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From: Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute  from userdir
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:06:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <905315640912272006o6a8fecddiebb66cc243593fad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091227211557.GC609@spearce.org>

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Smart-http may be an attactive and easy way for people to setup git
>> hosting on shared servers whose primary web server configuration they
>> do not control.  To facilite this, provide an example of how it may be
>> done.
> ...
>> +       \~/public_html/cgi-bin/.htaccess:
>> ++
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------
>> +SetHandler cgi-script
>> +Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>> +SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/$username/devel
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> At this point, isn't this just easier?
>
>  mkdir ~/public_html/git
>  vi ~/public_html/git/.htaccess
>
>  SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/$username/devel
>  ScriptAlias / /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/

Yes, that would be perfect.  But ScriptAlias is only valid in the
"server config" or "virtual host" contexts which is why the
symlink/copy executable convolutions might be needed.  Can you see a
simpler way around it?

Thanks,
Tarmigan

      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-28  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-26 17:07 [PATCH] Smart-http documentation: add example of how to execute from userdir Tarmigan Casebolt
2009-12-27  3:19 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-28  4:18   ` Tarmigan
2009-12-28  4:46     ` [PATCH v2] " Tarmigan Casebolt
2009-12-31  2:18       ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-01-02 21:18         ` [PATCH v3] " Tarmigan Casebolt
2010-01-03  2:11           ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-01-03  8:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-04 14:06             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-01-05  7:59               ` Tarmigan
2010-01-05  7:59                 ` [PATCH v4] " Tarmigan Casebolt
2010-01-05  8:23                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-27 21:15 ` [PATCH] " Shawn O. Pearce
2009-12-28  4:06   ` Tarmigan [this message]

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