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From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
-How to configure gitweb for your local system
----------------------------------------------
-
-See also the "Build time configuration" section in the INSTALL
-file for gitweb (in gitweb/INSTALL).
-
-You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
- * GIT_BINDIR
- Points where to find the git executable. You should set it up to
- the place where the git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you
- don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)]
- * GITWEB_SITENAME
- Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name
- (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default]
- * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT
- The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set
- correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display. See also
- "Gitweb repositories" in the INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git]
- * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH
- The filesystem traversing limit for getting the project list; the number
- is taken as depth relative to the projectroot. It is used when
- GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used).
- Is is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting
- search depth. [Default: 2007]
- * GITWEB_LIST
- Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root
- if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects
- (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list
- using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate
- such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root
- directory for projects]
- * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK
- Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only
- effective if this variable evaluates to true. [No default / Not set]
- * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT
- Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page.
- This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is
- available and not only if it is shown. If GITWEB_LIST points to
- file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be
- available for gitweb. [No default]
- * GITWEB_HOMETEXT
- Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project
- overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists. Relative to
- gitweb.cgi script. [Default: indextext.html]
- * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER
- Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to
- gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
- * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER
- Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page. Relative to
- gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
- * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR
- String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link
- (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first
- part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>.
- [Default: projects]
- * GITWEB_SITENAME
- Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it
- to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set
- (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if
- SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running
- gitweb as standalone script). [No default]
- * GITWEB_BASE_URL
- Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full
- URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page.
- Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this
- takes precedence over URLs composed from base URL and a project name.
- Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for
- git:// protocol access, another for http:// access) from the gitweb
- config file. [No default]
- * GITWEB_CSS
- Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server
- (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to the
- base URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
- the gitweb config file. [Default: gitweb.css]
- * GITWEB_LOGO
- Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server
- (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right
- corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed). Relative
- to base URI of gitweb. [Default: git-logo.png]
- * GITWEB_FAVICON
- Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server
- (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type;
- web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them
- in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks). Relative
- to base URI of gitweb. [Default: git-favicon.png]
- * GITWEB_JS
- Points to the localtion where you put gitweb.js on your web server
- (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb).
- Relative to base URI of gitweb. [Default: gitweb.js (or gitweb.min.js
- if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript minifier is used)]
- * GITWEB_CONFIG
- This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any
- of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime
- gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their
- full list and description. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG
- is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the
- environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified
- when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: gitweb_config.perl]
- * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
- This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG
- does not exist. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set
- when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment
- variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was
- created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf]
-
-
Runtime gitweb configuration
----------------------------
* $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.
+ variables, now there should be no need to do it. See
+ $per_request_config if you need to set them still.
* $base_url
Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
(e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
<base href="$base_url">. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
+ See $per_request_config if you need to set it anyway.
* $home_link
Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
"breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
full description is available as 'title' attribute (usually shown on
mouseover). By default set to 25, which might be too small if you
use long project descriptions.
+ * $projects_list_group_categories
+ Enables the grouping of projects by category on the project list page.
+ The category of a project is determined by the $GIT_DIR/category
+ file or the 'gitweb.category' variable in its repository configuration.
+ Disabled by default.
+ * $project_list_default_category
+ Default category for projects for which none is specified. If set
+ to the empty string, such projects will remain uncategorized and
+ listed at the top, above categorized projects.
* @git_base_url_list
List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown
in project summary page. Full URL is "$git_base_url/$project".
is false.
* $maxload
Used to set the maximum load that we will still respond to gitweb queries.
- If server load exceed this value then return "503 Service Unavaliable" error.
+ If server load exceed this value then return "503 Service Unavailable" error.
Server load is taken to be 0 if gitweb cannot determine its value. Set it to
undefined value to turn it off. The default is 300.
-
+ * $highlight_bin
+ Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from
+ http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output).
+ Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH.
+ [Default: highlight]
+ * $per_request_config
+ If set to code reference, it would be run once per each request. You can
+ set parts of configuration that change per session, e.g. by setting it to
+ sub { $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb"; }
+ Otherwise it is treated as boolean value: if true gitweb would process
+ config file once per request, if false it would process config file only
+ once. Note: $my_url, $my_uri, and $base_url are overwritten with
+ their default values before every request, so if you want to change
+ them, be sure to set this variable to true or a code reference effecting
+ the desired changes. The default is true.
Projects list file format
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
from the template during repository creation. You can use the
gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
precedence.
+ * category (or gitweb.category)
+ Singe line category of a project, used to group projects if
+ $projects_list_group_categories is enabled. By default (file and
+ configuration variable absent), uncategorized projects are put in
+ the $project_list_default_category category. You can use the
+ gitweb.category repo configuration variable, but the file takes
+ precedence.
* cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url)
File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line.
Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued
repositories, you can configure apache like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
- ServerName git.example.org
- DocumentRoot /pub/git
- SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+ ServerName git.example.org
+ DocumentRoot /pub/git
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # turning on mod rewrite
RewriteEngine on
+
# make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
+
# make access for "dumb clients" work
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
</VirtualHost>
$home_link = "/";
+Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
+virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
+
+virtual host configuration :
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+ ServerName git.example.org
+ DocumentRoot /pub/git
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # turning on mod rewrite
+ RewriteEngine on
+
+ # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
+ RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
+
+ # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home
+ # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
+ RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+ # http://git.example.org/+<user>/
+ #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+ # http://git.example.org/user/<user>/
+ #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+ # defined list of project roots
+ RewriteRule ^/scm(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/pub/scm/,L,PT]
+ RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT]
+
+ # make access for "dumb clients" work
+ RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
+</VirtualHost>
+
+gitweb.conf configuration :
+
+$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
+
+These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (<user>) of the
+server will be able to browse through gitweb git repositories found in
+~/public_git/ with the following url : http://git.example.org/~<user>/
+
+If you do not want this feature on your server just remove the second rewrite rule.
+
+If you already use mod_userdir in your virtual host or you don't want to use
+the '~' as first character just comment or remove the second rewrite rule and
+uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
+
+Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will be accesible
+through http://git.example.org/scm/ and http://git.example.org/var/.
+You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like the
+third and the fourth.
+
+
PATH_INFO usage
-----------------------
If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting