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, 17:37 UTC
Message-ID: <8F7A6F2A-D286-4DC2-B17A-FB016C31B1F2@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <32C5F26D-7498-440C-8BF4-97AF137EF78F@dbservice.com>

On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Tomas Carnecky wrote:

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> 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

... and run git-update-server-info in the git repository.

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> through http will likely require you to edit the http server  
> settings. Also, git:// protocol is almost always preferable over  
> http://.
>
> tom
>