Question about trac authentication

The problem is that when you add a Trac app to your site in our control panel, we generate the following web server config for your virtual host:

<Location /trac/login>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Trac - you"
    AuthUserFile /home/you/webapps/your_trac/.htpasswd
    Require valid-user
</Location>

You can't override the Location directive in .htaccess, so you're stuck using that authentication setup.

As a workaround, you can serve your Trac app as a regular static/CGI/PHP app. Just create a new 'symbolic link to static/cgi/php application' in the control panel, using the path to your existing Trac app in the "extra info" field (eg /home/you/webapps/your_trac), then edit your site to serve the symlink app instead of the Trac app.

You'll also need to create a .htaccess file in the root of your Trac directory with the following contents:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/trac.cgi/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^$ /cgi-bin/trac.cgi [L]

That way, our control panel will configure the app as a regular CGI app and will not generate any Trac-specific configuration, which means you're free to set up your authentication however you need it.

Hope that helps!