Merge branch 'gf/maint-sh-setup-nongit-ok' into maint

[git.git] / gitweb / README

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index e34ee793ef51584344f8c808454b9ead0c3348c6..ad6a04c464075c31afe3c67222f0bdeabc76f569 100644 (file)
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    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,
+   <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 "/".
  * $home_link
    Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    repositories from launching cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.  Set this
    to true if you don't trust the content of your repositories. The default
    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.
+   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.
 
 
 Projects list file format
@@ -307,12 +312,16 @@ If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
 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>
@@ -338,6 +347,63 @@ something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
   $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