[Pkg-trac-devel] Bug#507018: Bug#507018: trac does not include cgi-bin

[Vincent Caron]

Shu Ning Bian wrote:
>
> cgi-bin/ directory (http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/cgi-bin) is missing
> from the trac install. This makes it difficult to deploy trac using CGI or
> fast CGI.

   It is not supposed to be distribued, cgi/fcgi scripts are actually 
generated as part of the "trac-admin <trac> deploy ..." command.

   I thought it was not handy, until I had troubles with my FastCGI 
setup where maintaing a per-vhost environment variable (think TRAC_ENV) 
would not work with Lenny's fcgid. Since I was using a unique, generic 
.fcgi script, it would be reused for different Trac instances without 
its environment being updated (obviously, it's only set once when the 
.fcgi instance starts, then serve thousands of requests with the same 
env). Conclusion: you really need a distinct .fcgi script per Trac 
instance. I tried hard links to re-use a generic one but adding 
"trac-admin ... deploy" was very easy to add in my setup scripts.

   The "deployed" scripts also properly set a trac-local egg cache path 
which is a good idea to avoid strange quircks with some plugins.

   All in one it's the recommended way and served me well. I think the 
Trac Apache doc is the culprit, it does not clearly mention "trac-admin 
deploy" and suggest that the .fcgi script simply "exists".