Blogging Ottinger (tim)tracd
When starting the tracd server for trac you need to be careful how you read the basic-auth or auth command line. It says to give the root directory of the track environment as the first argument. It does not mean the path of the root directory. If you give the wrong value it will run, but logging in won’t work. You won’t even get a login popup window.
I learned this the hard way on Friday, and some nice #trac irc folks helped me get it right. Admittedly, most people are installing trac in earnest and will install in apache instead of playing with tracd, but if you’re evaluating or running it in fun this tip might be valuable to you.
Tim
