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   1GIT web Interface
   2=================
   3
   4From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
   5
   6
   7Build time gitweb configuration
   8-------------------------------
   9There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
  10others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
  11as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).
  12
  13Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
  14(in 'gitweb/INSTALL').
  15
  16
  17Runtime gitweb configuration
  18----------------------------
  19Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
  20following order:
  21
  221. built-in values (some set during build stage),
  232. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`,
  24   defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
  253. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to
  26   'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb),
  27   or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file
  28   (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf').
  29
  30Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
  31in above sequence.
  32
  33You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG
  34by adding
  35
  36  read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM);
  37
  38at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file.  In this case
  39settings in said per-instance file will override settings from
  40system-wide configuration file.  Note that read_config_file checks
  41itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists.
  42
  43The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
  44optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
  45
  46Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
  47in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
  48as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
  49
  50See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
  51
  52
  53Web server configuration
  54------------------------
  55Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
  56ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script.  You can find some simple examples
  57in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
  58gitweb/INSTALL).
  59
  60See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
  61gitweb(1) manpage.
  62
  63
  64AUTHORS
  65-------
  66Originally written by:
  67  Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
  68
  69Any comment/question/concern to:
  70  Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>