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The Trac Configuration File

[Note To Editors] Please discuss documentation changes in the #Discussion section. Even better, send us documentation patches against the code (i.e. where the configuration entries are documented), either on Trac-dev or on new tickets.

Trac configuration is done by editing the trac.ini config file, located in <projectenv>/conf/trac.ini. Changes to the configuration are usually reflected immediately, though changes to the [components] or [logging] sections will require restarting the web server. You may also need to restart the web server after creating a global configuration file when none was previously present.

The trac.ini configuration file and its parent directory should be writable by the web server, as Trac currently relies on the possibility to trigger a complete environment reload to flush its caches.

Global Configuration

In versions prior to 0.11, the global configuration was by default located in $prefix/share/trac/conf/trac.ini or /etc/trac/trac.ini, depending on the distribution. If you're upgrading, you may want to specify that file to inherit from. Literally, when you're upgrading to 0.11, you have to add an [inherit] section to your project's trac.ini file. Additionally, you have to move your customized templates and common images from $prefix/share/trac/... to the new location.

Global options will be merged with the environment-specific options, where local options override global options. The options file is specified as follows:

[inherit]
file = /path/to/global/trac.ini

Multiple files can be specified using a comma-separated list.

Note that you can also specify a global option file when creating a new project, by adding the option --inherit=/path/to/global/trac.ini to trac-admin's initenv command. If you do not do this but nevertheless intend to use a global option file with your new environment, you will have to go through the newly generated conf/trac.ini file and delete the entries that will otherwise override those set in the global file.

There are two more entries in the [inherit] section, templates_dir for sharing global templates and plugins_dir, for sharing plugins. Those entries can themselves be specified in the shared configuration file, and in fact, configuration files can even be chained if you specify another [inherit] file there.

Note that the templates found in the templates/ directory of the TracEnvironment have precedence over those found in [inherit] templates_dir. In turn, the latter have precedence over the installed templates, so be careful about what you put there, notably if you override a default template be sure to refresh your modifications when you upgrade to a new version of Trac (the preferred way to perform TracInterfaceCustomization being still to write a custom plugin doing an appropriate ITemplateStreamFilter transformation).

Reference for settings

This is a brief reference of available configuration options, and their default settings.

Note that the [bitten], [spam-filter] and [vote] sections below are added by plugins enabled on this Trac, and therefore won't be part of a default installation.

[account-manager]

allow_delete_account

Allow users to delete their own account.

enabled
auth_init

Launch an initial Trac authentication setup.

enabled
db_htdigest_realm

Realm to select relevant htdigest db entries

(no default)
email_regexp

A validation regular expression describing new account emails. Define constraints for a valid email address. A custom pattern can narrow or widen scope i.e. to accept UTF-8 characters.

(?i)^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z0-9-]{2,63}$
environ_auth_overwrite

Whether environment variable REMOTE_USER should get overwritten after processing login form input. Otherwise it will only be set, if unset at the time of authentication.

enabled
force_passwd_change

Force the user to change password when it's reset.

enabled
generated_password_length

Length of the randomly-generated passwords created when resetting the password for an account.

8
hash_method

IPasswordHashMethod used to create new/updated passwords

HtDigestHashMethod
login_attempt_max_count

Lock user account after specified number of login attempts. Value zero means no limit.

0
login_opt_list

Set to True, to switch login page style showing alternative actions in a single listing together.

disabled
password_store

Ordered list of password stores, queried in turn.

(no default)
persistent_sessions

Allow the user to be remembered across sessions without needing to re-authenticate. This is, user checks a "Remember Me" checkbox and, next time he visits the site, he'll be remembered.

disabled
refresh_passwd

Re-set passwords on successful authentication. This is most useful to move users to a new password store or enforce new store configuration (i.e. changed hash type), but should be disabled/unset otherwise.

disabled
register_basic_question

A question to ask instead of the standard prompt, to which the value of register_basic_token is the answer. Setting to empty string (default value) keeps the standard prompt.

(no default)
register_basic_token

A string required as input to pass verification.

(no default)
register_check

Ordered list of IAccountRegistrationInspector's to use for registration checks.

BasicCheck,EmailCheck,BotTrapCheck,RegExpCheck,UsernamePermCheck
require_approval

Whether account registration requires administrative approval to enable the account or not.

disabled
reset_password

Set to False, if there is no email system setup.

enabled
user_lock_max_time

Limit user account lock time to specified time (seconds). This is relevant only with user_lock_time_progression > 1.

86400
user_lock_time

Drop user account lock after specified time (seconds). Value zero means unlimited lock time.

0
user_lock_time_progression

Extend user account lock time incrementally. This is based on logarithmic calculation and decimal numbers accepted: Value '1' means constant lock time per failed login attempt. Value '2' means double locktime after 2nd lock activation, four times the initial locktime after 3rd, and so on.

1
username_char_blacklist

Always exclude some special characters from usernames. This is enforced upon new user registration.

:[]
username_regexp

A validation regular expression describing new usernames. Define constraints for allowed user names corresponding to local naming policy.

(?i)^[A-Z0-9.\-_]{5,}$

[attachment]

max_size

Maximum allowed file size (in bytes) for attachments.

262144
max_zip_size

Maximum allowed total size (in bytes) for an attachment list to be downloadable as a .zip. Set this to -1 to disable download as .zip. (since 1.0)

2097152
render_unsafe_content

Whether attachments should be rendered in the browser, or only made downloadable.

Pretty much any file may be interpreted as HTML by the browser, which allows a malicious user to attach a file containing cross-site scripting attacks.

For public sites where anonymous users can create attachments it is recommended to leave this option disabled.

disabled

[components]

This section is used to enable or disable components provided by plugins, as well as by Trac itself. The component to enable/disable is specified via the name of the option. Whether its enabled is determined by the option value; setting the value to enabled or on will enable the component, any other value (typically disabled or off) will disable the component.

The option name is either the fully qualified name of the components or the module/package prefix of the component. The former enables/disables a specific component, while the latter enables/disables any component in the specified package/module.

Consider the following configuration snippet:

[components]
trac.ticket.report.ReportModule = disabled
acct_mgr.* = enabled

The first option tells Trac to disable the report module. The second option instructs Trac to enable all components in the acct_mgr package. Note that the trailing wildcard is required for module/package matching.

To view the list of active components, go to the Plugins page on About Trac (requires CONFIG_VIEW permissions).

See also: TracPlugins

[extra-permissions]

This section provides a way to add arbitrary permissions to a Trac environment. This can be useful for adding new permissions to use for workflow actions, for example.

To add new permissions, create a new section [extra-permissions] in your trac.ini. Every entry in that section defines a meta-permission and a comma-separated list of permissions. For example:

[extra-permissions]
EXTRA_ADMIN = EXTRA_VIEW, EXTRA_MODIFY, EXTRA_DELETE

This entry will define three new permissions EXTRA_VIEW, EXTRA_MODIFY and EXTRA_DELETE, as well as a meta-permissions EXTRA_ADMIN that grants all three permissions.

The permissions are created in upper-case characters regardless of the casing of the definitions in trac.ini. For example, the definition extra_view would create the permission EXTRA_VIEW.

If you don't want a meta-permission, start the meta-name with an underscore (_):

[extra-permissions]
_perms = EXTRA_VIEW, EXTRA_MODIFY

[fullblog]

all_rss_icons

Controls whether or not to display rss icons more than once

disabled
archive_rss_icon

Controls whether or not to display the rss icon

enabled
default_postname

Option for a default naming scheme for new posts. The string can include substitution markers for time (UTC) and user: %Y=year, %m=month, %d=day, %H=hour, %M=minute, %S=second, $USER. Example template string: %Y/%m/%d/my_topic

(no default)
month_names

Ability to specify a list of month names for display in groupings. If empty it will make a list from default locale setting. Enter list of 12 months like: month_names = January, February, ..., December

(no default)
num_items_front

Option to specify how many recent posts to display on the front page of the Blog (and RSS feeds).

20
personal_blog

When using the Blog as a personal blog (only one author), setting to 'True' will disable the display of 'Browse by author:' in sidebar, and also removes various author links and references.

disabled

[git]

cached_repository

Wrap GitRepository in CachedRepository.

disabled
git_bin

Path to the git executable.

git
git_fs_encoding

Define charset encoding of paths within git repositories.

utf-8
persistent_cache

Enable persistent caching of commit tree.

disabled
shortrev_len

The length at which a sha1 is abbreviated (must be >= 4 and <= 40).

7
trac_user_rlookup

Enable reverse mapping of git email addresses to trac user ids. Performance will be reduced if there are many users and the cached_repository option is disabled.

A repository resync is required after changing the value of this option.

disabled
use_committer_id

Use git-committer id instead of git-author id for the changeset Author field.

enabled
use_committer_time

Use git-committer timestamp instead of git-author timestamp for the changeset Timestamp field.

enabled
wikishortrev_len

The minimum length at which a hex-string in wiki content is formatted as a changeset TracLink (must be >= 4 and <= 40).

40

[gitweb-repositories]

projects_base

Path to the base of your git projects

(no default)
projects_list

Path to a gitweb-formatted projects.list

(no default)
projects_url

Template for project URLs. %s will be replaced with the repo name

(no default)
sync_per_request

Repositories to sync on every request (not recommended).

(no default)

[header_logo]

alt

Alternative text for the header logo.

(please configure the [header_logo] section in trac.ini)
height

Height of the header logo image in pixels.

-1
src

URL of the image to use as header logo. It can be absolute, server relative or relative.

If relative, it is relative to one of the /chrome locations: site/your-logo.png if your-logo.png is located in the htdocs folder within your TracEnvironment; common/your-logo.png if your-logo.png is located in the folder mapped to the htdocs_location URL. Only specifying your-logo.png is equivalent to the latter.

site/your_project_logo.png
width

Width of the header logo image in pixels.

-1

[http-headers]

Headers to be added to the HTTP request. (since 1.2.3)

The header name must conform to RFC7230 and the following reserved names are not allowed: content-type, content-length, location, etag, pragma, cache-control, expires.

[inherit]

htdocs_dir

Path to the shared htdocs directory.

Static resources in that directory are mapped to /chrome/shared under the environment URL, in addition to common and site locations.

This can be useful in site.html for common interface customization of multiple Trac environments.

Non-absolute paths are relative to the Environment conf directory. (since 1.0)

(no default)
plugins_dir

Path to the shared plugins directory.

Plugins in that directory are loaded in addition to those in the directory of the environment plugins, with this one taking precedence.

Non-absolute paths are relative to the Environment conf directory.

(no default)
templates_dir

Path to the shared templates directory.

Templates in that directory are loaded in addition to those in the environments templates directory, but the latter take precedence.

Non-absolute paths are relative to the Environment conf directory.

(no default)

[intertrac]

This section configures InterTrac prefixes. Option names in this section that contain a . are of the format <name>.<attribute>. Option names that don't contain a . define an alias.

The .url attribute is mandatory and is used for locating the other Trac. This can be a relative path when the other Trac environment is located on the same server.

The .title attribute is used for generating a tooltip when the cursor is hovered over an InterTrac link.

Example configuration:

[intertrac]
# -- Example of setting up an alias:
t = trac

# -- Link to an external Trac:
genshi.title = Edgewall's Trac for Genshi
genshi.url = https://genshi.edgewall.org

[interwiki]

Every option in the [interwiki] section defines one InterWiki prefix. The option name defines the prefix. The option value defines the URL, optionally followed by a description separated from the URL by whitespace. Parametric URLs are supported as well.

Example:

[interwiki]
MeatBall = http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?
PEP = http://www.python.org/peps/pep-$1.html Python Enhancement Proposal $1
tsvn = tsvn: Interact with TortoiseSvn

[logging]

log_file

If log_type is file, this should be a path to the log-file. Relative paths are resolved relative to the log directory of the environment.

trac.log
log_format

Custom logging format.

If nothing is set, the following will be used:

Trac[$(module)s] $(levelname)s: $(message)s

In addition to regular key names supported by the Python logger library one could use:

  • $(path)s the path for the current environment
  • $(basename)s the last path component of the current environment
  • $(project)s the project name

Note the usage of $(...)s instead of %(...)s as the latter form would be interpreted by the ConfigParser itself.

Example: ($(thread)d) Trac[$(basename)s:$(module)s] $(levelname)s: $(message)s

(no default)
log_level

Level of verbosity in log.

Should be one of (CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG).

INFO
log_type

Logging facility to use.

Should be one of (none, file, stderr, syslog, winlog).

file

Configures the main navigation bar, which by default contains Wiki, Timeline, Roadmap, Browse Source, View Tickets, New Ticket, Search and Admin.

The label, href, and order attributes can be specified. Entries can be disabled by setting the value of the navigation item to disabled.

The following example renames the link to WikiStart to Home, links the View Tickets entry to a specific report and disables the Search entry.

[mainnav]
wiki.label = Home
tickets.href = /report/24
search = disabled

See TracNavigation for more details.

[metanav]

Configures the meta navigation entries, which by default are Login, Logout, Preferences, Help/Guide and About Trac. The allowed attributes are the same as for [mainnav]. Additionally, a special entry is supported - logout.redirect is the page the user sees after hitting the logout button. For example:

[metanav]
logout.redirect = wiki/Logout

See TracNavigation for more details.

[mimeviewer]

max_preview_size

Maximum file size for HTML preview.

262144
mime_map

List of additional MIME types and keyword mappings. Mappings are comma-separated, and for each MIME type, there's a colon (":") separated list of associated keywords or file extensions.

text/x-dylan:dylan,text/x-idl:ice,text/x-ada:ads:adb
mime_map_patterns

List of additional MIME types associated to filename patterns. Mappings are comma-separated, and each mapping consists of a MIME type and a Python regexp used for matching filenames, separated by a colon (":"). (since 1.0)

text/plain:README(?!\.rst)|INSTALL(?!\.rst)|COPYING.*
pygments_default_style

The default style to use for Pygments syntax highlighting.

trac
pygments_modes

List of additional MIME types known by Pygments.

For each, a tuple mimetype:mode:quality has to be specified, where mimetype is the MIME type, mode is the corresponding Pygments mode to be used for the conversion and quality is the quality ratio associated to this conversion. That can also be used to override the default quality ratio used by the Pygments render.

(no default)
tab_width

Displayed tab width in file preview.

8
treat_as_binary

Comma-separated list of MIME types that should be treated as binary data.

application/octet-stream,application/pdf,application/postscript,application/msword,application/rtf

[notification]

admit_domains

Comma-separated list of domains that should be considered as valid for email addresses (such as localdomain).

(no default)
ambiguous_char_width

Width of ambiguous characters that should be used in the table of the notification mail.

If single, the same width as characters in US-ASCII. This is expected by most users. If double, twice the width of US-ASCII characters. This is expected by CJK users.

single
batch_subject_template

Like ticket_subject_template but for batch modifications. (since 1.0)

${prefix} Batch modify: ${tickets_descr}
default_format.email

Default format to distribute email notifications.

text/plain
email_address_resolvers

Comma separated list of email resolver components in the order they will be called. If an email address is resolved, the remaining resolvers will not be called.

SessionEmailResolver
email_sender

Name of the component implementing IEmailSender.

This component is used by the notification system to send emails. Trac currently provides SmtpEmailSender for connecting to an SMTP server, and SendmailEmailSender for running a sendmail-compatible executable.

SmtpEmailSender
ignore_domains

Comma-separated list of domains that should not be considered part of email addresses (for usernames with Kerberos domains).

(no default)
message_id_hash

Hash algorithm to create unique Message-ID header. (since 1.0.13)

md5
mime_encoding

Specifies the MIME encoding scheme for emails.

Supported values are: none, the default value which uses 7-bit encoding if the text is plain ASCII or 8-bit otherwise. base64, which works with any kind of content but may cause some issues with touchy anti-spam/anti-virus engine. qp or quoted-printable, which works best for european languages (more compact than base64) if 8-bit encoding cannot be used.

none
sendmail_path

Path to the sendmail executable.

The sendmail program must accept the -i and -f options.

sendmail
smtp_always_bcc

Comma-separated list of email addresses to always send notifications to. Addresses are not public (Bcc:).

(no default)
smtp_always_cc

Comma-separated list of email addresses to always send notifications to. Addresses can be seen by all recipients (Cc:).

(no default)
smtp_default_domain

Default host/domain to append to addresses that do not specify one. Fully qualified addresses are not modified. The default domain is appended to all username/login for which an email address cannot be found in the user settings.

(no default)
smtp_enabled

Enable email notification.

disabled
smtp_from

Sender address to use in notification emails.

At least one of smtp_from and smtp_replyto must be set, otherwise Trac refuses to send notification mails.

trac@localhost
smtp_from_author

Use the author of the change as the sender in notification emails (e.g. reporter of a new ticket, author of a comment). If the author hasn't set an email address, smtp_from and smtp_from_name are used instead. (since 1.0)

disabled
smtp_from_name

Sender name to use in notification emails.

(no default)
smtp_password

Password for authenticating with SMTP server.

(no default)
smtp_port

SMTP server port to use for email notification.

25
smtp_replyto

Reply-To address to use in notification emails.

At least one of smtp_from and smtp_replyto must be set, otherwise Trac refuses to send notification mails.

trac@localhost
smtp_server

SMTP server hostname to use for email notifications.

localhost
smtp_subject_prefix

Text to prepend to subject line of notification emails.

If the setting is not defined, then [$project_name] is used as the prefix. If no prefix is desired, then specifying an empty option will disable it.

__default__
smtp_user

Username for authenticating with SMTP server.

(no default)
ticket_subject_template

A Jinja2 text template snippet used to get the notification subject.

The template variables are documented on the TracNotification page.

${prefix} #${ticket.id}: ${summary}
use_public_cc

Addresses in the To and Cc fields are visible to all recipients.

If this option is disabled, recipients are put in the Bcc list.

disabled
use_short_addr

Permit email address without a host/domain (i.e. username only).

The SMTP server should accept those addresses, and either append a FQDN or use local delivery. See also smtp_default_domain. Do not use this option with a public SMTP server.

disabled
use_tls

Use SSL/TLS to send notifications over SMTP.

disabled

[notification-subscriber]

The notifications subscriptions are controlled by plugins. All INotificationSubscriber components are in charge. These components may allow to be configured via this section in the trac.ini file.

See TracNotification for more details.

Available subscribers:

SubscriberDescription
AlwaysEmailSubscriber
CarbonCopySubscriberTicket that I'm listed in the CC field is modified
NewTicketSubscriberAny ticket is created
TicketOwnerSubscriberTicket that I own is created or modified
TicketPreviousUpdatersSubscriberTicket that I previously updated is modified
TicketReporterSubscriberTicket that I reported is modified
TicketUpdaterSubscriberI update a ticket

[project]

admin

E-Mail address of the project's administrator.

(no default)
admin_trac_url

Base URL of a Trac instance where errors in this Trac should be reported.

This can be an absolute or relative URL, or '.' to reference this Trac instance. An empty value will disable the reporting buttons.

.
descr

Short description of the project.

My example project
icon

URL of the icon of the project.

common/trac.ico
name

Name of the project.

My Project
url

URL of the main project web site, usually the website in which the base_url resides. This is used in notification e-mails.

(no default)

[pygments-lexer]

Configure Pygments lexer options.

For example, to set the PhpLexer options startinline and funcnamehighlighting:

[pygments-lexer]
php.startinline = True
php.funcnamehighlighting = True

The lexer name is derived from the class name, with Lexer stripped from the end. The lexer short names can also be used in place of the lexer name.

[search]

default_disabled_filters

Specifies which search filters should be disabled by default on the search page. This will also restrict the filters for the quick search function. The filter names defined by default components are: wiki, ticket, milestone and changeset. For plugins, look for their implementation of the ISearchSource interface, in the get_search_filters() method, the first member of returned tuple. Once disabled, search filters can still be manually enabled by the user on the search page.

(no default)
min_query_length

Minimum length of query string allowed when performing a search.

3

[spam-filter]

This section is used to handle all configurations used by spam filter plugin.

account_karma

By how many points a failed registration check impacts the overall score.

0
account_replace_checks

Replace checks in account manager totally.

disabled
akismet_api_key

Wordpress key required to use the Akismet API.

(no default)
akismet_api_url

URL of the Akismet service.

rest.akismet.com/1.1/
akismet_karma

By how many points an Akismet reject impacts the overall karma of a submission.

10
attachment_karma

The karma given to attachments.

0
attachment_sample_size

The maximum number of bytes from an attachment to pass through the spam filters.

16384
authenticated_karma

The karma given to authenticated users, in case trust_authenticated is false.

20
badcontent_file

Local file to be loaded to get BadContent. Can be used in addition to BadContent wiki page.

(no default)
botscout_api_key

API key required to use BotScout.

(no default)
botscout_karma

By how many points a BotScout reject impacts the overall karma of a submission.

3
captcha

CAPTCHA method to use for verifying humans.

ExpressionCaptcha
captcha_expression_ceiling

Maximum value of individual terms in numeric CAPTCHA expression.

10
captcha_expression_terms

Number of terms in numeric CAPTCHA expression.

3
captcha_failed_karma

By how many points a failed CAPTCHA impacts the overall score.

1
captcha_karma

By how many points a successful CAPTCHA response increases the overall score.

20
captcha_karma_lifetime

Time in seconds that a successful CAPTCHA response increases karma.

86400
captcha_keycaptcha_private_key

Private key for KeyCaptcha usage.

(no default)
captcha_keycaptcha_user_id

User id for KeyCaptcha usage.

(no default)
captcha_lifetime

Time in seconds before database cleanup is called.

3600
captcha_recaptcha_private_key

Private key for reCaptcha usage.

(no default)
captcha_recaptcha_public_key

Public key for reCaptcha usage.

(no default)
ip_throttle_karma

By how many points exceeding the configured maximum number of posts per hour impacts the overall score.

3
ipbadcontent_file

Local file to be loaded to get BadIP. Can be used in addition to BadIP wiki page.

(no default)
ipregex_karma

By how many points a match with a pattern on the BadIP page impacts the overall karma of a submission.

20
is_forwarded

Interpret X-Forwarded-For header for IP checks.

disabled
logging_enabled

Whether all content submissions and spam filtering activity should be logged to the database.

enabled
max_posts_by_ip

The maximum allowed number of submissions per hour from a single IP address. If this limit is exceeded, subsequent submissions get negative karma.

10
min_karma

The minimum score required for a submission to be allowed.

0
nolog_obvious

Don't log obvious spam (Bayes >90%%, marked as spam and not authenticated) to the database.

disabled
purge_age

The number of days after which log entries should be purged.

7
regex_karma

By how many points a match with a pattern on the BadContent page impacts the overall karma of a submission.

5
register_karma

The karma given to registrations.

0
reject_handler

The handler used to reject content.

FilterSystem
report_pages

List of page types to add spam report link

wiki,attachment,ticket
session_karma

By how many points an existing and configured session improves the overall karma of the submission. A third of the points is granted for having an existing session at all, the other two thirds are granted when the user has his name and/or email address set in the session, respectively.

6
show_blacklisted

Show the matched bad content patterns in rejection message.

enabled
show_blacklisted_ip

Show the matched bad IP patterns in rejection message.

enabled
show_train_only

Show the buttons for training without deleting entry.

disabled
skip_external

Skip external calls when this negative karma is already reached by internal tests.

20
skip_externalham

Skip external calls when this positive karma is already reached by internal tests.

30
spam_monitor_entries

How many monitor entries are displayed by default (between 5 and 10000).

100
spam_report_entries

How many report entries are displayed by default (between 5 and 10000).

100
spam_user_defaultmode

Default mode for spam user admin panel.

overview
spam_user_maxage

How many days no login are considered for dead accounts.

200
spam_user_minwiki

How many wiki edits are still an unused account.

0
stop_external

Stop external calls when this negative karma is reached.

50
stop_externalham

Stop external calls when this positive karma is reached.

50
train_external

Allow training of external services.

enabled
trap_karma

By how many points a trap reject impacts the overall karma of a submission.

10
trap_name

Name of the invisible trap field, should contain some reference to e-mail for better results.

sfp_email
trap_name_hidden

Name of the hidden trap field, should contain some reference to e-mail for better results.

sfph_mail
trap_name_register

Name of the register trap field, should contain some reference to web/homepage for better results.

spf_homepage
trust_authenticated

Whether content submissions by authenticated users should be trusted without checking for potential spam or other abuse.

disabled
use_external

Allow usage of external services.

enabled

[sqlite]

extensions

Paths to sqlite extensions. The paths may be absolute or relative to the Trac environment.

(no default)

[svn]

branches

Comma separated list of paths categorized as branches. If a path ends with '*', then all the directory entries found below that path will be included. Example: /trunk, /branches/*, /projectAlpha/trunk, /sandbox/*

trunk,branches/*
eol_style

End-of-Line character sequences when svn:eol-style property is native.

If native, substitute with the native EOL marker on the server. Otherwise, if LF, CRLF or CR, substitute with the specified EOL marker.

(since 1.0.2)

native
tags

Comma separated list of paths categorized as tags.

If a path ends with '*', then all the directory entries found below that path will be included. Example: /tags/*, /projectAlpha/tags/A-1.0, /projectAlpha/tags/A-v1.1

tags/*

[svn:externals]

The TracBrowser for Subversion can interpret the svn:externals property of folders. By default, it only turns the URLs into links as Trac can't browse remote repositories.

However, if you have another Trac instance (or an other repository browser like ViewVC) configured to browse the target repository, then you can instruct Trac which other repository browser to use for which external URL. This mapping is done in the [svn:externals] section of the TracIni.

Example:

[svn:externals]
1 = svn://server/repos1                       http://trac/proj1/browser/$path?rev=$rev
2 = svn://server/repos2                       http://trac/proj2/browser/$path?rev=$rev
3 = http://theirserver.org/svn/eng-soft       http://ourserver/viewvc/svn/$path/?pathrev=25914
4 = svn://anotherserver.com/tools_repository  http://ourserver/tracs/tools/browser/$path?rev=$rev

With the above, the svn://anotherserver.com/tools_repository/tags/1.1/tools external will be mapped to http://ourserver/tracs/tools/browser/tags/1.1/tools?rev= (and rev will be set to the appropriate revision number if the external additionally specifies a revision, see the SVN Book on externals for more details).

Note that the number used as a key in the above section is purely used as a place holder, as the URLs themselves can't be used as a key due to various limitations in the configuration file parser.

Finally, the relative URLs introduced in Subversion 1.5 are not yet supported.

[tags]

cloud_caseless_sort

Whether the tag cloud should be sorted case-sensitive.

disabled
cloud_mincount

Integer threshold to hide tags with smaller count.

1
complete_field

Ticket field to which a drop-down tag list should be attached.

keywords
complete_matchcontains

Include partial matches in suggestion list. Default is true.

enabled
complete_sticky_tags

A list of comma separated values available for input.

(no default)
default_format

Set the default format for the handler of the /tags domain.

bulleted-list of "linked-id description (tags)"
oldlist (default value) The original format with a
compact bulleted-list of "linked-description"
table table... (see corresponding column option)
oldlist
default_table_cols

Select columns and order for table format using a "|"-separated list of column names.

Supported columns: realm, id, description, tags

id|description|tags
exclude_realms

Comma-separated list of realms to exclude from tags queries by default, unless specifically included using "realm:realm-name" in a query.

(no default)
ignore_closed_tickets

Do not collect tags from closed tickets.

enabled
listtagged_default_format

Set default format for the handler of the /tags domain.

See ListTagged description (WikiMacros) for supported values.

oldlist
listtagged_default_table_cols

Select columns and column order for table format.

See ListTagged description (WikiMacros) for supported values.

id|description|tags
listtagged_exclude_realms

Comma-separated list of realms to exclude from tags queries by default, unless specifically included using 'realm:<realm>' in a query.

(no default)
listtagged_items_per_page

Number of tagged resources displayed per page of tag query results requested by ListTagged macros and from /tags.

100
query_exclude_wiki_templates

Whether tagged wiki page templates should be queried.

enabled
revisable_realms

Comma-separated list of realms requiring tag change history.

wiki
separator

Character(s) to use as separators between tags. Default is a single whitespace.

ticket_fields

List of ticket fields to expose as tags.

keywords
ticket_help

If specified, 'keywords' label on ticket view will be turned into a link to this URL.

(no default)
ticket_help_newwindow

If true and keywords_help specified, wiki page will open in a new window. Default is false.

disabled
wiki_page_prefix

Prefix for tag wiki page names.

(no default)

[timeline]

abbreviated_messages

Whether wiki-formatted event messages should be truncated or not.

This only affects the default rendering, and can be overriden by specific event providers, see their own documentation.

enabled
default_daysback

Default number of days displayed in the Timeline, in days.

30
max_daysback

Maximum number of days (-1 for unlimited) displayable in the Timeline.

90

[trac]

anonymous_session_lifetime

Lifetime of the anonymous session, in days.

Set the option to 0 to disable purging old anonymous sessions. (since 1.0.17)

90
auto_preview_timeout

Inactivity timeout in seconds after which the automatic wiki preview triggers an update. This option can contain floating-point values. The lower the setting, the more requests will be made to the server. Set this to 0 to disable automatic preview.

2.0
auto_reload

Automatically reload template files after modification.

disabled
backup_dir

Database backup location

db
base_url

Reference URL for the Trac deployment.

This is the base URL that will be used when producing documents that will be used outside of the web browsing context, like for example when inserting URLs pointing to Trac resources in notification e-mails.

(no default)
check_auth_ip

Whether the IP address of the user should be checked for authentication (since 0.9).

disabled
database

Database connection string for this project

sqlite:db/trac.db
debug_sql

Show the SQL queries in the Trac log, at DEBUG level.

disabled
default_charset

Charset to be used when in doubt.

utf-8
default_date_format

The date format. Valid options are 'iso8601' for selecting ISO 8601 format, or leave it empty which means the default date format will be inferred from the browser's default language. (since 1.0)

(no default)
default_dateinfo_format

The date information format. Valid options are 'relative' for displaying relative format and 'absolute' for displaying absolute format. (since 1.0)

relative
default_handler

Name of the component that handles requests to the base URL.

Options include TimelineModule, RoadmapModule, BrowserModule, QueryModule, ReportModule, TicketModule and WikiModule.

The session preference for default handler take precedence, when set.

WikiModule
default_language

The preferred language to use if no user preference has been set.

(no default)
default_timezone

The default timezone to use

(no default)
genshi_cache_size

The maximum number of templates that the template loader will cache in memory. You may want to choose a higher value if your site uses a larger number of templates, and you have enough memory to spare, or you can reduce it if you are short on memory.

(deprecated, will be removed in Trac 1.5.1)

128
htdocs_location

Base URL for serving the core static resources below /chrome/common/.

It can be left empty, and Trac will simply serve those resources itself.

Advanced users can use this together with trac-admin ... deploy <deploydir> to allow serving the static resources for Trac directly from the web server. Note however that this only applies to the <deploydir>/htdocs/common directory, the other deployed resources (i.e. those from plugins) will not be made available this way and additional rewrite rules will be needed in the web server.

(no default)
ignore_auth_case

Whether login names should be converted to lower case (since 0.9).

disabled
jquery_location

Location of the jQuery JavaScript library (version 1.12.4).

An empty value loads jQuery from the copy bundled with Trac.

Alternatively, jQuery could be loaded from a CDN, for example: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js, http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.12.4.min.js or https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js.

(since 1.0)

(no default)
jquery_ui_location

Location of the jQuery UI JavaScript library (version 1.12.1).

An empty value loads jQuery UI from the copy bundled with Trac.

Alternatively, jQuery UI could be loaded from a CDN, for example: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js or http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js.

(since 1.0)

(no default)
jquery_ui_theme_location

Location of the theme to be used with the jQuery UI JavaScript library (version 1.12.1).

An empty value loads the custom Trac jQuery UI theme from the copy bundled with Trac.

Alternatively, a jQuery UI theme could be loaded from a CDN, for example: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/themes/start/jquery-ui.css or http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.12.1/themes/start/jquery-ui.css.

(since 1.0)

(no default)
mysqldump_path

Location of mysqldump for MySQL database backups

mysqldump
never_obfuscate_mailto

Never obfuscate mailto: links explicitly written in the wiki, even if show_email_addresses is false or the user doesn't have EMAIL_VIEW permission.

disabled
permission_policies

List of components implementing IPermissionPolicy, in the order in which they will be applied. These components manage fine-grained access control to Trac resources.

DefaultWikiPolicy,DefaultTicketPolicy,DefaultPermissionPolicy,LegacyAttachmentPolicy
permission_store

Name of the component implementing IPermissionStore, which is used for managing user and group permissions.

DefaultPermissionStore
request_filters

Ordered list of filters to apply to all requests.

(no default)
resizable_textareas

Make <textarea> fields resizable. Requires JavaScript.

enabled
secure_cookies

Restrict cookies to HTTPS connections.

When true, set the secure flag on all cookies so that they are only sent to the server on HTTPS connections. Use this if your Trac instance is only accessible through HTTPS.

disabled
show_email_addresses

Show email addresses instead of usernames. If false, email addresses are obfuscated for users that don't have EMAIL_VIEW permission.

disabled
show_full_names

Show full names instead of usernames. (since 1.2)

enabled
timeout

Timeout value for database connection, in seconds. Use '0' to specify no timeout.

20
use_base_url_for_redirect

Optionally use [trac] base_url for redirects.

In some configurations, usually involving running Trac behind a HTTP proxy, Trac can't automatically reconstruct the URL that is used to access it. You may need to use this option to force Trac to use the base_url setting also for redirects. This introduces the obvious limitation that this environment will only be usable when accessible from that URL, as redirects are frequently used.

disabled
use_chunked_encoding

If enabled, send contents as chunked encoding in HTTP/1.1. Otherwise, send contents with Content-Length header after entire of the contents are rendered. (since 1.0.6)

enabled
use_xsendfile

When true, send a X-Sendfile header and no content when sending files from the filesystem, so that the web server handles the content. This requires a web server that knows how to handle such a header, like Apache with mod_xsendfile or lighttpd. (since 1.0)

disabled
wiki_toolbars

Add a simple toolbar on top of Wiki <textarea>s. (since 1.0.2)

enabled
xsendfile_header

The header to use if use_xsendfile is enabled. If Nginx is used, set X-Accel-Redirect. (since 1.0.6)

X-Sendfile

[wiki]

default_edit_area_height

Default height of the textarea on the wiki edit page. (Since 1.1.5)

20
ignore_missing_pages

Enable/disable highlighting CamelCase links to missing pages.

disabled
max_size

Maximum allowed wiki page size in characters.

262144
render_unsafe_content

Enable/disable the use of unsafe HTML tags such as <script> or <embed> with the HTML WikiProcessor.

For public sites where anonymous users can edit the wiki it is recommended to leave this option disabled.

disabled
safe_origins

List of URIs considered "safe cross-origin", that will be rendered as img element without crossorigin="anonymous" attribute or used in url() of inline style attribute even if [wiki] render_unsafe_content is false (since 1.0.15).

To make any origins safe, specify "*" in the list.

data:
safe_schemes

List of URI schemes considered "safe", that will be rendered as external links even if [wiki] render_unsafe_content is false.

cvs,file,ftp,git,irc,http,https,news,sftp,smb,ssh,svn,svn+ssh
split_page_names

Enable/disable splitting the WikiPageNames with space characters.

disabled

Reference for special sections

  1. [components]
  2. [extra-permissions]
  3. [milestone-groups]
  4. [repositories]
  5. [svn:externals]
  6. [ticket-custom]
  7. [ticket-workflow]

[components]

This section is used to enable or disable components provided by plugins, as well as by Trac itself. The component to enable/disable is specified via the name of the option. Whether its enabled is determined by the option value; setting the value to enabled or on will enable the component, any other value (typically disabled or off) will disable the component.

The option name is either the fully qualified name of the components or the module/package prefix of the component. The former enables/disables a specific component, while the latter enables/disables any component in the specified package/module.

Consider the following configuration snippet:

[components]
trac.ticket.report.ReportModule = disabled
webadmin.* = enabled

The first option tells Trac to disable the report module. The second option instructs Trac to enable all components in the webadmin package. Note that the trailing wildcard is required for module/package matching.

See the Plugins page on About Trac to get the list of active components (requires CONFIG_VIEW permissions.)

See also: TracPlugins

[extra-permissions]

(since 0.12)

Custom additional permissions can be defined in this section when ExtraPermissionsProvider is enabled.

[milestone-groups]

(since 0.11)

As the workflow for tickets is now configurable, there can be many ticket states, and simply displaying closed tickets vs. all the others is maybe not appropriate in all cases. This section enables one to easily create groups of states that will be shown in different colors in the milestone progress bar.

Example configuration (the default only has closed and active):

closed = closed
# sequence number in the progress bar
closed.order = 0
# optional extra param for the query (two additional columns: created and modified and sort on created)
closed.query_args = group=resolution,order=time,col=id,col=summary,col=owner,col=type,col=priority,col=component,col=severity,col=time,col=changetime
# indicates groups that count for overall completion percentage
closed.overall_completion = true

new = new
new.order = 1
new.css_class = new
new.label = new

# one catch-all group is allowed
active = *
active.order = 2
# CSS class for this interval
active.css_class = open
# Displayed label for this group
active.label = in progress

The definition consists in a comma-separated list of accepted status. Also, '*' means any status and could be used to associate all remaining states to one catch-all group.

The CSS class can be one of: new (yellow), open (no color) or closed (green). New styles can easily be added using the following selector: table.progress td.<class>

[repositories]

(since 0.12 multirepos)

One of the alternatives for registering new repositories is to populate the [repositories] section of the trac.ini.

This is especially suited for setting up convenience aliases, short-lived repositories, or during the initial phases of an installation.

See TracRepositoryAdmin for details about the format adopted for this section and the rest of that page for the other alternatives.

[svn:externals]

(since 0.11)

The TracBrowser for Subversion can interpret the svn:externals property of folders. By default, it only turns the URLs into links as Trac can't browse remote repositories.

However, if you have another Trac instance (or an other repository browser like ViewVC) configured to browse the target repository, then you can instruct Trac which other repository browser to use for which external URL.

This mapping is done in the [svn:externals] section of the TracIni

Example:

[svn:externals]
1 = svn://server/repos1                       http://trac/proj1/browser/$path?rev=$rev
2 = svn://server/repos2                       http://trac/proj2/browser/$path?rev=$rev
3 = http://theirserver.org/svn/eng-soft       http://ourserver/viewvc/svn/$path/?pathrev=25914
4 = svn://anotherserver.com/tools_repository  http://ourserver/tracs/tools/browser/$path?rev=$rev

With the above, the svn://anotherserver.com/tools_repository/tags/1.1/tools external will be mapped to http://ourserver/tracs/tools/browser/tags/1.1/tools?rev= (and rev will be set to the appropriate revision number if the external additionally specifies a revision, see the SVN Book on externals for more details).

Note that the number used as a key in the above section is purely used as a place holder, as the URLs themselves can't be used as a key due to various limitations in the configuration file parser.

Finally, the relative URLs introduced in Subversion 1.5 are not yet supported.

[ticket-custom]

In this section, you can define additional fields for tickets. See TracTicketsCustomFields for more details.

[ticket-workflow]

(since 0.11)

The workflow for tickets is controlled by plugins. By default, there's only a ConfigurableTicketWorkflow component in charge. That component allows the workflow to be configured via this section in the trac.ini file. See TracWorkflow for more details.


See also: TracGuide, TracAdmin, TracEnvironment

Note: See TracWiki for help on using the wiki.