The Trac Configuration File
Trac configuration is done by editing the trac.ini config file, located in <projectenv>/conf/trac.ini.
Global Configuration
Since version 0.9, Trac can also read the configuration from a global trac.ini file. These global options will then be merged with the environment-specific options, where local options override global options.
The global configuration is by default localted in $prefix/share/trac/conf/trac.ini. It can be moved to a different location (for example, /etc/trac.ini), but that requires changing the file trac/siteconfig.py which gets created when Trac is installed.
Reference
This is a brief reference of available configuration options.
[account-manager]
| account_changes_notify_addresses | List of email addresses that get notified of user changes, ie,
new user, password change and delete user. |
| allow_delete_account | Allow users to delete their own account. |
| force_passwd_change | Force the user to change password when it's reset. |
| generated_password_length | Length of the randomly-generated passwords created when resetting
the password for an account. |
| hash_method | Default hash type of new/updated passwords |
| login_opt_list | Set to True, to switch login page style showing alternative actions
in a single listing together. |
| notify_actions | Comma separated list of actions to notify of.
Available actions 'new', 'change', 'delete'. |
| password_format | |
| password_store | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| reset_password | Set to False, if there is no email system setup. |
| username_char_blacklist | Always exclude some special characters from usernames.
This is enforced upon new user registration. |
| verify_email | Verify the email address of Trac users. |
[attachment]
| max_size | Maximum allowed file size (in bytes) for ticket and wiki
attachments. |
| 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 (which is the default). |
[browser]
| color_scale | Enable colorization of the age column.
This uses the same color scale as the source code annotation:
blue is older, red is newer.
(since 0.11) |
| downloadable_paths | List of repository paths that can be downloaded.
Leave the option empty if you want to disable all downloads, otherwise
set it to a comma-separated list of authorized paths (those paths are
glob patterns, i.e. "*" can be used as a wild card)
(since 0.10) |
| hide_properties | Comma-separated list of version control properties to hide from
the repository browser.
(since 0.9) |
| intermediate_color | (r,g,b) color triple to use for the color corresponding
to the intermediate color, if two linear interpolations are used
for the color scale (see intermediate_point).
If not set, the intermediate color between oldest_color and
newest_color will be used.
(since 0.11) |
| intermediate_point | If set to a value between 0 and 1 (exclusive), this will be the
point chosen to set the intermediate_color for interpolating
the color value.
(since 0.11) |
| newest_color | (r,g,b) color triple to use for the color corresponding
to the newest color, for the color scale used in blame or
the browser age column if color_scale is enabled.
(since 0.11) |
| oldest_color | (r,g,b) color triple to use for the color corresponding
to the oldest color, for the color scale used in blame or
the browser age column if color_scale is enabled.
(since 0.11) |
| oneliner_properties | Comma-separated list of version control properties to render
as oneliner wiki content in the repository browser.
(since 0.11) |
| render_unsafe_content | Whether raw files 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 create a file containing cross-site
scripting attacks.
For open repositories where anyone can check-in a file, it is
recommended to leave this option disabled (which is the default). |
| wiki_properties | Comma-separated list of version control properties to render
as wiki content in the repository browser.
(since 0.11) |
[changeset]
| max_diff_bytes | Maximum total size in bytes of the modified files (their old size
plus their new size) for which the changeset view will attempt to show
the diffs inlined (since 0.10). |
| max_diff_files | Maximum number of modified files for which the changeset view will
attempt to show the diffs inlined (since 0.10). |
| wiki_format_messages | Whether wiki formatting should be applied to changeset messages.
If this option is disabled, changeset messages will be rendered as
pre-formatted text. |
| alt | Alternative text for the header logo. |
| height | Height of the header logo image in pixels. |
| link | URL to link to, from the header logo. |
| 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. |
| width | Width of the header logo image in pixels. |
[inherit]
| 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.
(since 0.11) |
| 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.
(since 0.11) |
[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. |
| 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
(see http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html), 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
(since 0.10.5) |
| log_level | Level of verbosity in log.
Should be one of (CRITICAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG). |
| log_type | Logging facility to use.
Should be one of (none, file, stderr, syslog, winlog). |
[milestone]
| stats_provider | Name of the component implementing ITicketGroupStatsProvider,
which is used to collect statistics on groups of tickets for display
in the milestone views. |
[mimeviewer]
| max_preview_size | Maximum file size for HTML preview. (since 0.9) |
| 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. (since 0.10) |
| pygments_default_style | The default style to use for Pygments syntax highlighting. |
| 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. |
| tab_width | Displayed tab width in file preview. (since 0.9) |
| treat_as_binary | Comma-separated list of MIME types that should be treated as
binary data. (since 0.11.5) |
[notification]
| admit_domains | Comma-separated list of domains that should be considered as
valid for email addresses (such as localdomain). |
| always_notify_owner | Always send notifications to the ticket owner (since 0.9). |
| always_notify_reporter | Always send notifications to any address in the reporter
field. |
| always_notify_updater | Always send notifications to the person who causes the ticket
property change and to any previous updater of that ticket. |
| ambiguous_char_width | Which width of ambiguous characters (e.g. 'single' or
'double') should be used in the table of 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. (since
0.12.2) |
| 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. (since 0.12) |
| ignore_domains | Comma-separated list of domains that should not be considered
part of email addresses (for usernames with Kerberos domains). |
| mime_encoding | Specifies the MIME encoding scheme for emails.
Valid options are 'base64' for Base64 encoding, 'qp' for
Quoted-Printable, and 'none' for no encoding, in which case mails will
be sent as 7bit if the content is all ASCII, or 8bit otherwise.
(since 0.10) |
| sendmail_path | Path to the sendmail executable.
The sendmail program must accept the -i and -f options.
(since 0.12) |
| smtp_always_bcc | Email address(es) to always send notifications to,
addresses do not appear publicly (Bcc:). (since 0.10). |
| smtp_always_cc | Email address(es) to always send notifications to,
addresses can be seen by all recipients (Cc:). |
| smtp_default_domain | Default host/domain to append to address that do not specify
one. |
| smtp_enabled | Enable email notification. |
| smtp_from | Sender address to use in notification emails. |
| smtp_from_name | Sender name to use in notification emails. |
| smtp_password | Password for SMTP server. (since 0.9) |
| smtp_port | SMTP server port to use for email notification. |
| smtp_replyto | Reply-To address to use in notification emails. |
| smtp_server | SMTP server hostname to use for email notifications. |
| smtp_subject_prefix | Text to prepend to subject line of notification emails.
If the setting is not defined, then the [$project_name] prefix.
If no prefix is desired, then specifying an empty option
will disable it. (since 0.10.1). |
| smtp_user | Username for SMTP server. (since 0.9) |
| ticket_subject_template | A Genshi text template snippet used to get the notification subject.
By default, the subject template is $prefix #$ticket.id: $summary.
$prefix being the value of the smtp_subject_prefix option.
(since 0.11) |
| use_public_cc | Recipients can see email addresses of other CC'ed recipients.
If this option is disabled (the default), recipients are put on BCC.
(since 0.10) |
| 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. (since 0.10) |
| use_tls | Use SSL/TLS to send notifications over SMTP. (since 0.10) |
[project]
| admin | E-Mail address of the project's administrator. |
| 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.
(since 0.11.3) |
| descr | Short description of the project. |
| footer | Page footer text (right-aligned). |
| icon | URL of the icon of the project. |
| name | Name of the 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. |
[query]
| default_anonymous_query | The default query for anonymous users. The query is either
in query language syntax, or a URL query
string starting with ? as used in query:
Trac links.
(since 0.11.2) |
| default_query | The default query for authenticated users. The query is either
in query language syntax, or a URL query
string starting with ? as used in query:
Trac links.
(since 0.11.2) |
| items_per_page | Number of tickets displayed per page in ticket queries,
by default (since 0.11) |
| ticketlink_query | The base query to be used when linkifying values of ticket
fields. The query is a URL query
string starting with ? as used in query:
Trac links.
(since 0.12) |
[report]
| items_per_page | Number of tickets displayed per page in ticket reports,
by default (since 0.11) |
| items_per_page_rss | Number of tickets displayed in the rss feeds for reports
(since 0.11) |
[revisionlog]
| default_log_limit | Default value for the limit argument in the TracRevisionLog
(since 0.11). |
[roadmap]
| stats_provider | Name of the component implementing ITicketGroupStatsProvider,
which is used to collect statistics on groups of tickets for display
in the roadmap views. |
[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.
(since 0.12) |
| min_query_length | Minimum length of query string allowed when performing a search. |
[sqlite]
| extensions | Paths to sqlite extensions, relative to Trac environment's
directory or absolute. (since 0.12) |
[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/* |
| 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 |
| listtagged_items_per_page | Number of tagged resources displayed per page in tag queries,
by default |
[ticket]
| default_cc | Default cc: list for newly created tickets. |
| default_component | Default component for newly created tickets. |
| default_description | Default description for newly created tickets. |
| default_keywords | Default keywords for newly created tickets. |
| default_milestone | Default milestone for newly created tickets. |
| default_owner | Default owner for newly created tickets. |
| default_priority | Default priority for newly created tickets. |
| default_resolution | Default resolution for resolving (closing) tickets
(since 0.11). |
| default_severity | Default severity for newly created tickets. |
| default_summary | Default summary (title) for newly created tickets. |
| default_type | Default type for newly created tickets (since 0.9). |
| default_version | Default version for newly created tickets. |
| max_comment_size | Don't accept tickets with a too big comment.
(since 0.11.2) |
| max_description_size | Don't accept tickets with a too big description.
(since 0.11). |
| preserve_newlines | Whether Wiki formatter should respect the new lines present
in the Wiki text.
If set to 'default', this is equivalent to 'yes' for new environments
but keeps the old behavior for upgraded environments (i.e. 'no').
(since 0.11). |
| restrict_owner | Make the owner field of tickets use a drop-down menu.
Be sure to understand the performance implications before activating
this option. See
Assign-to as Drop-Down List.
Please note that e-mail addresses are not obfuscated in the
resulting drop-down menu, so this option should not be used if
e-mail addresses must remain protected.
(since 0.9) |
| workflow | Ordered list of workflow controllers to use for ticket actions
(since 0.11). |
[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.
(Since 0.11) |
| changeset_collapse_events | Whether consecutive changesets from the same author having
exactly the same message should be presented as one event.
That event will link to the range of changesets in the log view.
(since 0.11) |
| changeset_long_messages | Whether wiki-formatted changeset messages should be multiline or
not.
If this option is not specified or is false and wiki_format_messages
is set to true, changeset messages will be single line only, losing
some formatting (bullet points, etc). |
| changeset_show_files | Number of files to show (-1 for unlimited, 0 to disable).
This can also be location, for showing the common prefix for the
changed files. (since 0.11). |
| default_daysback | Default number of days displayed in the Timeline, in days.
(since 0.9.) |
| max_daysback | Maximum number of days (-1 for unlimited) displayable in the
Timeline. (since 0.11) |
| newticket_formatter | Which formatter flavor (e.g. 'html' or 'oneliner') should be
used when presenting the description for new tickets.
If 'oneliner', the [timeline] abbreviated_messages option applies.
(since 0.11). |
| ticket_show_details | Enable the display of all ticket changes in the timeline, not only
open / close operations (since 0.9). |
[trac]
| authz_file | The path to the Subversion
authorization (authz) file.
To enable authz permission checking, the AuthzSourcePolicy permission
policy must be added to [trac] permission_policies. |
| authz_module_name | The module prefix used in the authz_file for the default
repository. If left empty, the global section is used. |
| 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. The default is 2.0 seconds.
(since 0.12) |
| auto_reload | Automatically reload template files after modification. |
| backup_dir | Database backup location |
| 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. |
| database | Database connection
string for this
project |
| debug_sql | Show the SQL queries in the Trac log, at DEBUG level.
(Since 0.11.5) |
| default_handler | Name of the component that handles requests to the base URL.
Options include TimelineModule, RoadmapModule, BrowserModule,
QueryModule, ReportModule, TicketModule and WikiModule. The
default is WikiModule. (since 0.9) |
| default_language | The preferred language to use if no user preference has been set.
(since 0.12.1) |
| default_timezone | The default timezone to use |
| genshi_cache_size | The maximum number of templates that the template loader will cache
in memory. The default value is 128. 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. |
| 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. |
| mainnav | Order of the items to display in the mainnav navigation bar,
listed by IDs. See also TracNavigation. |
| metanav | Order of the items to display in the metanav navigation bar,
listed by IDs. See also TracNavigation. |
| mysqldump_path | Location of mysqldump for MySQL database backups |
| never_obfuscate_mailto | Never obfuscate mailto: links explicitly written in the wiki,
even if show_email_addresses is false or the user has not the
EMAIL_VIEW permission (since 0.11.6). |
| 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.
Defaults to the DefaultPermissionPolicy? (pre-0.11 behavior) and
LegacyAttachmentPolicy? (map ATTACHMENT_* permissions to realm specific
ones) |
| permission_store | Name of the component implementing IPermissionStore, which is used
for managing user and group permissions. |
| pg_dump_path | Location of pg_dump for Postgres database backups |
| repository_dir | Path to the default repository. This can also be a relative path
(since 0.11).
This option is deprecated, and repositories should be defined in the
repositories section, or using the
"Repositories" admin panel. (since 0.12) |
| repository_sync_per_request | List of repositories that should be synchronized on every page
request.
Leave this option empty if you have set up post-commit hooks calling
trac-admin $ENV changeset added on all your repositories
(recommended). Otherwise, set it to a comma-separated list of
repository names. Note that this will negatively affect performance,
and will prevent changeset listeners from receiving events from the
repositories specified here. The default is to synchronize the default
repository, for backward compatibility. (since 0.12) |
| repository_type | Default repository connector type. (since 0.10)
This is also used as the default repository type for repositories
defined in TracIni#repositories-section repositories or using the
"Repositories" admin panel. (since 0.12) |
| request_filters | Ordered list of filters to apply to all requests
(since 0.10). |
| resizable_textareas | Make <textarea> fields resizable. Requires JavaScript.
(since 0.12) |
| 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. (since 0.11.2) |
| show_email_addresses | Show email addresses instead of usernames. If false, we obfuscate
email addresses. (since 0.11) |
| show_ip_addresses | Show IP addresses for resource edits (e.g. wiki).
(since 0.11.3) |
| timeout | Timeout value for database connection, in seconds.
Use '0' to specify no timeout. (Since 0.11) |
| 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. (since 0.10.5) |
[versioncontrol]
| allowed_repository_dir_prefixes | Comma-separated list of allowed prefixes for repository
directories when adding and editing repositories in the repository
admin panel. If the list is empty, all repository directories are
allowed. (since 0.12.1) |
[wiki]
| ignore_missing_pages | Enable/disable highlighting CamelCase links to missing pages
(since 0.9). |
| max_size | Maximum allowed wiki page size in bytes. (since 0.11.2) |
| render_unsafe_content | Enable/disable the use of unsafe HTML tags such as <script> or
<embed> with the HTML WikiProcessor
(since 0.10.4).
For public sites where anonymous users can edit the wiki it is
recommended to leave this option disabled (which is the default). |
| safe_schemes | List of URI schemes considered "safe", that will be rendered as
external links even if [wiki] render_unsafe_content is false.
(since 0.11.8) |
| split_page_names | Enable/disable splitting the WikiPageNames with space characters
(since 0.10). |
[components]
(since 0.9)
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
Note that prior to Trac r2335 (that applies to 0.9b1 and 0.9b2), you would use a [disabled_components] section instead. See a previous version of this page for the details.
See also: TracGuide, TracAdmin, TracEnvironment
