# [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs. 3 messages from 2006-10-03 to 2006-10-03. Participants: Martin Waitz, Alan Chandler, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5791 ## Martin Waitz, 2006-10-03 08:03 Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs. Message-ID: <20061003080328.GI2871@admingilde.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061003080328.GI2871%40admingilde.org ``` Add a small apache configuration which shows how to use apache to put gitweb and GIT repositories at the same URL. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz --- I've been running such a configuration on git.admingilde.org for quite some time now, it's time to document it: gitweb/README | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 27c6dac..61c7ab5 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ GIT web Interface +================= The one working on: http://www.kernel.org/git/ @@ -6,7 +7,8 @@ The one working on: From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git. -How to configure gitweb for your local system: +How to configure gitweb for your local system +--------------------------------------------- You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: * GITWEB_SITENAME @@ -29,6 +31,28 @@ You can specify the following configurat environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was created. + +Webserver configuration +----------------------- + +If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http:// +repositories, you can configure apache like this: + + + ServerName git.domain.org + DocumentRoot /pub/git + RewriteEngine on + RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] + + +The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under +/pub/git and will serve them as http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git, +both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface. +If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all +then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path. + + + Originally written by: Kay Sievers -- 1.4.2.gb8b6b -- Martin Waitz ``` ## Alan Chandler, 2006-10-03 13:35 Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E1GUkQe-0007qU-AN%40home.chandlerfamily.org.uk In-Reply-To: <20061003080328.GI2871@admingilde.org> ``` Martin Waitz writes: > Add a small apache configuration which shows how to use apache > to put gitweb and GIT repositories at the same URL. > It might be helpful to include SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf in that little apache snippet, to show how specify a config file for gitweb. -- Alan Chandler alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk (via webmail - normally means I am not at my computer) ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2006-10-03 20:15 Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs. Message-ID: <7v1wppnok5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v1wppnok5.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: ``` "Alan Chandler" writes: > Martin Waitz writes: > >> Add a small apache configuration which shows how to use apache >> to put gitweb and GIT repositories at the same URL. > > It might be helpful to include > > SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf > > in that little apache snippet, to show how specify a config file for > gitweb. I agree. Please make it so by sending in a one-liner patch with sign-off so that we can get attribution right without minimum fuss. ```