git/gitweb/README
Alan Chandler 604cb211a9 Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment
Signed-off-by: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-03 23:58:38 -07:00

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GIT web Interface
=================
The one working on:
http://www.kernel.org/git/
From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
How to configure gitweb for your local system
---------------------------------------------
You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
* GITWEB_SITENAME
Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the servers name.
* GITWEB_PROJECTROOT
The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb.
* GITWEB_LIST
points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root)
or to a file for explicit listing of projects.
* GITWEB_HOMETEXT
points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project
overview page.
* GITWEB_CSS
Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server.
* GITWEB_LOGO
Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server.
* GITWEB_CONFIG
This file will be loaded using 'require'. If the environment
$GITWEB_CONFIG is set when gitweb.cgi is executed the file in the
environment variable will be loaded instead of the file
specified when gitweb.cgi was created.
Webserver configuration
-----------------------
If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
repositories, you can configure apache like this:
<VirtualHost www:80>
ServerName git.domain.org
DocumentRoot /pub/git
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
</VirtualHost>
The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
/pub/git and will serve them as http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git,
both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface.
If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all
then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path.
Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use
the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a
configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will
override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or
gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on
which variables and what they mean.
Originally written by:
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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