{"thread":{"id":"8407","subject":"gitweb on shared hosting","startedAt":"2007-06-02T16:53:08Z","lastAt":"2007-06-03T18:36:01Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Mircea Bardac","Jakub Narebski"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"43849","messageId":"200706021953.09942.dev.list@mircea.bardac.net","threadId":"8407","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"gitweb on shared hosting","fromName":"Mircea Bardac","fromEmail":"dev.list@mircea.bardac.net","sentAt":"2007-06-02T16:53:08Z","receivedAt":"2007-06-02T16:53:08Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dev.list@mircea.bardac.net","avatar":null},"body":"Hi everybody,\n\nI don't know if this is possible or not, but I'm trying with no results.\n\nIs it possible to install gitweb on a shared hosting system, with no root \naccess. Reading the INSTALL document reveals only information for \nconfiguration on build-time/install as root.\n\nI expected it to be installable just as any other web application:\n* get gitweb.cgi and related files + place them on the webserver\n* modify a config file (gitweb.cgi) to update the paths + gitweb options\n* (eventually) adjust server configuration for CGI in the wanted dir\nDONE.\n\nAlso, having configuration information spread across several files \n(README/INSTALL/gitweb.cgi) doesn't help much.\n\nIt is also very strange to have README/\"How to configure gitweb for your local \nsystem\" saying \"You can specify the following configuration variables when \nbuiding GIT\". That means I have to rebuild GIT (actually, only \ngitweb/gitweb.cgi) to configure gitweb => I need to download the sources by \nhand instead of using the already installed gitweb on my system (the one \nwhich came with the git package).\n\nIs there any strong reason to have configuration at build-time at all? It \nwould be a lot easier IMO to have it *just* by config files. I'm saying this \nbecause most of the install process is manual anyway (copying/moving files).\n\n\nMany thanks,\nMircea\n\n-- \nhttp://mircea.bardac.net\n"},{"id":"43894","messageId":"f3v1cg$ft4$1@sea.gmane.org","threadId":"8407","inReplyTo":"200706021953.09942.dev.list@mircea.bardac.net","subject":"Re: gitweb on shared hosting","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-06-03T18:36:01Z","receivedAt":"2007-06-03T18:36:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Mircea Bardac wrote:\n\n> It is also very strange to have README/\"How to configure gitweb for your local \n> system\" saying \"You can specify the following configuration variables when \n> buiding GIT\". That means I have to rebuild GIT (actually, only \n> gitweb/gitweb.cgi) to configure gitweb => I need to download the sources by \n> hand instead of using the already installed gitweb on my system (the one \n> which came with the git package).\n\nFirst, it is when building gitweb/gitweb.cgi from gitweb/gitweb.perl, but\nin practice that is just filling configuration in a few places. See the\nplaces in the source, and later you can edit gitweb.cgi by hand.\n\n> Is there any strong reason to have configuration at build-time at all? It \n> would be a lot easier IMO to have it *just* by config files. I'm saying this \n> because most of the install process is manual anyway (copying/moving files).\n\nYou can override configuration using config file (with exception of name of\nconfig file), and put [almost] all configuration in config file.\n\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nWarsaw, Poland\nShadeHawk on #git\n"}]}