[PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs.

[PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs.

[Martin Waitz]

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 <tali@admingilde.org>
---
I've been running such a configuration on git.admingilde.org for quite
some time now, it's time to document it:

 gitweb/README |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README
index 27c6dac..61c7ab5 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 configurat
    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:
+
+<VirtualHost www:80>
+    ServerName git.domain.org
+    DocumentRoot /pub/git
+    RewriteEngine on
+    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
+</VirtualHost>
+
+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 <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
 
-- 
1.4.2.gb8b6b

-- 
Martin Waitz

Re: [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs.

[Alan Chandler]

Martin Waitz writes: 

> Add a small apache configuration which shows how to use apache
> to put gitweb and GIT repositories at the same URL. 
> 
 

It might be helpful to include 

SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf 

in that little apache snippet, to show how specify a config file for gitweb. 

 

 --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
(via webmail - normally means I am not at my computer)

Re: [PATCH] gitweb: document webserver configuration for common gitweb/repo URLs.

[Junio C Hamano]

"Alan Chandler" <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> Martin Waitz writes:
>
>> Add a small apache configuration which shows how to use apache
>> to put gitweb and GIT repositories at the same URL.
>
> It might be helpful to include
>
> SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
>
> in that little apache snippet, to show how specify a config file for
> gitweb.

I agree.  Please make it so by sending in a one-liner patch with
sign-off so that we can get attribution right without minimum
fuss.