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Re: gitweb: false base href sent when integrated via reverse proxy and path_info is active

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 28, 2010, 18:12 UTC
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<20101128181215.GB19545@burratino>
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<201011281847.40233.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> See also gitweb/README, the "Gitweb config file variables" section:
> 
>  * $base_url
>    Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
>    (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
>    needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
>    <base href="$base_url">.  Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
>                              ^^^^^^^
>    and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
> 
> The key word here is "usually" ;-)
Thanks, all.  That helps.

No time for it at the moment, but I'm taking this as evidence that we need a gitweb.conf(5) manual page. :) Would you be interested in such a thing (as POD or asciidoc)?

Jonathan
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  1. Jonathan NiederNov 28, 2010
  2. Giuseppe BilottaNov 28, 2010
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  4. Jonathan NiederNov 28, 2010
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 30, 2010
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