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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.

Marc,

I use lighttpd on utsl.gen.nz, which is only a wee box, too.  I hacked
FastCGI support into gitweb.cgi, my changes are available at
git://utsl.gen.nz/gitweb (gitweb url at
http://utsl.gen.nz/gitweb/?p=gitweb).

I just set up the /git path to redirect to /git/ in the web server.

Sam.

> 
> 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.
> 
> So, I wonder if someone who has a working gitweb would be willing to
> test with Cherokee or some other resource conservative web server.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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