Tag: trac

Dear Diary: Running Trac and upgrading to Ubuntu Server 14.04

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I’m a fairly heavy user of trac. I’ve got various software projects I organize using trac. I decided to upgrade one of my Ubuntu 12.04 servers to Ubuntu 14.04 and of course ran in to the typical apache2 headaches that are born out of this particular transition.

After remembering to rename my virtual host files with .conf extensions (I find that change annoying as hell on its own), I kept running aground with an Internal Server Error message to which I couldn’t even find a hint in my logs, even after cranking up the verbosity.

 

Screen Shot 2014-09-17 at 6.00.23 PM

 

SIGH

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Trac Authenticating Through Active Directory

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A minor post – mostly for my own notes..

I was setting up an instance of Trac and I wanted Active Directory authentication going. I’ve had this before, but I recently learned of Centrify which provides a VERY easy means to setup system authentication with AD. This meant I needed to find a Centrify-specific way to get AD authentication going in Trac.

I was close to an obvious simple solution for a fair while, but I kept running in to error messages like:

[error] [client jay] GROUP: mrjay not in required group(s)., referer: http://trac/

Here’s the steps I followed that not only get this far, but got past through to working just fine…
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