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Re: problem with gitweb I don't understand

From
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Feb 6, 2006, 22:47 UTC
Message-ID
<200602062247.49690.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
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On Monday 06 February 2006 21:35, Alan Chandler wrote: ...>

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> But gitweb is not displaying it (see http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/git).
>
> However if I do http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/git/?p=txpg.git;a=summary
>
> the error message I get is "403 Forbidden - No such project."  whereas if I
> had used any random characters for the project I would have got "403
> Forbidden - No such directory"

Cracked it. I set repository permissions using the following (from the tutorial)

find repo.git -type d -print | xargs chmod ug+rwx,g+s
but directories need o+x as well so that the web server can read the refs
-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.
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