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

[Steve B]

On 28/11/2008, at 12:35 AM, Vincent Caron wrote:

> 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".
Ah, fair enough. You are correct I had thought the *cgi scripts simply  
"exists" due to the trac apache/fast-cgi documentation. I am happy for  
the bug to be closed.

Thank you for your time and assistance Mr. Caron,
Steve