>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?


Have you tried using 'ps -aux|grep apache' to see what user started apache, in my system it's www-data... add that username to the group gopher.

Let me know if this helps.