# bare init and gitweb

3 messages from 2008-06-17 to 2008-06-18. Participants: Martin Röhricht, Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14005

## Martin Röhricht, 2008-06-17 17:43

Subject: bare init and gitweb
Message-ID: <g38t49$lgr$3@ger.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/g38t49%24lgr%243%40ger.gmane.org

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Hi,

in order to use git for some projects via WebDAV I followed the 
instructions given in 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt

So what I basically did is to create a bare repository on the server:

-------------------------8<------------------------
$ mkdir ~/gitrepo.git
$ cd gitrepo.git
$ git --bare init
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
-------------------------8<------------------------

On the client's side I set up a (local) repository and push changes to 
the server:

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$ mkdir git-test
$ cd git-test
$ git init
$ touch README
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$ git-config remote.upload.url http://user@server/gitrepo/
$ git push upload master
Fetching remote heads...
   refs/
   refs/heads/
   refs/tags/
updating 'refs/heads/master'
   from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
   to   a0bb58fcd20c31d5575dbd6bdab55c9b28970429
     sending 3 objects
     done
-------------------------8<------------------------

Whenever I clone the server's repository somewhere else, I get the 
README file as expected. But when I use gitweb to show me the contents 
of the repository, all I get is this:

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projects /

403 Forbidden - No projects found
-------------------------8<------------------------

The projectroot variable within /etc/gitweb.conf points to my 
~/gitrepo.git, and whenever I use "git init", add and commit some files 
locally on the server I see the contents as expected by using gitweb, 
but never by using a repository created with "git --bare init".

Can someone help me out? I would really appreciate any help.

Martin

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## Jakub Narebski, 2008-06-17 20:27

Subject: Re: bare init and gitweb
Message-ID: <m3bq1zolh6.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3bq1zolh6.fsf%40localhost.localdomain
In-Reply-To: <g38t49$lgr$3@ger.gmane.org>

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Martin Röhricht <public@felicis.org> writes:

> in order to use git for some projects via WebDAV I followed the
> instructions given in
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt

[...]
> Whenever I clone the server's repository somewhere else, I get the
> README file as expected. But when I use gitweb to show me the contents
> of the repository, all I get is this:
> 
> -------------------------8<------------------------
> projects /
> 
> 403 Forbidden - No projects found
> -------------------------8<------------------------
> 
> The projectroot variable within /etc/gitweb.conf points to my
> ~/gitrepo.git, and whenever I use "git init", add and commit some
> files locally on the server I see the contents as expected by using
> gitweb, but never by using a repository created with "git --bare init".
> 
> Can someone help me out? I would really appreciate any help.

The $projectroot variable should point to the _common root_ of all
projects, in your case it could be one directory up your repository,
for example

  our $projectroot = /home/nick

not

  our $projectroot = /home/nick/gitrepo.git

(and '~' expansion would not work).

gitweb/README and gitweb/INSTALL should explain it in more detail.
The documentation you mentioned IIUC is for people who know how to
setup gitweb already
  http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob;f=gitweb/INSTALL;hb=HEAD
  http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob;f=gitweb/README;hb=HEAD

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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## Martin Röhricht, 2008-06-18 06:14

Subject: Re: bare init and gitweb
Message-ID: <4858A7CF.5060005@felicis.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4858A7CF.5060005%40felicis.org
In-Reply-To: <m3bq1zolh6.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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Hi Jakub,

On 06/17/2008 10:27 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Martin Röhricht <public@felicis.org> writes:
> 
>> in order to use git for some projects via WebDAV I followed the
>> instructions given in
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
> 
> [...]
>> Whenever I clone the server's repository somewhere else, I get the
>> README file as expected. But when I use gitweb to show me the contents
>> of the repository, all I get is this:
>> 
>> -------------------------8<------------------------
>> projects /
>> 
>> 403 Forbidden - No projects found
>> -------------------------8<------------------------
>> 
>> The projectroot variable within /etc/gitweb.conf points to my
>> ~/gitrepo.git, and whenever I use "git init", add and commit some
>> files locally on the server I see the contents as expected by using
>> gitweb, but never by using a repository created with "git --bare init".
>> 
>> Can someone help me out? I would really appreciate any help.
> 
> The $projectroot variable should point to the _common root_ of all
> projects, in your case it could be one directory up your repository,
> for example
> 
>   our $projectroot = /home/nick
> 
> not
> 
>   our $projectroot = /home/nick/gitrepo.git

thank you very much -- you solved my problem and it works like a charm. :-)

Have a nice day,
Martin

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