Re: Gitweb: Scan dir for repos & show these other specified repos

> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 11:55 -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > "Mike.lifeguard" <mike.lifeguard@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to have gitweb show all repositories in /path/to/wherever
> > > and also show some other repositories at particular locations like
> > > /home/user/git/repo1 and /home/user2/git/repo2 ? Or better yet, scan
> > > multiple dirs? Currently I can only see how to do one or the other
> > > within a single gitweb installation. I suppose I could run two of them...

> > P.S. It probably be a good idea to have something like mod_userdir,
> > but gitweb currently doesn't support something like that.
> 
> I had the same problematic some times ago. I wanted to have several
> project's roots folder for gitweb (one for each unix user of the
> server).
> 
> You can find the discussion here :
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/132926/
> http://marc.info/?t=125827961600002&r=1&w=2
> 
> Here the configuration I used :
> 
> /etc/gitweb.conf :
> 
> $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/var/gitweb";
> 
> /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourvirtualhost :
> 
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
> RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
> [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]
> 
> I.E. :
> 
> http://yourvirtualhost/ will have /var/gitweb as proeject root
> http://yourvirtualhost/~<user>/ will have /home/<users>/gitweb as
> proeject root
> 
> You can modify the rewrite rule to match what you want to do.