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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
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).
- Is is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting
+ 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
@@ -80,18 +80,26 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
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: gitweb.css]
+ the gitweb config file. [Default: static/gitweb.css (or
+ static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier
+ is used)]
* 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: git-logo.png]
+ 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: git-favicon.png]
+ to base URI of gitweb. [Default: static/git-favicon.png]
+ * 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)]
* 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
@@ -106,6 +114,11 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
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]
Runtime gitweb configuration
@@ -164,13 +177,15 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
* $my_url, $my_uri
Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
- variables, now there should be no need to do it.
+ variables, now there should be no need to do it. See
+ $per_request_config if you need to set them still.
* $base_url
Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
(e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
- <base href="$base_url>. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
+ <base href="$base_url">. Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
+ See $per_request_config if you need to set it anyway.
* $home_link
Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
"breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
@@ -223,7 +238,26 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
repositories from launching cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Set this
to true if you don't trust the content of your repositories. The default
is false.
-
+ * $maxload
+ Used to set the maximum load that we will still respond to gitweb queries.
+ If server load exceed this value then return "503 Service Unavailable" error.
+ Server load is taken to be 0 if gitweb cannot determine its value. Set it to
+ undefined value to turn it off. The default is 300.
+ * $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]
+ * $per_request_config
+ If set to code reference, it would be run once per each request. You can
+ set parts of configuration that change per session, e.g. by setting it to
+ sub { $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb"; }
+ Otherwise it is treated as boolean value: if true gitweb would process
+ config file once per request, if false it would process config file only
+ once. Note: $my_url, $my_uri, and $base_url are overwritten with
+ their default values before every request, so if you want to change
+ them, be sure to set this variable to true or a code reference effecting
+ the desired changes. The default is true.
Projects list file format
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -302,12 +336,16 @@ If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
repositories, you can configure apache like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
- ServerName git.example.org
- DocumentRoot /pub/git
- SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+ ServerName git.example.org
+ DocumentRoot /pub/git
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # turning on mod rewrite
RewriteEngine on
+
# make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
+
# make access for "dumb clients" work
RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
</VirtualHost>
@@ -333,6 +371,63 @@ something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
$home_link = "/";
+Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
+virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
+
+virtual host configuration :
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+ ServerName git.example.org
+ DocumentRoot /pub/git
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # turning on mod rewrite
+ RewriteEngine on
+
+ # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
+ RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
+
+ # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home
+ # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
+ RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+ # http://git.example.org/+<user>/
+ #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+ # http://git.example.org/user/<user>/
+ #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+ # defined list of project roots
+ RewriteRule ^/scm(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/pub/scm/,L,PT]
+ RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT]
+
+ # make access for "dumb clients" work
+ RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
+</VirtualHost>
+
+gitweb.conf configuration :
+
+$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
+
+These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (<user>) of the
+server will be able to browse through gitweb git repositories found in
+~/public_git/ with the following url : http://git.example.org/~<user>/
+
+If you do not want this feature on your server just remove the second rewrite rule.
+
+If you already use mod_userdir in your virtual host or you don't want to use
+the '~' as first character just comment or remove the second rewrite rule and
+uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
+
+Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will be accesible
+through http://git.example.org/scm/ and http://git.example.org/var/.
+You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like the
+third and the fourth.
+
+
PATH_INFO usage
-----------------------
If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting