From 604cb211a9b5401b265d1c1ca3d57dad243e7260 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Chandler Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:48:46 +0100 Subject: Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment Signed-off-by: Alan Chandler Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- gitweb/README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'gitweb/README') diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 61c7ab5d4b..78e6fc05f3 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ repositories, you can configure apache like this: DocumentRoot /pub/git RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] + SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under @@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path. +Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use +the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a +configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will +override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or +gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on +which variables and what they mean. Originally written by: -- cgit v1.2.3