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Posted: 7th May 2009 by Grant Perry in Development tools (app), Programming (web), Technologies, Web servers, WindowsTags: best, development, favourite, software, tools, top, utilities
Over the years we all build up our own collections of tools which help us be more productive little soldiers. We realise a need for something to help us to achieve an end goal, or a lot of the time just ask ourselves “surely there is a faster and easier way of doing this”. The [...]
Adding additional Trac and SVN users is relatively simple. With Trac you can do this under Admin when logged in as an administrator thanks to the WebAdmin and AccountManagerPlugins! For adding a new subversion user just use this command: htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd john_smith This user will then have access to all of your subversion repositories because [...]
To create a new Trac project follow these steps: sudo -s -H trac-admin /var/trac/project initenv trac-admin /var/trac/project permission add admin TRAC_ADMIN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/trac/project Now to setup the new Trac project with the same plugins as the example project. This also uses the same password file. So use unique usernames and users spanning multiple [...]
To create a new Subversion repository follow these steps: mkdir /var/svn/project mkdir ~/project mkdir ~/project/branches mkdir ~/project/tags mkdir ~/project/trunk svnadmin create /var/svn/project svn import ~/project file:///var/svn/project -m "Initial directory import" After this you’ll see the three directories added. rm -rf ~/project chown -R www-data:www-data /var/svn/project apache2 -k restart Now you should be able to point [...]
Particularly if you’re publishing your SVN and Trac over the internet, you should change the defaults passwords for these that were in the VM you downloaded. To change the Subversion password: htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd admin To change the Trac password (one file is currently used for all trac projects) : htpasswd /var/trac/trac.htpasswd admin
For security reasons if you’re using any downloaded VM you should not leave the default root password as provided. To change the password: sudo passwd You’ll then be asked to enter the original password, then asked twice to enter the new password.
Obviously it’s a bad idea to have a server assigned a different IP address by your DHCP server when it comes up. So here are some basic instructions to set a static IP address on this Ubuntu server. sudo -s -H vi /etc/network/interfaces Then change the following line: iface eth0 inet dhcp to: iface eth0 [...]