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From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Subject: Re: problem with gitweb I don't understand
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:47:49 +0000
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On Monday 06 February 2006 21:35, Alan Chandler wrote:
...>
> But gitweb is not displaying it (see http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/git).
>
> However if I do http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/git/?p=txpg.git;a=summary
>
> the error message I get is "403 Forbidden - No such project."  whereas if I
> had used any random characters for the project I would have got "403
> Forbidden - No such directory"

Cracked it.  I set repository permissions using the following (from the 
tutorial)

find repo.git -type d -print | xargs chmod ug+rwx,g+s

but directories need o+x as well so that the web server can read the refs


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.