From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mircea Bardac Subject: gitweb on shared hosting Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:53:08 +0300 Message-ID: <200706021953.09942.dev.list@mircea.bardac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 03 07:21:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuiWO-0008Tw-U5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:20:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754549AbXFCFUn (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:20:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754586AbXFCFUn (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:20:43 -0400 Received: from bravo.securenet-server.net ([207.210.84.244]:45516 "EHLO bravo.securenet-server.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754549AbXFCFUm (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:20:42 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 44785 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:20:42 EDT Received: from [86.121.184.202] (helo=mircea.home.bardac.net) by bravo.securenet-server.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HuWre-0004qP-J6 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:54:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Content-Disposition: inline X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: bmi@bardac.net X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bravo.securenet-server.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mircea.bardac.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi everybody, I don't know if this is possible or not, but I'm trying with no results. Is it possible to install gitweb on a shared hosting system, with no root access. Reading the INSTALL document reveals only information for configuration on build-time/install as root. I expected it to be installable just as any other web application: * get gitweb.cgi and related files + place them on the webserver * modify a config file (gitweb.cgi) to update the paths + gitweb options * (eventually) adjust server configuration for CGI in the wanted dir DONE. Also, having configuration information spread across several files (README/INSTALL/gitweb.cgi) doesn't help much. It is also very strange to have README/"How to configure gitweb for your local system" saying "You can specify the following configuration variables when buiding GIT". That means I have to rebuild GIT (actually, only gitweb/gitweb.cgi) to configure gitweb => I need to download the sources by hand instead of using the already installed gitweb on my system (the one which came with the git package). Is there any strong reason to have configuration at build-time at all? It would be a lot easier IMO to have it *just* by config files. I'm saying this because most of the install process is manual anyway (copying/moving files). Many thanks, Mircea -- http://mircea.bardac.net