I've been reading a few blog postings and forum pages about how people are finding it difficult to install Trac and Subversion on Windows. Well having moved over to a new Job at a New Company, I was tasked with installing it on one of their machines. Well I didn't want to look an idiot and install it straight on a machine and make it come tumbling down, having been a while since I installed it.

So I have VMWARE Fusion installed on my work MAC and I had an image of Windows XP, So i went ahead and install it to refresh my mind, before starting this I made a back up of the Virtual Image, I installed everything as required and it was running fine, then I realised I didn't really structure the install to well, so on the clean XP Machine I installed it all nicely in Folders on the D Drive and with Applications, separate form data and then the data separated out (Folder for the SVN Repository, Trac Repository and a Configuration Folder for config files).

So being happy that I have now installed it twice I was going to give it ago on the machine it was all meant for. but I noticed it had IIS running and a few other bits and knew about the Apache and IIS IP Issue so in the Windows XP Virtual Machine I installed VMWARE Converter converted the live machine to a VM to run in VMFusion. I then found a few caveats that I didn't find on the clean machines due to other software being installed but this was mainly down to the IIS and APACHE IP Conflict.

So I've installed Apache, Subversion and Trac Three times at this point, and no longer need to follow my own doc (I will do a dedicated posting soon). I installed Apache 2.0.61 / SVN 1.4.5 / Trac 0.11dev Latest.

I tried to install with Apache 2.2.6 But couldn't get it to work, first off and as I was under a bit of a time constraint I went back to 2.0.61 and since have got it all installed with Apache 2.2.6 on my home machine.

I've also installed a number of plug-ins and macros that I think really do enhance the features of trac, maybe my next job should be to learn how to create my own plug-ins :D. So the List of plugins I have installed:

batchmodify 0.2.0
Allows batch modification of tickets
Author: ashwinpphatak@gmail.com 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/BatchModifyPlugin 
License: BSD 
flexibleassignto 0.6
A Trac extension point for customizing the Assign To ticket field.
Author: gt4329b@pobox.com 
Home page: UNKNOWN 
License: BSD   
iniadmin 0.2
Expose all TracIni options using the Trac config option API
Author: UNKNOWN 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/IniAdminPlugin 
License: BSD 
timingandestimationplugin 0.5.7
Plugin to make Trac support time estimation and tracking
Author: russ@acceleration.net 
Home page: http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/TimingAndEstimationPlugin 
License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php 
tracaccountmanager 0.2dev-r2547
User account management plugin for Trac
Author: trac@matt-good.net 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin 
tracaddcommentmacro 0.3
Macro to add comments to a wiki page.
Author: UNKNOWN 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AddCommentMacro 
License: BSD 
traccustomfieldadmin 0.2
Admin panel for managing Trac ticket custom fields.
Author: UNKNOWN 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/CustomFieldAdminPlugin 
License: BSD 
traccustomroadmap 0.4
Plugin to provide a configurable roadmap in Trac.
Author: djc@object-craft.com.au 
Home page: http://www.object-craft.com.au/~djc 
License: BSD 
tracdatefield 1.0.1
Add custom date fields to Trac tickets.
Author: coderanger@yahoo.com 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DateFieldPlugin 
License: BSD 
tracmacropost 0.2  
Allow wiki macros to use POSTs
Author: coderanger@yahoo.com 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/MacroPostPlugin 
License: BSD 
tracmastertickets 2.1.1
Provides support for ticket dependencies and master tickets.
Author: coderanger@yahoo.com 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/MasterTicketsPlugin 
License: BSD 
tracrevtreeplugin 0.5.11dev-r2832
Revision Graph for the Version Control Browser
Author: emmanuel.blot@free.fr 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/RevtreePlugin 
License: BSD 
tractocmacro 11.0.0.2
A macro to create tables of contents.
Author: cboosr@neuf.fr 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro 
License: BSD   
tracwikigoodies 0.11.0.3dev
Plugin for Trac which extends the Wiki with some goodies
Author: cboos@neuf.fr 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/WikiGoodiesPlugin 
License: BSD 
tracwysiwyg 0.2-r2829
TracWiki WYSIWYG Editor
Author: omae@opengroove.com 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracWysiwygPlugin 
License: BSD 
tracxmlrpc 1.0.0
XML-RPC interface to Trac
Author: alec@swapoff.org 
Home page: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin 
License: BSD 
worklog 0.1
Plugin to manage the which tickets users are currently working on
Author: trac@colin.guthr.ie 
Home page: UNKNOWN 
License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php 

Over the next few weeks I hope to give an example on how each of these plugins work. I have also installed the trueHTTPLogout patch as well as a SVN Post-Commit hook to update tickets. Again I will cover these over the next few weeks. I will be doing all of this on the Windows platform (As I don't have a great knowledge of the Linux Platform at the moment)

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