# Is there a way to install Trac on nginx competely?

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [November 3, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-trac-on-nginx-competely/119100 "2007-11-03T03:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ninh_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-trac-on-nginx-competely/119100/1 "2007-11-03T03:50:51Z")

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I have looked around and see there is a tutorial about installing Trac  
on nginx but still require Apache. Does anyone here install Trac on  
nginx? Is there a way to install Trac perfectly with only nginx?

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**Author:** ![Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ninh_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-trac-on-nginx-competely/119100/2 "2007-11-03T07:35:14Z")

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On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Jonathan D. wrote:

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You can also run trac as tracd with the embedded webserver and then  
use nginx proxy module to balance between a few tracd’s

Cheers-  
-Ezra

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**Author:** ![Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ninh_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-trac-on-nginx-competely/119100/3 "2007-11-03T07:26:28Z")

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Trac supports FastCGI, and has sample lighttpd configs. If lighttpd  
can do it, so should nginx:  
[http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracFastCgi](http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracFastCgi)

You’ll obviously have to roll your own configs. Also, you’ll need  
something (like spawn-fcgi, which I think is bundled with lighttpd) to  
start your FCGI processes.

So, it won’t be as easy as following instructions, but it’ll be more  
fun, right? 🙂

PS. Redmine ([http://www.redmine.org/](http://www.redmine.org/)) is a great alternative to Trac. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ninh\_Nguyen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ninh_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-install-trac-on-nginx-competely/119100/4 "2007-11-03T07:46:23Z")

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thank you all. I am using spawn-fcgi to start fcgi process. But I  
admit I have no idea about the config. Redmine looks good. Maybe I  
will try it first before I can install Trac on nginx.