Eric Kow wrote:
Huh... I'm stumped.
What happens when you change it back?
chown -R root:trac /var/trac
That's so weird... it works. I can't imagine why it works now where it
didn't work before. I don't like it when computers act randomly.
What's more, I had the same problem in the trac_cache directory. I
"fixed" it the same way (by making it owned by www-data) and now I
changed it back and, once again, it works correctly.
And what's more, I had almost the same problem with the svn/db directory
(we're using Trac with both Darcs and Subversion), the same "fix", and
again, after changing it back it works.
From the looks of it, though, I don't think that it poses any problem
that /var/trac belong to www-data. It's not like you're giving it any
more rights to the directory than it already would have the g+w
permissions (is it?). Perhaps this could be a basis for simplifying the
howto.
Yeah, I guess you're right. I guess that my real concern is the
Subversion repository. I don't care if /var/trac and _darcs/trac_cache
are owned by www-data, but svn/db must be editable by developers.
Well, thank you very much for your help. I'm very glad your suggestion
worked.
I can't remember why exactly I have this complicated set up with the
trac group. I'm guessing that it is so set
/var/darcs/yourProj/yourRepo/_darcs/trac_cache to be owned by
yourProj:trac, so that both the project and the web server can write to
it. But that's kind of bad because it lets one project mess around with
the trac_cache of another. Using ACL to make it writeable by both
www-data and the user might be a better way to go.
Am I right in that there's no need for developers to touch trac_cache? I
set it to root:trac. Will that cause any problems?
In the case of Subversion's svn/db I put it in the group 'devel' and I
added Apache to this group. I don't like this solution but I don't know
any other way to make Trac work with Subversion while letting developers
do their work.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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