From: Tomas Carnecky Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:37:55 GMT Subject: Re: Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris machine? 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: > > On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:35 PM, stuart wrote: > >> 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:///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. > through http will likely require you to edit the http server > settings. Also, git:// protocol is almost always preferable over > http://. > > tom >