Re: [PATCH v3] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute from userdir

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 4, 2010, 14:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20100104140616.GB22872@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzl4v1t91.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > cc:  Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
> > cc: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> > Editing-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
> 
> I still see Cc: here; are people named above (and others commented on
> earlier versions) happy with this round?

I don't get why Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is needed here.

If we are linking to the root installed git-http-backend Apache will actually reject the link, because the link owner is likely to be $USER while the target is owned by root.

So I really can't ACK this, the instructions don't jive with my understanding of the Apache configuration.

-- 
Shawn.