Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir

[Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 21:15, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr> writes:
>
>> +If you want gitweb to act a bit like UserDir mod in apache, knowing, http://<host>/~<user>
>> +will list all git repos of <user> located in a special directory in his home (/home/<user>/gitweb/),
>> +do the following steps :
>> +
>> +Add this to the VirtualHost section of your apache configuration file :
>> +
>> +   RewriteRule ^/~([^\/]+)/?$  /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]
>> +
>> +Modify your gitweb.conf file, located at /etc/gitweb.conf in this example, with :
>> +
>> +   $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/path/to/the/defaul/project/root";
>> +
>> +Thus, each user with a gitweb folder in his home will be able to browse it with gitweb.
>> +/!\ The gitweb folder and user's home folder must be readable by the webserver user.
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to somehow make this work well together with
> the --user-path feature of git-daemon?
>
> Perhaps the recommended name given in the example shouldn't be ~/gitweb,
> but more like ~/public_git, as this is like ~/public_html but for git
> repositories.  Then the end users will browse

As I said, it's configuration :)

>
>        http://my.site/~gitster/public_git/git.git
>

would be http://my.site/~gitster/git.git

> and gitweb can be told to show
>
>        clone URL: git://my.site/~gitster/public_git/git.git

and git://my.site/~gitster/git.git

if --user-path of git daemon set to public_git

> on the page.  If the site administrator runs git-daemon with --user-path
> set to public_git, everything will work seamlessly, no?
>

Yes :)