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diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL index 4964a679b3..6d45406797 100644 --- a/gitweb/INSTALL +++ b/gitweb/INSTALL @@ -25,11 +25,25 @@ The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run scripts). +Requirements +------------ + + - Core git tools + - Perl + - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename. + - web server + +The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features + - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support + - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script + - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view + - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds + + Build time configuration ------------------------ -See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" in README -file for gitweb (in gitweb/README). +See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" section below. - There are many configuration variables which affect building of gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main @@ -73,6 +87,127 @@ file for gitweb (in gitweb/README). substitute gitweb.min.js and gitweb.min.css for all uses of gitweb.js and gitweb.css in the help files. + +How to configure gitweb for your local system +--------------------------------------------- + +You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: + + * GIT_BINDIR + Points where to find the git executable. You should set it up to + the place where the git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you + don't install git from sources together with gitweb. [Default: $(bindir)] + * GITWEB_SITENAME + Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name + (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default] + * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT + The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set + correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display. See also + "Gitweb repositories" in the INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git] + * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH + The filesystem traversing limit for getting the project list; the number + is taken as depth relative to the projectroot. It is used when + GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used). + This is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting + search depth. [Default: 2007] + * GITWEB_LIST + Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root + if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects + (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list + using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate + such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root + directory for projects] + * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK + Show repository only if this file exists (in repository). Only + effective if this variable evaluates to true. [No default / Not set] + * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT + Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page. + This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is + available and not only if it is shown. If GITWEB_LIST points to + file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be + available for gitweb. [No default] + * GITWEB_HOMETEXT + Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project + overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists. Relative to + gitweb.cgi script. [Default: indextext.html] + * GITWEB_SITE_HTML_HEAD_STRING + html snippet to include in the <head> section of each page. [No default] + * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER + Filename of html text to include at top of each page. Relative to + gitweb.cgi script. [No default] + * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER + Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page. Relative to + gitweb.cgi script. [No default] + * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR + String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link + (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list). Used as first + part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>. + [Default: projects] + * GITWEB_SITENAME + Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles. Set it + to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If not set + (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if + SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running + gitweb as standalone script). [No default] + * GITWEB_BASE_URL + Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full + URL is "$git_base_url/$project". Shown on projects summary page. + Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this + takes precedence over URLs composed from base URL and a project name. + Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for + git:// protocol access, another for http:// access) from the gitweb + config file. [No default] + * GITWEB_CSS + Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server + (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to the + base URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from + the gitweb config file. [Default: static/gitweb.css (or + static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier + is used)] + * GITWEB_JS + Points to the location where you put gitweb.js on your web server + (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb). + Relative to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/gitweb.js (or + static/gitweb.min.js if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript + minifier is used)] + * CSSMIN, JSMIN + Invocation of a CSS minifier or a JavaScript minifier, respectively, + working as a filter (source on standard input, minified result on + standard output). If set, it is used to generate a minified version of + 'static/gitweb.css' or 'static/gitweb.js', respectively. *Note* that + minified files would have *.min.css and *.min.js extension, which is + important if you also set GITWEB_CSS and/or GITWEB_JS. [No default] + * GITWEB_LOGO + Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server + (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right + corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed). Relative + to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/git-logo.png] + * GITWEB_FAVICON + Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server + (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type; + web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them + in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks). Relative + to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/git-favicon.png] + * GITWEB_CONFIG + This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any + of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime + gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their + full list and description. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG + is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the + environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified + when gitweb.cgi was created. [Default: gitweb_config.perl] + * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM + This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG + does not exist. If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set + when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment + variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was + created. [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf] + * HIGHLIGHT_BIN + Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from + http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output). + Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH. + [Default: highlight] + Build example ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -96,9 +231,9 @@ Gitweb config file ------------------ See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file -for gitweb (in gitweb/README). +for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage. -- You can configure gitweb further using the gitweb configuration file; +- You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file; by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as gitweb.cgi script. You can control the default place for the config file using the GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it @@ -108,6 +243,17 @@ for gitweb (in gitweb/README). GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it through the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable. + Note that if per-instance configuration file exists, then system-wide + configuration is _not used at all_. This is quite untypical and suprising + behavior. On the other hand changing current behavior would break backwards + compatibility and can lead to unexpected changes in gitweb behavior. + Therefore gitweb also looks for common system-wide configuration file, + normally /etc/gitweb-common.conf (set during build time using build time + configuration variable GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON, set it at runtime using + environment variable with the same name). Settings from per-instance or + system-wide configuration file override those from common system-wide + configuration file. + - The gitweb config file is a 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. @@ -143,112 +289,19 @@ adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG: Gitweb repositories ------------------- -- By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and - available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by - scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories (for object - databases to be more exact). - - You can provide a pre-generated list of [visible] repositories, - together with information about their owners (the project ownership - defaults to the owner of the repository directory otherwise), by setting - the GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or the $projects_list - variable in the gitweb config file) to point to a plain file. - - Each line of the projects list file should consist of the url-encoded path - to the project repository database (relative to projectroot), followed - by the url-encoded project owner on the same line (separated by a space). - Spaces in both project path and project owner have to be encoded as either - '%20' or '+'. - - Other characters that have to be url-encoded, i.e. replaced by '%' - followed by two-digit character number in octal, are: other whitespace - characters (because they are field separator in a record), plus sign '+' - (because it can be used as replacement for spaces), and percent sign '%' - (which is used for encoding / escaping). - - You can generate the projects list index file using the project_index - action (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb. - -- By default, even if a project is not visible on projects list page, you - can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting a gitweb URL. You can set the - GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or the $strict_export - variable in the gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of - repositories also shown on the overview page. - -- Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow - viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via the - GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or the $export_ok - variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb - shows repositories only if this file exists in its object database - (if directory has the magic file named $export_ok). - -- Finally, it is possible to specify an arbitrary perl subroutine that - will be called for each project to determine if it can be exported. - The subroutine receives an absolute path to the project as its only - parameter. - - For example, if you use mod_perl to run the script, and have dumb - http protocol authentication configured for your repositories, you - can use the following hook to allow access only if the user is - authorized to read the files: - - $export_auth_hook = sub { - use Apache2::SubRequest (); - use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(HTTP_OK); - my $path = "$_[0]/HEAD"; - my $r = Apache2::RequestUtil->request; - my $sub = $r->lookup_file($path); - return $sub->filename eq $path - && $sub->status == Apache2::Const::HTTP_OK; - }; - - -Generating projects list using gitweb -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -We assume that GITWEB_CONFIG has its default Makefile value, namely -gitweb_config.perl. Put the following in gitweb_make_index.perl file: - - $GITWEB_CONFIG = "gitweb_config.perl"; - do $GITWEB_CONFIG if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG; - - $projects_list = $projectroot; - -Then create the following script to get list of project in the format -suitable for GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or -$projects_list variable in gitweb config): - - #!/bin/sh - - export GITWEB_CONFIG="gitweb_make_index.perl" - export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1" - export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*" - export REQUEST_METHOD="GET" - export QUERY_STRING="a=project_index" - - perl -- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi - - -Requirements ------------- - - - Core git tools - - Perl - - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename. - - web server +By default gitweb shows all git repositories under single common repository +root on a local filesystem; see description of GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build-time +configuration variable above (and also of GITWEB_LIST). -The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features - - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support - - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script - - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view - - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds +More advanced usage, like limiting access or visibility of repositories and +managing multiple roots are described on gitweb manpage. Example web server configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb -(in gitweb/README). +See also "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections +in gitweb(1) manpage. - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script, |