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| author |  Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> | 2009-10-30 17:47:35 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-11-04 17:58:15 -0800 |
| commit | 917adc036086f52b0277ff03d10b7044c9d9d0d2 (patch) | |
| tree | d89a6783fd237aa309bf84918575404286c6fa84 /Documentation | |
| parent | Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side (diff) | |
| download | tgif-917adc036086f52b0277ff03d10b7044c9d9d0d2.tar.xz | |
http-backend: add GIT_PROJECT_ROOT environment var
Add a new environment variable, GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, to override the
method of using PATH_TRANSLATED to find the git repository on disk.
This makes it much easier to configure the web server, especially when
the web server's DocumentRoot does not contain the git repositories,
which is the usual case.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-http-backend.txt | 39 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index 022a2433a8..99dbbfb966 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -41,29 +41,24 @@ http.receivepack:: URL TRANSLATION --------------- -'git-http-backend' relies on the invoking web server to perform -URL to path translation, and store the repository path into the -PATH_TRANSLATED environment variable. Most web servers will do -this translation automatically, resolving the suffix after the -CGI name relative to the server's document root. +To determine the location of the repository on disk, 'git-http-backend' +concatenates the environment variables PATH_INFO, which is set +automatically by the web server, and GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, which must be set +manually in the web server configuration. If GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is not +set, 'git-http-backend' reads PATH_TRANSLATED, which is also set +automatically by the web server. EXAMPLES -------- Apache 2.x:: - To serve all Git repositories contained within the '/git/' - subdirectory of the DocumentRoot, ensure mod_cgi and - mod_alias are enabled, and create a ScriptAlias to the CGI: + Ensure mod_cgi, mod_alias, and mod_env are enabled, set + GIT_PROJECT_ROOT (or DocumentRoot) appropriately, and + create a ScriptAlias to the CGI: + ---------------------------------------------------------------- -ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/git/ - -<Directory /usr/libexec/git-core> - Options None -</Directory> -<Files /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend> - Options ExecCGI -</Files> +SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git +ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- + To enable anonymous read access but authenticated write access, @@ -78,16 +73,16 @@ require authorization with a LocationMatch directive: </LocationMatch> ---------------------------------------------------------------- + -To require authentication for both reads and writes, use a Directory +To require authentication for both reads and writes, use a Location directive around the repository, or one of its parent directories: + ---------------------------------------------------------------- -<Directory /var/www/git/private> +<Location /git/private> AuthType Basic AuthName "Private Git Access" Require group committers ... -</Directory> +</Location> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Accelerated static Apache 2.x:: @@ -97,9 +92,9 @@ Accelerated static Apache 2.x:: file contents from the file system directly to the network: + ---------------------------------------------------------------- -DocumentRoot /var/www +SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git -ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/git/ +ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/ Alias /git_static/ /var/www/git/ RewriteEngine on @@ -114,7 +109,7 @@ ENVIRONMENT 'git-http-backend' relies upon the CGI environment variables set by the invoking web server, including: -* PATH_TRANSLATED +* PATH_INFO (if GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is set, otherwise PATH_TRANSLATED) * REMOTE_USER * REMOTE_ADDR * CONTENT_TYPE |