gitweb sets incorrect <base> header

Hi,

after a recent gitweb update to revision v1.6.3-rc3-12-gb79376c, the CGI now generates an incorrect <base> header. For example, the first "patch" on the page

  http://git.cryp.to/fastcgi/commitdiff/9ad9965b3fa293c458df14391f181f2f8f1197cd

erroneously refer to http://git.cryp.to/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#patch1, but that page doesn't exist. It appears that $base_url is not determined correctly.

Does anyone have a clue how that problem can be fixed?

Take care, Peter

On Tuesday 28 April 2009 14:41, Peter Simons wrote:

Both in Konqueror and Opera the patch link on that page refers to 

http://git.cryp.to/fastcgi/patch/9ad9965b3fa293c458df14391f181f2f8f1197cd

which is quite correct.

OTOH by looking at the source I see

<base href="http://git.cryp.to/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi" />

which doesn't seem correct at all. Do you have something in the gitweb config that may be hard-coding the base url?

Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> writes:

See gitweb/README:

 * $my_url, $my_uri
   Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
   in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
   variables, now there should be no need to do it.

Or you can set up $base_url in your gitweb configuration file (which is not mentioned in the gitweb/README, unfortunately).

Since 81d3fe9 (gitweb: fix wrong base URL when non-root DirectoryIndex) by Giuseppe Bilotta (I have CC-ed him) gitweb tries to set $base_url using $cgi->url(-base => 1) . $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'} if we use $path_info, and if both $my_url and $my_uri begin with $path_info.

I do not know CGI.pm well enough to think up a better solution, but
when $base_url was introduced I have posted email on git mailing list
about slight mismatch between what CGI.pm thinks as absolute URL and
the notion of absolute URL and absolute _paths_ in appropriate RFC,
see e.g. 
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107344/focus=107437
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107898/focus=108010

P.S. I didn't look at the site in question.

Hi Jakub,

 > Or you can set up $base_url in your gitweb configuration file (which
 > is not mentioned in the gitweb/README, unfortunately).

My gitweb.conf file is now configured as follows:

  $my_url = "http://git.cryp.to/";
  $my_uri = "/";
  $base_url = $my_uri;
  [...]

That seems to do the trick.

Thank you for your help, Peter