From 128eead19821ba18e2912ebf30e5621d08735e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Waitz Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:03:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs. 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- gitweb/README | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 27c6dac14..61c7ab5d4 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 configuration variables when building GIT: 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 -- 2.30.2