How to debug Trac?

Question

I have installed Trac and it reports the following error when I'm trying to access its page:

Internal Server Error

TracError: IOError: (13, 'Permission denied')

Any suggestions what needs to be checked?

Since you are getting a permission denied error the probably is almost certainly related to file-system permissions somewhere. I don't know Trac, but I would guess it needs to have a temp directory or data directory somewhere to be writeable.
enable logging (to file, debug level); that should give a traceback that will have useful clues.

Paul · Answer 1 · 2010-06-17 04:35:42Z

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Enable debug in trac.ini. Restart apache (usually is ran behind apache) and check for errors in trac.log
Also verify error.log from apache.

I guess you have to change the owner to apache's user for all files and dirs of your trac instance.

HTH

answered Jun 17 '10 at 4:35

Paul
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	The trac.log is empty. It does not write anything there. – grigy Jun 23 '10 at 19:11
	Changing the owner to apache's user fixed it. Thanks – grigy Jun 29 '10 at 12:55

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