Re: gitweb install

Hi

Following dummyuser test case (me :-) might be usefull for improving docs. I have read the gitweb/README but in addition of that I find out that there is really little documentation about installing gitweb except the Makefile & git-instaweb.sh itself.

I would like to install gitweb to /var/run/html/gitweb directory and after reading the git/INSTALL & gitweb/README I came to conclusion that something like following could work

1) build git by changing some of the default gitweb configs as a user
    make prefix=/usr all doc GITWEB_SITENAME='gitweb test'
GITWEB_PROJECTROOT=/var/www/html/gitweb 
2) install git as a root after build
    make prefix=/usr install install-doc
3) add following to apache config
    <VirtualHost www:80>
        ServerName my-web-page
        DocumentRoot /gitweb
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
        SetEnv    GITWEB_CONFIG    /etc/gitweb.conf
    </VirtualHost>
4) move git repository (kernel for example) to /var/www/html/gitweb
5) restart apache
6) open browser to http://my-web-page/gitweb

Obviously something failed, as after step 2, I do not have either the /etc/gitweb.conf or gitweb scripts under directory /var/www/html/gitweb

regards
    Mika
   

lamikr wrote:

It should be enough to symlink it, given appropriate setup.

First, "make install" does not install the gitweb, as the place where it should be installed depends from configuration to configuration. By the way, you may compile ony gitweb using "make gitweb/gitweb.cgi" with appropriate params. So 2.1) step would be to manually copy gitweb.cgi and gitweb.css at least, perhaps also git-logo.png and git-favicon.png.

Second, you have to set up gitweb.cgi as a CGI script, or as legacy mod_perl script. I have for example in /var/www/cgi-bin symlink named gitweb to directory with gitweb.cgi, gitweb.css etc. and in /var/www/perl symplink to the same place.

The CGI configuration for Apache2 is (simplest case, I'd appreciate better solutions):

 LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
 <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
    Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 </Directory>

and can use for example http://localhost/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi

The mod_perl configuration for Apache2 is (again, I'd appreciate pointing out better solution):

 # mod_perl configuration, c.f. CGI version
 #
 Alias /perl "/var/www/perl"
 <Directory "/var/www/perl">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 </Directory>

If you don't have conf.d/perl.conf, then you have also to add to your apache config the line

 LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

Well, mod_perl configuration could also be in the conf.d/perl.conf file.

I can use http://localhost/perl/gitweb/gitweb.cgi for mod_perl driven gitweb.

HTH

Jakub Narebski wrote:

Are people usually using symlinks to their "real development" repositories? Or is it more common to have personal working repository for example in the own home directory and then the second "public copy" for http pages? And then configure the personal repository to push the changes somehow to public one? That would seem to be more secure even it rises the gap between real and published changes.

Ok, I did that.

Thanks, it seems that in Mandriva the preferred way it to put each of
these to own files under webapps.d directory.
So I created following /etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d/gitweb.conf by using
your script and cgi-script examples from httpd.conf as a help and got
things working.
   
# gitweb Apache configuration file
Alias /gitweb /var/www/gitweb
<Directory "/var/www/gitweb">
    AllowOverride All
    Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$
/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
    SetEnv    GITWEB_CONFIG    /etc/gitweb.conf
</Directory>

Is there btw, any examples from the /etc/gitweb.conf file?