Guide – How To Start – Trac – Wiki Issue Tracking System on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on Amazon

This Trac – Wiki Issue Image is packaged to leverage cost-effectiveness, scalability and flexibility. The product has charges associated with it for support, maintenance, and pre-configuration to be instantaneously deployed on AWS Marketplace with all security and enterprise standards.

This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.

Configuring and connecting to Trac – Wiki Issue Tracking System for Ubuntu 18.04

1. After start-up, the VM server will launch automatically.
2. To open the site, go to the following address in any browser convenient for you http:// vm_ip:8000.
3. You will be asked to select the project. The system has already created one project called “Default project” by default.
4. For further setup and site operations, see the manuals and setup guides. You can find links at the bottom of the page in the “Starting Point” section or the “Help/Guide” link in the upper right of the page

Creation of new projects

1.  To connect to the VM, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instruction (by choosing the “file format:” option “.ppk” in point 3)

Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM

2. Download and run Putty
3. Go to the “SSH” section in the left panel and then to “Auth”.

4. In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
5. Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM and click “Open”.

6. In the opened console you will need to enter the login ubuntu
7. Еnter the following commands in sequence:

> sudo su

> mkdir -p /var/local/trac/new_project

> trac-admin /var/local/trac/new_project initenv

To replace “new_project”, enter the directory title for your new project

8. Enter the title of the new project and press “Enter” twice
9. Stop the trac service by the following command:

> systemctl stop trac

10. Open the file in the nano text editor:

> nano /lib/systemd/system/trac.service

11. Take the following actions in sequence:

Following the default project path, add your new project path (for example, /var/local/trac/new_project) .

Press Ctrl+X to exit the file

Press “Y” to save the changes in the file

Press “Enter” to confirm the changes in the file

12. To apply the changes, enter the following command:

> systemctl daemon-reload

13. Launch the service again by the following command:

> systemctl start trac