Re: Installation instructions for gitweb?

From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Mar 23, 2007, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20070323161210.GI8017@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <etufpl$7en$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:52:53PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> I'm trying to get gitweb to serve my local repositories on the intranet
> here, but I am not successful in getting it to run.  I got as far as
> getting gitweb page, containing no projects but only "403 forbidden - No
> projects found." I tried setting the projects_list to a directory, a
> subdirectory, a file with the projects to be published, etc.

>From looking at the code this error can mean quite a few things:

- you set $projectroot incorrectly
- you set $projects_list incorrectly
- you set $export_ok to something != "" and didn't create
  the necessary files
- your repositories lack HEAD refs (don't know how this could happen,
  though)

More diagnosis is difficult without knowing your exact setup.

> Is there a guide on setting up gitweb for hare-brained people like me
> that don't know apache and don't know perl? In particular, the format of
> gitweb_conf.perl is not documented at all.

gitweb_conf.perl is just included as perl code. It is primarly useful for overriding the variables defined at the top of gitweb.cgi

Gruesse,

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