Re: cant get git to work over http

From: Anatoly Yakovenko <aeyakovenko@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2008, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID: <e26d18e40802191305y5f7b8fdfr3113c84612c53189@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47BB3691.9040809@freescale.com>

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> > but for the life of me i cant do this:
> >
> > $ git-clone http://aeyakovenko@localhost/var/www/localhost/htdocs/git/repo/ repo
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/aeyakovenko/projects/repo/.git/
> > Cannot get remote repository information.
> > Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
>
> Ponder the Doc Root for an HTTP request.  Remember that your httpd
> will likely be striping or rewriting that base directory path and
> so it won't be needed on your git http:// requests.
>
> Since my repository was outside of the basic Doc Root, and I wanted
> to present similar path names to both git: and http: protocols, I
> ended up rewriting some URL paths.  Also, if you have some form of
> virtual hosting going on, you might need to do a virtualization
> rewriting using --interpolated-path=pathtemplate.

so, basically i need to append a .git to the repository root? I am getting these http requests in the access log:

72.192.162.186 - aeyakovenko [19/Feb/2008:12:58:13 -0800] "GET /var/www/localhost/htdocs/git/repo/info/refs HTTP/1.1" 404 313

/var/www/localhost/htdocs/git/repo/info/refs doesn't exist, although this exists:

/var/www/localhost/htdocs/git/repo/.git/info/refs

So why doesn't the http protocol handle this? I can access http://localhost/git/repo/.git/info/refs through the browser without a problem. Is there any way to configure http protocol to just treat the repository the same way ssh and fs does?

Thanks, Anatoly