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| author |  Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> | 2008-03-26 18:11:19 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-03-27 13:55:10 -0700 |
| commit | 17a8b25005bb09b03bee7ddac5412c7d29675eef (patch) | |
| tree | bba6a061f9066f80d04502261bb8ee95e478ddd3 /gitweb/INSTALL | |
| parent | Update draft release notes for 1.5.5 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-17a8b25005bb09b03bee7ddac5412c7d29675eef.tar.xz | |
gitweb: fallback to system-wide config file if default config does not exist
From a distribution point of view, configuration files for applications
should reside in /etc/. On the other hand it's convenient for multiple
instances of gitweb (e.g. virtual web servers on a single machine) to have
a per-instance configuration file, just as gitweb currently supports
through the file gitweb_config.perl next to the cgi.
To support both at runtime, this commit introduces GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM as
a system-wide configuration file which will be used as a fallback if the
config file sprecified throug GITWEB_CONFIG does not exist.
See also
http://bugs.debian.org/450592
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gitweb/INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | gitweb/INSTALL | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL index 9cd5b0a2b1..743f2d4442 100644 --- a/gitweb/INSTALL +++ b/gitweb/INSTALL @@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ for gitweb (in gitweb/README). 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. + using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable. If this file does not + exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally + /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the + GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it + through GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environmental variable. - Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end |