http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL
[gitweb.git] / Documentation / git-http-backend.txt
index 0b5e9515a1c7f246ee91c17cccc63a7f7080a80d..2989c9f226b250561ef0a2f93a5193f8457a9e7a 100644 (file)
@@ -88,6 +88,23 @@ directive around the repository, or one of its parent directories:
        ...
 </Location>
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++
+To serve gitweb at the same url, use a ScriptAliasMatch to only
+those URLs that 'git-http-backend' can handle, and forward the
+rest to gitweb:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+ScriptAliasMatch \
+       "(?x)^/git/(.*/(HEAD | \
+                       info/refs | \
+                       objects/(info/[^/]+ | \
+                                [0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \
+                                pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \
+                       git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
+       /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
+
+ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/
+----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Accelerated static Apache 2.x::
        Similar to the above, but Apache can be used to return static
@@ -98,13 +115,25 @@ Accelerated static Apache 2.x::
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
 
-ScriptAlias /git/        /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
-Alias       /git_static/ /var/www/git/
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$          /var/www/git/$1
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx))$ /var/www/git/$1
+ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
+----------------------------------------------------------------
++
+This can be combined with the gitweb configuration:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/www/git
 
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteRule ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$    /git_static/$1 [PT]
-RewriteRule ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.pack)$ /git_static/$1 [PT]
-RewriteRule ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.idx)$  /git_static/$1 [PT]
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38})$          /var/www/git/$1
+AliasMatch ^/git/(.*/objects/pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.(pack|idx))$ /var/www/git/$1
+ScriptAliasMatch \
+       "(?x)^/git/(.*/(HEAD | \
+                       info/refs | \
+                       objects/info/[^/]+ | \
+                       git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
+       /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
+ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/
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