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Subject: Re: gitweb testing with non-apache web server
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:56:03 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:54:03AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> I would like to use gitweb with the Cherokee web server because the
> host that I have on hand has very limited RAM, 32MiB.  Neither the
> version of gitweb available on Debian (v264) nor the latest in the git
> repo works.
> 
> I did some debugging on the latest repo version.  The lines
> 
>   our $project = ($cgi->param('p') || $ENV{'PATH_INFO'});
>   if (defined $project) {
>      ...
> 
> are being executed even though the url is
> 
>   http://server/git
> 
> I think that the problem is that Cherokee translates the request URL
> into
> 
>   http://server/git/
> 
> which means that the $ENV{'PATH_INFO'} is the string "/" insted of
> being undefined.
> 
> The error I'm seeing is that the request path is forbidden, but I
> suspect that this is some sort of misunderstanding between the web
> server and the script.

I am using Cherokee+GitWeb and the behaviour observed is that
http://server/git will return the default Cherokee index page, but
http://server/git/, with a slash at the end, works. 

-- 
Blu.