac and not just different aliases in order for the logging to be separated.

Regards,
Doug

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

aha, thats (sortof) done the trick. I removed the svn from enabled sites, and then trac has started to work.

So yeah, looks like my apache config for these 2 sites simultaneously is incorrect, will have a play :P

Thanks very much! So happy to see trac working :P
Jon.

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

hmm so close, but having trouble.

I can get each site working independently but not together. Have tried in both files and by defining a mybox server file with both locations in, no luck :/

I feel I am doing something stupid with this apache config. I'm after the end result of

http://mybox/trac/<trac proj>
http://mybox/svn/<svn repo>

If I change the server names I just get 404's, keeping the server names and changing the alias makes the svn work but not trac. hmm, think my lack of apache understanding is showing through...

I will play some more. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Cheers,
Jon

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

I'm doing svn.example.com and trac.example.com both with ssl instead. Now I know it is not quite what you want for your setup, but here are my site site configs in case they can help you:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:443> ServerName svn.example.com <Location /> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn/svn.example.com SVNListParentPath On AuthType Basic AuthName "svn.example.com" AuthUserFile /var/svn/svn.example.com/passwd Require valid-user </Location> CustomLog /var/log/apache2/svn.example.com/access.log combined ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/svn.example.com/error.log SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem # Add this once there is a real (non self-signed) certificate. # SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName svn.example.com Redirect / https://svn.example.com/ </VirtualHost>

and

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName trac.example.com Redirect / https://trac.example.com/ </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName trac.example.com DocumentRoot /var/trac/trac.example.com/ Alias /trac/ /usr/share/pyshared/trac/htdocs <Directory "/usr/share/pyshared/trac/htdocs/"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Location /> SetHandler mod_python PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend PythonInterpreter main_interpreter PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /var/trac/trac.example.com/ PythonOption TracEnvIndexTemplate /var/trac/trac.example.com/available_projects_template.html PythonOption TracUriRoot / AuthType Basic AuthName "trac.example.com" # Use the SVN password file. AuthUserFile /var/svn/svn.example.com/passwd Require valid-user </Location> CustomLog /var/log/apache2/trac.example.com/access.log combined ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/trac.example.com/error.log SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem # Add this once there is a real (non self-signed) certificate. # SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key </VirtualHost>

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

Ooo thanks, that looks interesting, may take me a while to set this up. Yeah, I was hoping to do ssl but thought I'd just get the basics working first, will try and blend your config into mine and see what happens.

Just managed to get hudson set up and playing nice with apache, had to tinker with some args in /etc/defaults to get the reverse proxy + default server hidden. :)

Thanks again!
Jon

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

nope still stuck :/. Weird, having what seems to be the same issue. I can run one of these sites at a time.

Two things I am finding odd:

I specify trac.mybox and svn.mybox but it only ever resolves to https://mybox/ (so I can either access trac or svn)

Something I noticed in my error log doing it that way with the ssl
+ different server names was:

Code:

[Thu Feb 24 00:24:33 2011] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence

So it seems something it conflicting / overlapping.

Unsure why / how the trac.devbox and svn.devbox prefixes work, more research required...

I created the ssl .pem with the cn name mybox. (yeah ignoring the .com)

Know where this may be goin wrong?

Thanks,
Jon

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

Hmm, still having trouble. I feel there is something small / obvious missing in my understanding about how apache / domains work.

I'm guessing the reason svn.devbox trac.devbox do not resolve is becuase there is nothing my routers DNS to resolve that. However, I dont understand how these could be pointing to the same server, could see having 2 different servers on different IP's would work.

Odd that I can not get it to work both on http;//mybox/trac, http;//mybox/svn tho.

Any suggestions? I'm at a loss :/

Thanks,
Jon.

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

ok, seem to have it working now. I defined both these locations in 1 virtual hosts file. Which makes sense. From what I've read to do that how I wanted to in other files I need to configure multiple IP's somehow.

But it works this way good enough for now

Re: Ubuntu, Apache and trac oddness

Ah, managed to get it working and neatish. For anyone whos interested, this is my final site config file:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:443> # Server setup, logging + ssl ServerName mybox ServerAlias mybox CustomLog /var/log/apache2/mybox.access.log combined ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mybox.error.log SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem # Setup .htaccess for the root of the site <Location /> AuthType Basic AuthName "mybox" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords Require valid-user </Location> # Hudson setup - reverse proxy to hook up mybox/hudson to the localhost:8080/hudson SSLProxyEngine On SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem ProxyPass /hudson https://localhost:8080/hudson ProxyPassReverse /hudson https://localhost:8080/hudson ProxyRequests Off <Proxy https://localhost:8080/hudson*> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> # SVN config <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn/ SVNListParentPath On </Location> # Trac config Alias /trac/ /usr/share/pyshared/trac/htdocs <Directory "/usr/share/pyshared/trac/htdocs/"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Location /trac> SetHandler mod_python PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend PythonInterpreter main_interpreter PythonOption TracEnvParentDir /var/trac/ PythonOption TracEnvIndexTemplate /var/trac/available_projects_template.html PythonOption TracUriRoot /trac </Location> </VirtualHost>

To get hudson working you need to edit the /etc/default/hudson file (then do an /etc/init.d/hudson restart afterwards). The changes required are:

* set the HTTP_PORT variable to -1 (disables connecting via http)
* add a variable HTTPS_PORT=8080 and add --httpsPort=$HTTPS_PORT to the HUDSON_ARGS (enables connecting via https)
* add a --httpsListenAddress=$LISTEN_ADDRESS to the HUDSON_ARGS (sets the listen address for https)
* Change the LISTEN_ADDRESS variable to 127.0.0.1 (this is important as it makes the hudson server only available to the local server / hides it away from the outside world. Apache will do the reverse proxy to access it, i.e. hudson is being completely hidden behind apache + any auth it imposes)

Need to enable some modules for apache, cant remeber exactly, something like python, proxy, ssl + whatever is required for trac and svn.

Think thats all I did...