Trac as a windows service

[Jamie]

Hi all, 

Does anyone have experience with running trac as a windows service?

I've tried various methods including the python script provided in trac hacks, .bat files etc.

The issue I hit is that it starts trac ok, but stopping it stops the service but tracd keeps running in the background thus trac doesn't stop. 

Any thoughts on how to fix this or working examples would be appreciated. Just need a way to ensure trac starts and stops as a service rather than just using cmd. Stand alone server btw.

[Dan]

I used to use Apache under Windows, but it's difficult to get everything needed for my configurations, and I've since turned to either WSL or full Linux (via Hyper-V).  Using WSL probably isn't a good idea, but I used Windows Task Scheduler to start it at bootup.

I know of people who have used non-sucking service manager to turn general applications into services, but I don't have specific experience with it myself.  I think there are other apps that do something similar.

Good Luck

[jiho lee]

Hello,

You might want to check out these two articles.

• https://thepythoncorner.com/posts/2018-08-01-how-to-create-a-windows-service-in-python/
• https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/Gunicorn

The first article explains how to register your Python program with Windows Services.

The second document describes how to get Trac to work with Gunicorn.

Instead of using the trac -d command to run trac, I think it should work with Gunicorn.

Give it a try and good luck.

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[Jamie]

Thanks for the responses, much appreciated. However I'm only using trac standalone server and nothing else. Dan unfortunately NSSM is no longer maintained.

Jiho thanks for the python link - I do have the script and it works to start the service the issue I have is with getting the service to stop while using tracd.

[jiho lee]

We recommend creating code to run using the waitress API instead of tracd.

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[Jun Omae]

I do not recommend using tracd.exe as a Windows service, however you could use IIS with 

HttpPlatformHandler to serve Trac.

See 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/configure-web-apps-for-iis-windows

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[Jamie]

Ah ok, Thank you. I'll look into that.

[jiho lee]

If you are not using IIS, you will need to write python code to replace tracd.

I've included documentation to help you with this in the previous link.

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[Jun Omae]

> If you are not using IIS, you will need to write python code to replace tracd.

No need to write any Python code.

Example for web.config to serve http://localhost/trac
====
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="httpPlatformHandler" path="*" verb="*"
modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<httpPlatform
processPath="<your-venv>\Scripts\tracd.exe"
arguments="-s --port=%HTTP_PLATFORM_PORT%
--basic-auth=*,<your-htpasswd-file>,Trac --base-path=/trac
<your-tracenv>"
stdoutLogEnabled="false"
startupTimeLimit="60"
processesPerApplication="4"
>
<environmentVariables>
</environmentVariables>
</httpPlatform>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
====

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