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diff --git a/gitweb/INSTALL b/gitweb/INSTALL index 26967e201a..4964a679b3 100644 --- a/gitweb/INSTALL +++ b/gitweb/INSTALL @@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation ======================================= 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 +"make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files +(gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) +to their destination. For example if git was (or is) installed with +/usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do - $ make prefix=/usr gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself - # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root + $ make prefix=/usr gitweb ;# as yourself + # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb ;# as root Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write @@ -15,8 +16,9 @@ instead $ make configure ;# as yourself $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself - $ make gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself - # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root + $ make gitweb ;# as yourself + # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin \ + install-gitweb ;# as root The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run [executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI @@ -31,8 +33,7 @@ file for gitweb (in gitweb/README). - There are many configuration variables which affect building of gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main - (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb/gitweb.cgi - target. + (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb target. One of the most important is where to find the git wrapper binary. Gitweb tries to find the git wrapper at $(bindir)/git, so you have to set $bindir @@ -62,27 +63,33 @@ file for gitweb (in gitweb/README). a suggestion). - You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file, - its favicon and logo with the 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. + its JavaScript file, its favicon and logo with the GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_JS + GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO build configuration variables. By default + gitweb tries to find them in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script. + +- You can optionally generate minified versions of gitweb.js and gitweb.css + by defining the JSMIN and CSSMIN build configuration variables. By default + the non-minified versions will be used. NOTE: if you enable this option, + substitute gitweb.min.js and gitweb.min.css for all uses of gitweb.js and + gitweb.css in the help files. Build example ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 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 +- To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/, when git wrapper + is installed at /usr/local/bin/git, the repositories (projects) + we want to display are under /home/local/scm, and you do not use + minifiers, you can do make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \ - GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \ - GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \ - GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \ + GITWEB_JS="gitweb/static/gitweb.js" \ + GITWEB_CSS="gitweb/static/gitweb.css" \ + GITWEB_LOGO="gitweb/static/git-logo.png" \ + GITWEB_FAVICON="gitweb/static/git-favicon.png" \ bindir=/usr/local/bin \ - gitweb/gitweb.cgi + gitweb - cp -fv ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,css} \ - ~/git/gitweb/git-{favicon,logo}.png \ - /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/ + make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb Gitweb config file @@ -123,6 +130,15 @@ GITWEB_CONFIG file: $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz']; $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1; +If you allow overriding for the snapshot feature, you can specify which +snapshot formats are globally disabled. You can also add any command line +options you want (such as setting the compression level). For instance, +you can disable Zip compressed snapshots and set GZip to run at level 6 by +adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG: + + $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1; + $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6']; + Gitweb repositories ------------------- @@ -166,6 +182,27 @@ Gitweb repositories 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -200,6 +237,12 @@ Requirements - 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 + Example web server configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |