1 GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation
2 =======================================
4 First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using
5 "make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files
6 (gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png)
7 to their destination. For example if git was (or is) installed with
8 /usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do
10 $ make prefix=/usr gitweb ;# as yourself
11 # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb ;# as root
13 Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
14 set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write
15 instead
17 $ make configure ;# as yourself
18 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
19 $ make gitweb ;# as yourself
20 # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin \
21 install-gitweb ;# as root
23 The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run
24 [executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI
25 scripts).
28 Requirements
29 ------------
31 - Core git tools
32 - Perl
33 - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
34 - web server
36 The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features
37 - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support
38 - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script
39 - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view
40 - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds
43 Build time configuration
44 ------------------------
46 See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" section below.
48 - There are many configuration variables which affect building of
49 gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main
50 (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb target.
52 One of the most important is where to find the git wrapper binary. Gitweb
53 tries to find the git wrapper at $(bindir)/git, so you have to set $bindir
54 when building gitweb.cgi, or $prefix from which $bindir is derived. If
55 you build and install gitweb together with the rest of the git suite,
56 there should be no problems. Otherwise, if git was for example
57 installed from a binary package, you have to set $prefix (or $bindir)
58 accordingly.
60 - Another important issue is where are git repositories you want to make
61 available to gitweb. By default gitweb searches for repositories under
62 /pub/git; if you want to have projects somewhere else, like /home/git,
63 use GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build configuration variable.
65 By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
66 available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by
67 scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories. This can be
68 changed (configured) as described in "Gitweb repositories" section
69 below.
71 Note that gitweb deals directly with the object database, and does not
72 need a working directory; the name of the project is the name of its
73 repository object database, usually projectname.git for bare
74 repositories. If you want to provide gitweb access to non-bare (live)
75 repositories, you can make projectname.git a symbolic link under
76 projectroot linking to projectname/.git (but it is just
77 a suggestion).
79 - You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file,
80 its JavaScript file, its favicon and logo with the GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_JS
81 GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO build configuration variables. By default
82 gitweb tries to find them in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script.
84 - You can optionally generate minified versions of gitweb.js and gitweb.css
85 by defining the JSMIN and CSSMIN build configuration variables. By default
86 the non-minified versions will be used. NOTE: if you enable this option,
87 substitute gitweb.min.js and gitweb.min.css for all uses of gitweb.js and
88 gitweb.css in the help files.
91 How to configure gitweb for your local system
92 ---------------------------------------------
94 You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
96 * GIT_BINDIR
97 Points where to find the git executable. You should set it up to
98 the place where the git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you
99 don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)]
100 * GITWEB_SITENAME
101 Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name
102 (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default]
103 * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT
104 The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set
105 correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display. See also
106 "Gitweb repositories" in the INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git]
107 * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH
108 The filesystem traversing limit for getting the project list; the number
109 is taken as depth relative to the projectroot. It is used when
110 GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used).
111 This is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting
112 search depth. [Default: 2007]
113 * GITWEB_LIST
114 Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root
115 if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects
116 (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list
117 using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate
118 such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root
119 directory for projects]
120 * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK
121 Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only
122 effective if this variable evaluates to true. [No default / Not set]
123 * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT
124 Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page.
125 This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is
126 available and not only if it is shown. If GITWEB_LIST points to
127 file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be
128 available for gitweb. [No default]
129 * GITWEB_HOMETEXT
130 Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project
131 overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists. Relative to
132 gitweb.cgi script. [Default: indextext.html]
133 * GITWEB_SITE_HTML_HEAD_STRING
134 html snippet to include in the <head> section of each page. [No default]
135 * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER
136 Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to
137 gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
138 * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER
139 Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page. Relative to
140 gitweb.cgi script. [No default]
141 * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR
142 String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link
143 (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first
144 part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>.
145 [Default: projects]
146 * GITWEB_SITENAME
147 Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it
148 to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set
149 (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if
150 SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running
151 gitweb as standalone script). [No default]
152 * GITWEB_BASE_URL
153 Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full
154 URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page.
155 Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this
156 takes precedence over URLs composed from base URL and a project name.
157 Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for
158 git:// protocol access, another for http:// access) from the gitweb
159 config file. [No default]
160 * GITWEB_CSS
161 Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server
162 (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to the
163 base URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
164 the gitweb config file. [Default: static/gitweb.css (or
165 static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier
166 is used)]
167 * GITWEB_JS
168 Points to the location where you put gitweb.js on your web server
169 (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb).
170 Relative to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/gitweb.js (or
171 static/gitweb.min.js if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript
172 minifier is used)]
173 * CSSMIN, JSMIN
174 Invocation of a CSS minifier or a JavaScript minifier, respectively,
175 working as a filter (source on standard input, minified result on
176 standard output). If set, it is used to generate a minified version of
177 'static/gitweb.css' or 'static/gitweb.js', respectively. *Note* that
178 minified files would have *.min.css and *.min.js extension, which is
179 important if you also set GITWEB_CSS and/or GITWEB_JS. [No default]
180 * GITWEB_LOGO
181 Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server
182 (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right
183 corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed). Relative
184 to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/git-logo.png]
185 * GITWEB_FAVICON
186 Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server
187 (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type;
188 web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them
189 in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks). Relative
190 to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/git-favicon.png]
191 * GITWEB_CONFIG
192 This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any
193 of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime
194 gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their
195 full list and description. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG
196 is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the
197 environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified
198 when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: gitweb_config.perl]
199 * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
200 This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG
201 does not exist. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set
202 when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment
203 variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was
204 created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf]
205 * HIGHLIGHT_BIN
206 Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from
207 http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output).
208 Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH.
209 [Default: highlight]
211 Build example
212 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
214 - To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/, when git wrapper
215 is installed at /usr/local/bin/git, the repositories (projects)
216 we want to display are under /home/local/scm, and you do not use
217 minifiers, you can do
219 make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \
220 GITWEB_JS="gitweb/static/gitweb.js" \
221 GITWEB_CSS="gitweb/static/gitweb.css" \
222 GITWEB_LOGO="gitweb/static/git-logo.png" \
223 GITWEB_FAVICON="gitweb/static/git-favicon.png" \
224 bindir=/usr/local/bin \
225 gitweb
227 make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb
230 Gitweb config file
231 ------------------
233 See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file
234 for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
236 - You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file;
237 by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
238 gitweb.cgi script. You can control the default place for the config file
239 using the GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it
240 using the GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable. If this file does not
241 exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally
242 /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the
243 GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it
244 through the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable.
246 Note that if per-instance configuration file exists, then system-wide
247 configuration is _not used at all_. This is quite untypical and suprising
248 behavior. On the other hand changing current behavior would break backwards
249 compatibility and can lead to unexpected changes in gitweb behavior.
250 Therefore gitweb also looks for common system-wide configuration file,
251 normally /etc/gitweb-common.conf (set during build time using build time
252 configuration variable GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON, set it at runtime using
253 environment variable with the same name). Settings from per-instance or
254 system-wide configuration file override those from common system-wide
255 configuration file.
257 - The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables
258 using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
259 of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details.
261 See the top of gitweb.perl file for examples of customizable options.
263 Config file example
264 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
266 To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support, while allowing
267 individual projects to turn them off, put the following in your
268 GITWEB_CONFIG file:
270 $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
271 $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
273 $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
274 $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
276 $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz'];
277 $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1;
279 If you allow overriding for the snapshot feature, you can specify which
280 snapshot formats are globally disabled. You can also add any command line
281 options you want (such as setting the compression level). For instance,
282 you can disable Zip compressed snapshots and set GZip to run at level 6 by
283 adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG:
285 $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1;
286 $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6'];
289 Gitweb repositories
290 -------------------
292 By default gitweb shows all git repositories under single common repository
293 root on a local filesystem; see description of GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build-time
294 configuration variable above (and also of GITWEB_LIST).
296 More advanced usage, like limiting access or visibility of repositories and
297 managing multiple roots are described on gitweb manpage.
300 Example web server configuration
301 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
303 See also "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections
304 in gitweb(1) manpage.
307 - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
308 under /var/www/cgi-bin/
310 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
312 <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
313 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
314 AllowOverride None
315 Order allow,deny
316 Allow from all
317 </Directory>
319 - Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script,
320 under /var/www/perl/
322 Alias /perl "/var/www/perl"
324 <Directory "/var/www/perl">
325 SetHandler perl-script
326 PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
327 PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
328 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI
329 AllowOverride None
330 Order allow,deny
331 Allow from all
332 </Directory>