Re: Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris machine?

From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2009, 17:34 UTC
Message-ID: <32C5F26D-7498-440C-8BF4-97AF137EF78F@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A27F7E6.8060405@xnet.com>

On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:35 PM, stuart wrote:

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> Hi...
>
> Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris  
> machine?
>
> I think this should be a simple question to answer.  I have looked  
> in the archives - but most, if not all, who post are setting up GIT  
> servers  using administration privileges.  I have a shell account on  
> a Solaris box where I can create web pages and trigger the execution  
> of scripts from those pages...but no administration right.  So, I  
> started down the path of privately installing software.  However, it  
> became apparent that I need git listing on this port and running  
> that daemon...both of which are almost impossible with out  
> administration rights.

The default port of the git daemon is 9418. Unix systems usually don't require admin privileges to bind to port >1024. Maybe there's a firewall between you and the solaris box preventing you from connecting to such non-standard port? If you are sure there is no such thing, then simply fire up git-daemon and try to connect to it:

(assuming /path/to/repo.git is the git repository on the server) server$ git-daemon --export-all --verbose --base-path=/path/to/ /path/ to/ client$ git ls-remote git://<server>/repo.git

If the connection was successful, then stop git-daemon, add '--detach' to its command line and start it again. It will put itself into the background, so you can log off the server and git-daemon will keep runnig. One downside is that it will not be automatically restarted when it crashes, or when the server is restarted.

> So, is there a way to get some basic GIT functionality through  
> serving up web pages and executing CGI scripts.  Is there somewhere  
> I can read up on this type of server installation?

Git can be used over dumb http protocol. Fetching through http is fairly easy, simply put the git repo into a directory where the web server has read rights. Pushing through http will likely require you to edit the http server settings. Also, git:// protocol is almost always preferable over http://.

tom