Re: [PATCH] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute from userdir

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 27, 2009, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20091227211557.GC609@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1261847255-13970-1-git-send-email-tarmigan+git@gmail.com>

Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> wrote:

> Smart-http may be an attactive and easy way for people to setup git
> hosting on shared servers whose primary web server configuration they
> do not control.  To facilite this, provide an example of how it may be
> done.

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> +       \~/public_html/cgi-bin/.htaccess:
> ++
> +----------------------------------------------------------------
> +SetHandler cgi-script
> +Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
> +SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/$username/devel
> +----------------------------------------------------------------

At this point, isn't this just easier?

  mkdir ~/public_html/git
  vi ~/public_html/git/.htaccess

  SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/$username/devel
  ScriptAlias / /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/

No need to mess around with SymlinksIfOwnerMatch and all of that fun. If you have .htaccess override allows, you should be able to setup a ScriptAlias without needing to use a cgi-bin directory.

-- 
Shawn.