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gitweb: Add some installation notes in gitweb/INSTALL
Add some installation and configuration notes for gitweb in gitweb/INSTALL. Make use of filling gitweb configuration by Makefile. It does not cover (yet?) all the configuration variables and options. Some of contents duplicates information in gitweb/README file (it is referred from gitweb/INSTALL). Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation | ||
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First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using | ||
"make gitweb/gitweb.cgi", then copy appropriate files (gitweb.cgi, | ||
gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) to their destination. | ||
For example if git was (or is) installed with /usr prefix, you can do | ||
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$ make prefix=/usr gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself | ||
# cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root | ||
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Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to | ||
set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write | ||
instead | ||
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$ make configure ;# as yourself | ||
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself | ||
$ make gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself | ||
# cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root | ||
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The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run | ||
[executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI | ||
scripts). | ||
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Build time configuration | ||
------------------------ | ||
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See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" in README | ||
file for gitweb (in gitweb/README). | ||
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- There are many configuration variables which affects building of | ||
gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main | ||
(top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb/gitweb.cgi | ||
target. | ||
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One of most important is where to find git wrapper binary. Gitweb | ||
tries to find git wrapper at $(bindir)/git, so you have to set $bindir | ||
when building gitweb.cgi, or $prefix from which $bindir is derived. If | ||
you build and install gitweb together with the rest of git suite, | ||
there should be no problems. Otherwise, if git was for example | ||
installed from a binary package, you have to set $prefix (or $bindir) | ||
accordingly. | ||
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- Another important issue is where are git repositories you want to make | ||
available to gitweb. By default gitweb search for repositories under | ||
/pub/git; if you want to have projects somewhere else, like /home/git, | ||
use GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build configuration variable. | ||
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By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and | ||
available to gitweb. List of projects is generated by default by | ||
scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories. This can be | ||
changed (configured) as described in "Gitweb repositories" section | ||
below. | ||
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Note that gitweb deals directly with object database, and does not | ||
need working directory; the name of the project is the name of its | ||
repository object database, usually projectname.git for bare | ||
repositories. If you want to provide gitweb access to non-bare (live) | ||
repository, you can make projectname.git symbolic link under | ||
projectroot linking to projectname/.git (but it is just | ||
a suggestion). | ||
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- You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file, | ||
its favicon and logo with GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO | ||
build configuration variables. By default gitweb tries to find them | ||
in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script. | ||
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Build example | ||
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- To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/ when git wrapper | ||
is installed at /usr/local/bin/git and the repositories (projects) | ||
we want to display are under /home/local/scm, you can do | ||
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make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \ | ||
GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \ | ||
GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \ | ||
GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \ | ||
bindir=/usr/local/bin \ | ||
gitweb/gitweb.cgi | ||
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cp -fv ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,css} \ | ||
~/git/gitweb/git-{favicon,logo}.png \ | ||
/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/ | ||
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Gitweb config file | ||
------------------ | ||
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See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file | ||
for gitweb (in gitweb/README). | ||
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- You can configure gitweb further using gitweb configuration file; | ||
by default it is file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as | ||
gitweb.cgi script. You can control default place for config file | ||
using GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it | ||
using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable. | ||
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- Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables | ||
using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end | ||
of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details. | ||
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See the top of gitweb.perl file for examples of customizable options. | ||
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Gitweb repositories: | ||
-------------------- | ||
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- By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and | ||
available to gitweb. List of projects is generated by default by | ||
scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories (for object | ||
databases to be more exact). | ||
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You can provide pre-generated list of [visible] repositories, | ||
together with information about their owners (the project ownership | ||
is taken from owner of repository directory otherwise), by setting | ||
GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or $projects_list variable | ||
in gitweb config file) to point to a plain file. | ||
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Each line of projects list file should consist of url-encoded path | ||
to project repository database (relative to projectroot) separated | ||
by space from url-encoded project owner; spaces in both project path | ||
and project owner have to be encoded as either '%20' or '+'. | ||
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You can generate projects list index file using project_index action | ||
(the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb. | ||
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- By default even if project is not visible on projects list page, you | ||
can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting gitweb URL. You can set | ||
GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or $strict_export | ||
variable in gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of | ||
repositories also shown on the overview page. | ||
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- Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow | ||
viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via | ||
GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or $export_ok | ||
variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb | ||
show repository only if this file exists in its object database | ||
(if directory has the magic file $export_ok). | ||
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Requirements | ||
------------ | ||
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- Core git tools | ||
- Perl | ||
- Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename. | ||
- web server | ||
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Example web server configuration | ||
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See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb | ||
(in gitweb/README). | ||
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- Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script, | ||
under /var/www/cgi-bin/ | ||
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ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" | ||
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<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> | ||
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI | ||
AllowOverride None | ||
Order allow,deny | ||
Allow from all | ||
</Directory> | ||
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- Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script, | ||
under /var/www/perl/ | ||
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Alias /perl "/var/www/perl" | ||
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<Directory "/var/www/perl"> | ||
SetHandler perl-script | ||
PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry | ||
PerlOptions +ParseHeaders | ||
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI | ||
AllowOverride None | ||
Order allow,deny | ||
Allow from all | ||
</Directory> |