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diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 8433dd1d45..a9988200d6 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -7,113 +7,33 @@ The one working on: From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git. -How to configure gitweb for your local system ---------------------------------------------- - -See also the "Build time configuration" section in the INSTALL -file for gitweb (in gitweb/INSTALL). - -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). - Is 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_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: gitweb.css] - * 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] - * 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] - * 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] - - Runtime gitweb configuration ---------------------------- -You can adjust gitweb behaviour using the file specified in `GITWEB_CONFIG` -(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI), and -as a fallback `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf). +Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the +following order: + +1. built-in values (some set during build stage), +2. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`, + defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'), +3. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to + 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb), + or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file + (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf'). + +Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier +in above sequence. + +You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG +by adding + + read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM); + +at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file. In this case +settings in said per-instance file will override settings from +system-wide configuration file. Note that read_config_file checks +itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists. + The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the optional features, stored in the '%features' variable. @@ -164,7 +84,15 @@ 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, + 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). @@ -186,6 +114,15 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build): full description is available as 'title' attribute (usually shown on mouseover). By default set to 25, which might be too small if you use long project descriptions. + * $projects_list_group_categories + Enables the grouping of projects by category on the project list page. + The category of a project is determined by the $GIT_DIR/category + file or the 'gitweb.category' variable in its repository configuration. + Disabled by default. + * $project_list_default_category + Default category for projects for which none is specified. If set + to the empty string, such projects will remain uncategorized and + listed at the top, above categorized projects. * @git_base_url_list List of git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, shown in project summary page. Full URL is "$git_base_url/$project". @@ -206,7 +143,7 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build): * $fallback_encoding Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters. Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even - 'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man + 'utf-8'. Value must be valid encoding; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man page for a list. By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'. * @diff_opts Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default @@ -217,7 +154,26 @@ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -274,6 +230,13 @@ You can use the following files in repository: from the template during repository creation. You can use the gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes precedence. + * category (or gitweb.category) + Singe line category of a project, used to group projects if + $projects_list_group_categories is enabled. By default (file and + configuration variable absent), uncategorized projects are put in + the $project_list_default_category category. You can use the + gitweb.category repo configuration variable, but the file takes + precedence. * cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url) File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line. Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued @@ -296,12 +259,16 @@ If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http:// repositories, you can configure apache like this: <VirtualHost *:80> - ServerName git.example.org - DocumentRoot /pub/git - SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf + ServerName git.example.org + DocumentRoot /pub/git + SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf + + # turning on mod rewrite RewriteEngine on + # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script RewriteRule ^/$ /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> @@ -327,6 +294,63 @@ 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 @@ -377,7 +401,7 @@ named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb - AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)? /pub/git$1$3 + AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3 <Directory /var/www/gitweb> Options ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script cgi @@ -402,6 +426,14 @@ http://git.example.com/project will provide human-friendly gitweb access. +This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project +has a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as + +http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch + +will fail with a 404 error. + + Originally written by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |