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First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using
-"make gitweb", then copy appropriate files (gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js,
-gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) to their destination.
-For example if git was (or is) installed with /usr prefix, you can do
+"make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files
+(gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png)
+to their destination. For example if git was (or is) installed with
+/usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do
- $ make prefix=/usr gitweb ;# as yourself
- # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root
+ $ make prefix=/usr gitweb ;# as yourself
+ # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb ;# as root
Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write
$ make configure ;# as yourself
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
$ make gitweb ;# as yourself
- # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root
+ # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin \
+ install-gitweb ;# as root
The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run
[executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI
Build example
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-- To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/ when git wrapper
- is installed at /usr/local/bin/git and the repositories (projects)
- we want to display are under /home/local/scm, you can do
+- To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/, when git wrapper
+ is installed at /usr/local/bin/git, the repositories (projects)
+ we want to display are under /home/local/scm, and you do not use
+ minifiers, you can do
make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \
- GITWEB_JS="/gitweb/gitweb.js" \
- GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \
- GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \
- GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \
+ GITWEB_JS="gitweb/static/gitweb.js" \
+ GITWEB_CSS="gitweb/static/gitweb.css" \
+ GITWEB_LOGO="gitweb/static/git-logo.png" \
+ GITWEB_FAVICON="gitweb/static/git-favicon.png" \
bindir=/usr/local/bin \
gitweb
- cp -fv ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,js,css} \
- ~/git/gitweb/git-{favicon,logo}.png \
- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/
+ make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb
Gitweb config file
- Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
- web server
+The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features
+ - Digest::MD5 - for gravatar support
+ - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script
+ - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view
+ - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds
+
Example web server configuration
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