Re: problems installing git docs and gitweb on centos 5.5
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- Dennis Huynh <dennis@brainstorm-digital.com>
- Date
- Oct 5, 2010, 20:28 UTC
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- <4CAB8A68.4080608@brainstorm-digital.com>
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- <4CA512C4.5090003@brainstorm-digital.com>
I have git and gitweb setup and working great. All's that is left now is to have it so my project root is symlinked to a network share. I already have the network share mount on my system as /Volumes/networkShare/projects. My $projectroot variable in /etc/gitweb.conf is set to '/var/www/html'. After this I create a symlink, 'ln -s /Volumes/networkShare/projects /var/www/html' which then creates a symlink in my html folder called projects. I edit my gitweb.conf file so the $projectroot is now set to /var/www/html/projects and gitweb fails to see the git projects. What gives? Is there any other way to do this? Thanks.
On 9/30/10 6:44 PM, Dennis Huynh wrote:
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> Its fine. I'm going with the EPEL repo to start and learn from. If > this can be upgraded in the near future that would be dandy. If not, > I should have a handle on maintaining a repository by then and be able > to build the latest and greatest myself. Because of my inexperience > with maintaining this type of technology, I didn't realize the > projectroot was not consistent throughout the documentation. Had I > known, I would've had an easier time, but doubt I'd have a working > server up by now. Not that I have a working server up right now, but > I'm getting closer than I was yesterday. If I have any questions I > will be sure to ask and when I understand more, hopefully I'll be able > to contribute better documentation myself as to where the original led > me astray. Thanks again for following up. I'm sure you'll hear from > me again if you don't mind. > > > On 9/30/10 6:35 PM, J.H. wrote: >> On 09/30/2010 07:22 AM, Dennis Huynh wrote: >>> Alright, I'm going with the Fedora EPEL repositories. But last I >>> checked the latest version available via that method was 1.5.x. Since >>> this is a server, I preferred to use the latest and greatest so to last >>> in the long run from any major patches or cover any major upgrades, but >>> if that's the version that's preferred, who am I to argue. One problem >>> I recall in yum'ing the install for git however was the man pages >>> weren't installed either. I could be wrong however. I'll keep you >>> guys >>> up to date. Wish me luck! Thanks for all your help and the timely >>> responses. >> The stuff in EPEL is a bit older, I should have words with whoever is >> maintaining those to see if we can get those upgraded. There really >> isn't any reason those should be lagging that much. >> >> This is however why I suggested just recompiling the rpms present on >> kernel.org, which would get you the latest and greatest and not, >> completely, push you into maintaining the packages on your own. >> >>> Also, is there how-tos you'd suggest I use in setting up the git/gitweb >>> combo with the yum install? I noticed yum installs files in different >>> locations then the source does. Thanks again! >> They install into different locations though the instructions should be >> relatively straight forward. >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/warthog9/gitweb.git;a=blob;f=gitweb/README;h=ad6a04c464075c31afe3c67222f0bdeabc76f569;hb=HEAD >> >> >> is the official documentation, but a quick glance at it shows that it >> doesn't stay consistent on where the the document root is. If you have >> problems give me a holler and I'll throw up how I have it configured at >> kernel.org on the kernel.org wiki as a reference point for people to a >> specific installation. >> >> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley >> >> >