Re: Fail to push over HTTP with MySQL authentication (Apache2)

From: Davide Baldini <baldiniebaldini@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2012, 00:27 UTC
Message-ID: <50DF8A71.8040909@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121229210128.GB21058@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 12/29/12 22:01, Jeff King wrote:

> However, before trying to investigate that avenue, have you considered
> using git's smart-http backend instead of WebDAV? It's significantly
> more efficient. You can get details and example apache configuration
> from "git help http-backend".

Thank you for the suggestions, I've been able to have the setup running. I abandoned the horrible WebDAV in favour of Smart HTTP, and it's been quite straightforward to configure and run successfully.

There is some documentation on setting up DAV here:

> 
>   https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
> 
> but I have no idea if it is up-to-date or not.

No it's not up-to-date. It should refer to Apache versions <2.0 . Some of its config directives are inexistent in modern Apaches.

- Davide