how to put existing git repo on web server

Hi,

I hope this is the right mailing list to ask this:

I have an existing git repo and I would like to make the repo available through my web server so that remote users can clone/fetch the repo. They don't need to commit.

So far, I've found some documentation basically telling me to create a bare repo which the web server can serve and then to put the existing repo into the bare one. However, all my attempts to somehow put the existing repo into the bare one have failed.

Why can't I simply copy the whole repo into a directory the web server can serve from and perhaps make some adjustments, or something similarly simple? How can I make it so that the repo can be cloned/fetched via the web server?