>>I am trying to run TRAC but I get the following error message:
>>

EnvironmentError: The web server user requires read _and_ write permission
>>to the database /misc/projects/db/trac.db and the directory this file is located in.

>>
>>The thing is, that apache belongs to a group that is given rw permission to that directory tree and all the files. What am I missing?
>
>Are you sure that the database is even there?
>
>http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/changeset/139
>http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/file/trunk/trac/db.py?rev=240

Yes , it is there.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root gopher 129024 Dec 12 11:04 trac.db

[apache is in the gopher group]