From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gitweb: false base href sent when integrated via reverse proxy
 and path_info is active
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:12:15 -0600
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Jakub Narebski wrote:

> See also gitweb/README, the "Gitweb config file variables" section:
> 
>  * $base_url
>    Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
>    (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
>    needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
>    <base href="$base_url">.  Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
>                              ^^^^^^^
>    and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
> 
> The key word here is "usually" ;-)

Thanks, all.  That helps.

No time for it at the moment, but I'm taking this as evidence that
we need a gitweb.conf(5) manual page. :)  Would you be interested
in such a thing (as POD or asciidoc)?

Jonathan