Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir

From: Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
Date: Nov 18, 2009, 00:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7fce93be0911171616l4f41acd4v2a42d5849a139d29@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B032AC8.4@eaglescrag.net>

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> For starters I think overriding the /~<user> (specifically the ~ here) is
> going to be a bad idea no matter what you do and gives the wrong impression
> about what / how the request is being responded to.  You might want to try
> and pick a different delimiter or re-work the rule so that you could have
> something like:
>
>        http://git.kernel.org/<gitweb urls>
>        http://git.kernel.org/user/<gitweb urls>
>
> Your also, likely, going to need to take into account things like index.cgi
> and gitweb.cgi in the url as things like:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez-gnome.git;a=summary
> http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=bluetooth/bluez-gnome.git;a=summary
>

<VirtualHost git.abstraction.fr:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@abstraction.fr
        ServerName git.abstraction.fr:80
        DocumentRoot /var/www/sylvain/git.abstraction.fr/html

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel debug

        CustomLog /var/www/sylvain/git.abstraction.fr/log/access.log combined
        ErrorLog /var/www/sylvain/git.abstraction.fr/log/error.log
        ServerSignature On

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteLog /var/www/sylvain/git.abstraction.fr/log/rewrite.log
        RewriteLogLevel 3
        RewriteRule ^/$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi     [QSA,L,PT]
        RewriteRule ^/gitweb.cgi$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi     [QSA,L,PT]
        RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)/?$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
        RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)/gitweb.cgi$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
        RewriteRule ^/users/([^\/]+)/?$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
        RewriteRule ^/users/([^\/]+)/gitweb.cgi$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        Alias /gitweb /usr/share/gitweb/
        <Directory "/usr/share/gitweb/">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

You can test here :

http://git.abstraction.fr/ http://git.abstraction.fr/gitweb.cgi http://git.abstraction.fr/~sylvain/ http://git.abstraction.fr/~sylvain/gitweb.cgi http://git.abstraction.fr/users/sylvain/ http://git.abstraction.fr/users/sylvain/gitweb.cgi

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