The Trac Configuration File

Trac configuration is done by editing the trac.ini config file, located in <projectenv>/conf/trac.ini. Changes to the configuration are usually reflected immediately, though changes to the [components] or [logging] sections will require restarting the web server. You may also need to restart the web server after creating a global configuration file when none was previously present.

The trac.ini configuration file should be writable by the web server, as Trac currently relies on the possibility to trigger a complete environment reload to flush its caches.

Global Configuration

In versions prior to 0.11, the global configuration was by default located in $prefix/share/trac/conf/trac.ini or /etc/trac/trac.ini, depending on the distribution. If you're upgrading, you may want to specify that file to inherit from. Literally, when you're upgrading to 0.11, you have to add an [inherit] section to your project's trac.ini file. Additionally, you have to move your customized templates and common images from $prefix/share/trac/... to the new location.

Global options will be merged with the environment-specific options, where local options override global options. The options file is specified as follows:

[inherit]
file = /usr/share/trac/conf/trac.ini

Note that you can also specify a global option file when creating a new project, by adding the option --inherit=/path/to/global/options to trac-admin's initenv command. If do not do this but nevertheless intend to use a global option file with your new environment, you will have to go through the newly generated conf/trac.ini file and delete the entries that will otherwise override those set in the global file.

Reference

This is a brief reference of available configuration options.

Note that the [bitten], [spam-filter] and [vote] sections below are added by plugins enabled on this Trac, and therefore won't be part of a default installation.

[account-manager]

account_changes_notify_addresses	List of email addresses that get notified of user changes, ie, new user, password change and delete user.	(no default)
allow_delete_account	Allow users to delete their own account.	enabled
authentication_url	URL of the HTTP authentication service	(no default)
cookie_refresh_pct	Persistent sessions randomly get a new session cookie ID with likelihood in percent per work hour given here (zero equals to never) to decrease vulnerability of long-lasting sessions.	10
db_htdigest_realm	Realm to select relevant htdigest db entries	(no default)
environ_auth_overwrite	Whether environment variable REMOTE_USER should get overwritten after processing login form input. Otherwise it will only be set, if unset at the time of authentication.	enabled
force_passwd_change	Force the user to change password when it's reset.	enabled
generated_password_length	Length of the randomly-generated passwords created when resetting the password for an account.	8
hash_method	IPasswordHashMethod used to create new/updated passwords	HtDigestHashMethod
htdigest_file	Path relative to Trac environment or full host machine path to password file	(no default)
htdigest_realm	Realm to select relevant htdigest file entries	(no default)
login_attempt_max_count	Lock user account after specified number of login attempts. Value zero means no limit.	0
login_opt_list	Set to True, to switch login page style showing alternative actions in a single listing together.	disabled
notify_actions	Comma separated list of actions to notify of. Available actions 'new', 'change', 'delete'.
password_format	Legacy option, deprecated since acct_mgr-0.1.2	(no default)
password_store	Ordered list of password stores, queried in turn.	(no default)
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.	disabled
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.	disabled
register_basic_token	A string required as input to pass verification.	(no default)
register_check	Ordered list of IAccountRegistrationInspector's to use for registration checks.	BasicCheck, EmailCheck, BotTrapCheck, RegExpCheck, UsernamePermCheck
reset_password	Set to False, if there is no email system setup.	enabled
user_lock_max_time	Limit user account lock time to specified time (seconds). This is relevant only with user_lock_time_progression > 1.	86400
user_lock_time	Drop user account lock after specified time (seconds). Value zero means unlimited lock time.	0
user_lock_time_progression	Extend user account lock time incrementally. This is based on logarithmic calculation and decimal numbers accepted: Value '1' means constant lock time per failed login attempt. Value '2' means double locktime after 2nd lock activation, four times the initial locktime after 3rd, and so on.	1
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.	enabled

[attachment]

max_size	Maximum allowed file size (in bytes) for attachments.	262144
max_zip_size	Maximum allowed total size (in bytes) for an attachment list to be downloadable as a .zip. Set this to -1 to disable download as .zip. (since 1.0)	2097152
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).	false

[components]

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.

To view the list of active components, go to the Plugins page on About Trac (requires CONFIG_VIEW permissions).

See also: TracPlugins

[downloads]

additional_tags	Additional tags that will be created for submitted downloads. Possible values are: author, component, version, architecture, platform, type.	author,component,version,architecture,platform,type
architecture_sort	Column by which architectures list will be sorted. Possible values are: id, name, description.	name
architecture_sort_direction	Direction of architectures list sorting. Possible values are: asc, desc.	asc
consoleadmin_user	User who's permissions will be used to upload download. He/she should have TAGS_MODIFY permissions.	anonymous
download_sort	Column by which downloads list will be sorted. Possible values are: id, file, description, size, time, count, author, tags, component, version, architecture, platform, type.	time
download_sort_direction	Direction of downloads list sorting. Possible values are: asc, desc.	desc
ext	List of file extensions allowed to upload. Set to 'all' to specify that any file extensions is allowed.	zip,gz,bz2,rar
max_size	Maximum allowed file size (in bytes) for downloads. Default is 256 MB.	268697600
path	Path where to store uploaded downloads.	../downloads
platform_sort	Column by which platforms list will be sorted. Possible values are: id, name, description.	name
platform_sort_direction	Direction of platforms list sorting. Possible values are: asc, desc.	asc
type_sort	Column by which types list will be sorted. Possible values are: id, name, description.	name
type_sort_direction	Direction of types list sorting. Possible values are: asc, desc.	asc
unique_filename	If enabled checks if uploaded file has unique name.	disabled
visible_fields	List of downloads table fields that should be visible to users on Downloads section.	id,file,description,size,time,count,author,tags,component,version,architecture,platform,type

[fullblog]

all_rss_icons	Controls whether or not to display rss icons more than once	disabled
archive_rss_icon	Controls whether or not to display the rss icon	enabled
default_postname	Option for a default naming scheme for new posts. The string can include substitution markers for time (UTC) and user: %Y=year, %m=month, %d=day, %H=hour, %M=minute, %S=second, $USER. Example template string: %Y/%m/%d/my_topic	(no default)
month_names	Ability to specify a list of month names for display in groupings. If empty it will make a list from default locale setting. Enter list of 12 months like: month_names = January, February, ..., December	(no default)
num_items_front	Option to specify how many recent posts to display on the front page of the Blog (and RSS feeds).	20
personal_blog	When using the Blog as a personal blog (only one author), setting to 'True' will disable the display of 'Browse by author:' in sidebar, and also removes various author links and references.	disabled

[header_logo]

alt	Alternative text for the header logo.	(please configure the [header_logo] section in trac.ini)
height	Height of the header logo image in pixels.	-1
link	URL to link to, from the header logo.	(no default)
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.	site/your_project_logo.png
width	Width of the header logo image in pixels.	-1

[inherit]

htdocs_dir	Path to the shared htdocs directory. Static resources in that directory are mapped to /chrome/shared under the environment URL, in addition to common and site locations. This can be useful in site.html for common interface customization of multiple Trac environments. (since 1.0)	(no default)
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)	(no default)
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)	(no default)

[iniadmin]

excludes	Excludes this options. Comma separated list as section:name with wildcard characters (*, ?).	iniadmin:*,inherit:*
passwords	Show input-type as password instead of text. Comma separated list as section:name with wildcard characters.	trac:database,notification:smtp_password

[intertrac]

This section configures InterTrac prefixes. Options in this section whose name contain a "." define aspects of the InterTrac prefix corresponding to the option name up to the ".". Options whose name don't contain a "." define an alias.

The .url is mandatory and is used for locating the other Trac. This can be a relative URL in case that Trac environment is located on the same server.

The .title information is used for providing a useful tooltip when moving the cursor over an InterTrac link.

The .compat option can be used to activate or disable a compatibility mode:

• If the targeted Trac is running a version below ​0.10 (​r3526 to be precise), then it doesn't know how to dispatch an InterTrac link, and it's up to the local Trac to prepare the correct link. Not all links will work that way, but the most common do. This is called the compatibility mode, and is false by default.
• If you know that the remote Trac knows how to dispatch InterTrac links, you can explicitly disable this compatibility mode and then any TracLinks can become InterTrac links.

Example configuration:

[intertrac]
# -- Example of setting up an alias:
t = trac

# -- Link to an external Trac:
trac.title = Edgewall's Trac for Trac
trac.url = http://trac.edgewall.org

[interwiki]

Every option in the [interwiki] section defines one InterWiki prefix. The option name defines the prefix. The option value defines the URL, optionally followed by a description separated from the URL by whitespace. Parametric URLs are supported as well.

Example:

[interwiki]
MeatBall = http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?
PEP = http://www.python.org/peps/pep-$1.html Python Enhancement Proposal $1
tsvn = tsvn: Interact with TortoiseSvn

[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.	trac.log
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)	(no default)
log_level	Level of verbosity in log. Should be one of (CRITICAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG).	DEBUG
log_type	Logging facility to use. Should be one of (none, file, stderr, syslog, winlog).	none

[mimeviewer]

max_preview_size	Maximum file size for HTML preview. (since 0.9)	262144
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)	text/x-dylan:dylan, text/x-idl:ice, text/x-ada:ads:adb
mime_map_patterns	List of additional MIME types associated to filename patterns. Mappings are comma-separated, and each mapping consists of a MIME type and a Python regexp used for matching filenames, separated by a colon (":"). (since 1.0)	text/plain:README|INSTALL|COPYING.*
tab_width	Displayed tab width in file preview. (since 0.9)	8
treat_as_binary	Comma-separated list of MIME types that should be treated as binary data. (since 0.11.5)	application/octet-stream, application/pdf, application/postscript, application/msword, application/rtf

[notification]

admit_domains	Comma-separated list of domains that should be considered as valid for email addresses (such as localdomain).	(no default)
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)	SmtpEmailSender
ignore_domains	Comma-separated list of domains that should not be considered part of email addresses (for usernames with Kerberos domains).	(no default)
message_id_hash	Hash algorithm to create unique Message-ID header. (since 1.0.13)	md5
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)	none
sendmail_path	Path to the sendmail executable. The sendmail program must accept the -i and -f options. (since 0.12)	sendmail
smtp_always_bcc	Email address(es) to always send notifications to, addresses do not appear publicly (Bcc:). (since 0.10)	(no default)
smtp_always_cc	Email address(es) to always send notifications to, addresses can be seen by all recipients (Cc:).	(no default)
smtp_default_domain	Default host/domain to append to address that do not specify one.	(no default)
smtp_enabled	Enable email notification.	false
smtp_from	Sender address to use in notification emails.	trac@localhost
smtp_from_author	Use the action author as the sender of notification emails. (since 1.0)	false
smtp_from_name	Sender name to use in notification emails.	(no default)
smtp_password	Password for SMTP server. (since 0.9)	(no default)
smtp_port	SMTP server port to use for email notification.	25
smtp_replyto	Reply-To address to use in notification emails.	trac@localhost
smtp_server	SMTP server hostname to use for email notifications.	localhost
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)	__default__
smtp_user	Username for SMTP server. (since 0.9)	(no default)
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)	false
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)	false
use_tls	Use SSL/TLS to send notifications over SMTP. (since 0.10)	false

[permredirect]

redirect_login	Redirect unauthenticated users to /login/ on PermissionError?	true
redirect_login_https	Redirect all requests to /login/ to HTTPS	false

[privatewikis]

private_wikis

Wikis to protect.

Private

[project]

admin	E-Mail address of the project's administrator.	(no default)
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.	My example project
footer	Page footer text (right-aligned).	Visit the Trac open source project at<br /><a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a>
icon	URL of the icon of the project.	common/trac.ico
name	Name of the project.	My 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.	(no default)

[revisionlog]

default_log_limit	Default value for the limit argument in the TracRevisionLog. (since 0.11)	100
graph_colors	Comma-separated list of colors to use for the TracRevisionLog graph display. (since 1.0)	#cc0,#0c0,#0cc,#00c,#c0c,#c00

[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)	(no default)
min_query_length	Minimum length of query string allowed when performing a search.	3

[sqlite]

extensions

Paths to sqlite extensions, relative to Trac environment's directory or absolute. (since 0.12)

(no default)

[tags]

cloud_caseless_sort	Whether the tag cloud should be sorted case-sensitive.	disabled
cloud_mincount	Integer threshold to hide tags with smaller count.	1
complete_field	Ticket field to which a drop-down tag list should be attached.	keywords
complete_matchcontains	Include partial matches in suggestion list. Default is true.	enabled
complete_sticky_tags	A list of comma separated values available for input.	(no default)
default_format	Set the default format for the handler of the /tags domain. bulleted-list of "linked-id description (tags)" oldlist (default value) The original format with a compact bulleted-list of "linked-description" table table... (see corresponding column option)	oldlist
default_table_cols	Select columns and order for table format using a "|"-separated list of column names. Supported columns: realm, id, description, tags	id|description|tags
exclude_realms	Comma-separated list of realms to exclude from tags queries by default, unless specifically included using "realm:realm-name" in a query.
ignore_closed_tickets	Do not collect tags from closed tickets.	enabled
listtagged_default_format	Set default format for the handler of the /tags domain. See ListTagged description (WikiMacros) for supported values.	oldlist
listtagged_default_table_cols	Select columns and column order for table format. See ListTagged description (WikiMacros) for supported values.	id|description|tags
listtagged_exclude_realms	Comma-separated list of realms to exclude from tags queries by default, unless specifically included using 'realm:<realm>' in a query.
listtagged_items_per_page	Number of tagged resources displayed per page of tag query results requested by ListTagged macros and from /tags.	100
query_exclude_wiki_templates	Whether tagged wiki page templates should be queried.	enabled
revisable_realms	Comma-separated list of realms requiring tag change history.	wiki
separator	Character(s) to use as separators between tags. Default is a single whitespace.
ticket_fields	List of ticket fields to expose as tags.	keywords
ticket_help	If specified, 'keywords' label on ticket view will be turned into a link to this URL.	(no default)
ticket_help_newwindow	If true and keywords_help specified, wiki page will open in a new window. Default is false.	disabled
wiki_page_link	Link a tag to the wiki page with same name, if it exists.	enabled
wiki_page_prefix	Prefix for tag wiki page names.	(no default)

[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)	enabled
default_daysback	Default number of days displayed in the Timeline, in days. (since 0.9.)	30
max_daysback	Maximum number of days (-1 for unlimited) displayable in the Timeline. (since 0.11)	90

[trac]

auth_cookie_lifetime	Lifetime of the authentication cookie, in seconds. This value determines how long the browser will cache authentication information, and therefore, after how much inactivity a user will have to log in again. The default value of 0 makes the cookie expire at the end of the browsing session. (since 0.12)	0
auth_cookie_path	Path for the authentication cookie. Set this to the common base path of several Trac instances if you want them to share the cookie. (since 0.12)	(no default)
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)	2.0
auto_reload	Automatically reload template files after modification.	disabled
backup_dir	Database backup location	db
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.	(no default)
check_auth_ip	Whether the IP address of the user should be checked for authentication (since 0.9).	false
database	Database connection string for this project	sqlite:db/trac.db
debug_sql	Show the SQL queries in the Trac log, at DEBUG level. (Since 0.11.5)	disabled
default_charset	Charset to be used when in doubt.	utf-8
default_date_format	The date format. Valid options are 'iso8601' for selecting ISO 8601 format, or leave it empty which means the default date format will be inferred from the browser's default language. (since 1.0)	(no default)
default_dateinfo_format	The date information format. Valid options are 'relative' for displaying relative format and 'absolute' for displaying absolute format. (since 1.0)	relative
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)	WikiModule
default_language	The preferred language to use if no user preference has been set. (since 0.12.1)	(no default)
default_timezone	The default timezone to use	(no default)
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.	128
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.	(no default)
ignore_auth_case	Whether login names should be converted to lower case (since 0.9).	false
jquery_location	Location of the jQuery JavaScript library (version 1.7.2). An empty value loads jQuery from the copy bundled with Trac. Alternatively, jQuery could be loaded from a CDN, for example: ​http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js, ​http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.7.2.min.js or ​https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js. (since 1.0)	(no default)
jquery_ui_location	Location of the jQuery UI JavaScript library (version 1.8.21). An empty value loads jQuery UI from the copy bundled with Trac. Alternatively, jQuery UI could be loaded from a CDN, for example: ​https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/jquery-ui.min.js or ​http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.21/jquery-ui.min.js. (since 1.0)	(no default)
jquery_ui_theme_location	Location of the theme to be used with the jQuery UI JavaScript library (version 1.8.21). An empty value loads the custom Trac jQuery UI theme from the copy bundled with Trac. Alternatively, a jQuery UI theme could be loaded from a CDN, for example: ​https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/themes/start/jquery-ui.css or ​http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.21/themes/start/jquery-ui.css. (since 1.0)	(no default)
mainnav	Order of the items to display in the mainnav navigation bar, listed by IDs. See also TracNavigation.	wiki, timeline, roadmap, browser, tickets, newticket, search
metanav	Order of the items to display in the metanav navigation bar, listed by IDs. See also TracNavigation.	login, logout, prefs, help, about
never_obfuscate_mailto	Never obfuscate mailto: links explicitly written in the wiki, even if show_email_addresses is false or the user doesn't have EMAIL_VIEW permission (since 0.11.6).	false
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)	DefaultPermissionPolicy, LegacyAttachmentPolicy
permission_store	Name of the component implementing IPermissionStore, which is used for managing user and group permissions.	DefaultPermissionStore
request_filters	Ordered list of filters to apply to all requests (since 0.10).	(no default)
resizable_textareas	Make <textarea> fields resizable. Requires JavaScript. (since 0.12)	true
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)	disabled
show_email_addresses	Show email addresses instead of usernames. If false, email addresses are obfuscated for users that don't have EMAIL_VIEW permission. (since 0.11)	false
show_ip_addresses	Show IP addresses for resource edits (e.g. wiki). Since 1.0.5 this option is deprecated and will be removed in 1.3.1. (since 0.11.3)	false
timeout	Timeout value for database connection, in seconds. Use '0' to specify no timeout. (Since 0.11)	20
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)	disabled
use_chunked_encoding	If enabled, send contents as chunked encoding in HTTP/1.1. Otherwise, send contents with Content-Length header after entire of the contents are rendered. (since 1.0.6)	false
use_xsendfile	When true, send a X-Sendfile header and no content when sending files from the filesystem, so that the web server handles the content. This requires a web server that knows how to handle such a header, like Apache with mod_xsendfile or lighttpd. (since 1.0)	false
wiki_toolbars	Add a simple toolbar on top of Wiki <textarea>s. (since 1.0.2)	true
xsendfile_header	The header to use if use_xsendfile is enabled. If Nginx is used, set X-Accel-Redirect. (since 1.0.6)	X-Sendfile

[wiki]

ignore_missing_pages	Enable/disable highlighting CamelCase links to missing pages (since 0.9).	false
max_size	Maximum allowed wiki page size in characters. (since 0.11.2)	262144
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).	false
safe_origins	List of URIs considered "safe cross-origin", that will be rendered as img element without crossorigin="anonymous" attribute or used in url() of inline style attribute even if [wiki] render_unsafe_content is false (since 1.0.15). To make any origins safe, specify "*" in the list.	data:
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)	cvs, file, ftp, git, irc, http, https, news, sftp, smb, ssh, svn, svn+ssh
split_page_names	Enable/disable splitting the WikiPageNames with space characters (since 0.10).	false

[components]

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

[ticket-custom]

In this section, you can define additional fields for tickets. See TracTicketsCustomFields for more details.

[ticket-workflow]

(since 0.11)

The workflow for tickets is controlled by plugins. By default, there's only a ConfigurableTicketWorkflow component in charge. That component allows the workflow to be configured via this section in the trac.ini file. See TracWorkflow for more details.

[milestone-groups]

(since 0.11)

As the workflow for tickets is now configurable, there can be many ticket states, and simply displaying closed tickets vs. all the others is maybe not appropriate in all cases. This section enables one to easily create groups of states that will be shown in different colors in the milestone progress bar.

Example configuration (the default only has closed and active):

closed = closed
# sequence number in the progress bar
closed.order = 0
# optional extra param for the query (two additional columns: created and modified and sort on created)
group=resolution,order=time,col=id,col=summary,col=owner,col=type,col=priority,col=component,col=severity,col=time,col=changetime
# indicates groups that count for overall completion 
closed.overall_completion = truepercentage

new = new
new.order = 1
new.css_class = new
new.label = new

# one catch-all group is allowed
active = *
active.order = 2
# CSS class for this interval
active.css_class = open
# Displayed label for this group
active.label = in progress

The definition consists in a comma-separated list of accepted status. Also, '*' means any status and could be used to associate all remaining states to one catch-all group.

The CSS class can be one of: new (yellow), open (no color) or closed (green). New styles can easily be added using the following selector: table.progress td.<class>

[svn:externals]

(since 0.11)

The TracBrowser for Subversion can interpret the svn:externals property of folders out of the box. However, if those externals are not using the http: or https: protocol, or if a link to a different repository browser such as another Trac or ​ViewVC is desired, then Trac needs to be able to map an external prefix to this other URL.

This mapping is done in the [svn:externals] section of the TracIni

Example:

[svn:externals]
1 = svn://server/repos1 http://trac/proj1/browser/$path?rev=$rev
2 = svn://server/repos2 http://trac/proj2/browser/$path?rev=$rev
3 = http://theirserver.org/svn/eng-soft       http://ourserver/viewvc/svn/$path/?pathrev=25914
4 = svn://anotherserver.com/tools_repository  http://ourserver/tracs/tools/browser/$path?rev=$rev

With the above, the svn://anotherserver.com/tools_repository/tags/1.1/tools external will be mapped to http://ourserver/tracs/tools/browser/tags/1.1/tools?rev= (and rev will be set to the appropriate revision number if the external additionally specifies a revision, see the ​SVN Book on externals for more details).

Note that the number used as a key in the above section is purely used as a place holder, as the URLs themselves can't be used as a key due to various limitations in the configuration file parser.

Finally, the relative URLs introduced in ​Subversion 1.5 are not yet supported.

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See also: TracGuide, TracAdmin, TracEnvironment