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diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 19ae28ef9..9056d1e09 100644
--- a/gitweb/README
+++ b/gitweb/README
@@ -162,14 +162,12 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
$GITWEB_LIST during installation. If empty, $projectroot is used
to scan for repositories.
* $my_url, $my_uri
- URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; you might need to set those
- variables if you are using 'pathinfo' feature: see also below.
+ 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.
* $home_link
Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
- "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page; you might
- need to set it up to [base] gitweb URI if you use 'pathinfo' feature
- (alternative format of the URLs, with project name embedded directly
- in the path part of URL).
+ "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
* @stylesheets
List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to base URI of a page). You
might specify more than one stylesheet, for example use gitweb.css
@@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
* $fallback_encoding
Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters.
Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even
- 'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
+ 'utf-8'. Value must be valid encoding; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
page for a list. By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'.
* @diff_opts
Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default
@@ -329,6 +327,90 @@ something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
$home_link = "/";
+PATH_INFO usage
+-----------------------
+If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting
+
+ $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
+
+in your gitweb.conf, it is possible to set up your server so that it
+consumes and produces URLs in the form
+
+http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
+
+by using a configuration such as the following, that assumes that
+/var/www/gitweb is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, and that it
+contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files
+(stylesheet, favicon):
+
+
+ ServerAlias git.example.com
+
+ DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
+
+
+ Options ExecCGI
+ AddHandler cgi-script cgi
+
+ DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
+
+ RewriteEngine On
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+ RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
+
+
+
+The rewrite rule guarantees that existing static files will be properly
+served, whereas any other URL will be passed to gitweb as PATH_INFO
+parameter.
+
+Notice that in this case you don't need special settings for
+@stylesheets, $my_uri and $home_link, but you lose "dumb client" access
+to your project .git dirs. A possible workaround for the latter is the
+following: in your project root dir (e.g. /pub/git) have the projects
+named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
+/pub/git/project.git) and configure Apache as follows:
+
+
+ ServerAlias git.example.com
+
+ DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
+
+ AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
+
+ Options ExecCGI
+ AddHandler cgi-script cgi
+
+ DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
+
+ RewriteEngine On
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+ RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
+
+
+
+The additional AliasMatch makes it so that
+
+http://git.example.com/project.git
+
+will give raw access to the project's git dir (so that the project can
+be cloned), while
+
+http://git.example.com/project
+
+will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
+
+This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project
+has a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
+
+http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
+
+will fail with a 404 error.
+
+
+
Originally written by:
Kay Sievers