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The one working on:
- http://www.kernel.org/git/
+ http://git.kernel.org/
From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
-How to configure gitweb for your local system
----------------------------------------------
-
-See also "Build time configuration" section in INSTALL
-file for gitweb (in gitweb/INSTALL).
-
-You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
- * GIT_BINDIR
- Points out where to find git executable. You should set up it to
- the place where 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 INSTALL file for gitweb. [Default: /pub/git]
- * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH
- The filesystem traversing limit for getting projects 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
- find 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 precendence over URL composed from base URL and project name.
- Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for
- git:// protocol access, one for http:// access) from 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 URI of gitweb stylesheet). Relative to base
- URI of gitweb. Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from
- 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]
-
-
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).
+(defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the CGI), and
+as a fallback `GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM` (defaults to /etc/gitweb.conf).
The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
-See also "Gitweb config file" (with example of gitweb config file), and
-"Gitweb repositories" sections in INSTALL file for gitweb.
+See also the "Gitweb config file" (with an example of config file), and
+the "Gitweb repositories" sections in INSTALL file for gitweb.
-Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables
+The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables
using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) man page for details.
-Below there is list of vaiables which you might want to set in gitweb config.
+Below is the list of variables which you might want to set in gitweb config.
See the top of 'gitweb.cgi' for the full list of variables and their
descriptions.
(with the exception of $projectroot and $projects_list this list does
not include variables usually directly set during build):
* $GIT
- Cure git executable to use. By default set to "$GIT_BINDIR/git", which
+ Core git executable to use. By default set to "$GIT_BINDIR/git", which
in turn is by default set to "$(bindir)/git". If you use git from binary
package, set this to "/usr/bin/git". This can just be "git" if your
webserver has a sensible PATH. If you have multiple git versions
set correctly for gitweb to find repositories.
* $projects_list
Source of projects list, either directory to scan, or text file
- with list of repositories (in the "<URI-encoded repository path> SPC
- <URI-encoded repository owner>" format). Set to $GITWEB_LIST
- during installation. If empty, $projectroot is used to scan for
- repositories.
+ with list of repositories (in the "<URI-encoded repository path> SP
+ <URI-encoded repository owner>" line format; actually there can be
+ any sequence of whitespace in place of space (SP)). Set to
+ $GITWEB_LIST during installation. If empty, $projectroot is used
+ to scan for repositories.
* $my_url, $my_uri
- URL and absolute URL of gitweb script; you might need to set those
- variables if you are using 'pathinfo' feature: see also below.
+ 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. 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.
* $home_link
Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
- "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page; you might
- need to set it up to [base] gitweb URI if you use 'pathinfo' feature
- (alternative format of the URLs, with project name embedded directly
- in the path part of URL).
+ "breadcrumbs"). By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
* @stylesheets
List of URIs of stylesheets (relative to base URI of a page). You
might specify more than one stylesheet, for example use gitweb.css
to make it easier to upgrade gitweb. You can add 'site' stylesheet
for example by using
push @stylesheets, "gitweb-site.css";
- in gitweb config file.
+ in the gitweb config file.
* $logo_url, $logo_label
URI and label (title) of GIT logo link (or your site logo, if you choose
to use different logo image). By default they point to git homepage;
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".
Default mimetype for blob_plain (raw) view, if mimetype checking
doesn't result in some other type; by default 'text/plain'.
* $default_text_plain_charset
- Default charset for text files. If not set, web serwer configuration
+ Default charset for text files. If not set, web server configuration
would be used.
* $mimetypes_file
File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types before
- trying /etc/mime.types. Path, if relative, is taken currently as taken
- relative to current git repositoy.
+ trying /etc/mime.types. Path, if relative, is taken currently as
+ relative to the current git repository.
* $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
('-M'); set it to ('-C') or ('-C', '-C') to also detect copies, or
set it to () if you don't want to have renames detection.
+ * $prevent_xss
+ If true, some gitweb features are disabled to prevent content in
+ 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
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning filesystem starting
+from $projectroot (or $projects_list, if it points to directory), you can
+provide list of projects by setting $projects_list to a text file with list
+of projects (and some additional info). This file uses the following
+format:
+
+One record (for project / repository) per line, whitespace separated fields;
+does not support (at least for now) lines continuation (newline escaping).
+Leading and trailing whitespace are ignored, any run of whitespace can be
+used as field separator (rules for Perl's "split(' ', $line)"). Keyed by
+the first field, which is project name, i.e. path to repository GIT_DIR
+relative to $projectroot. Fields use modified URI encoding, defined in
+RFC 3986, section 2.1 (Percent-Encoding), or rather "Query string encoding"
+(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding), the difference
+being that SP (' ') can be encoded as '+' (and therefore '+' has to be also
+percent-encoded). Reserved characters are: '%' (used for encoding), '+'
+(can be used to encode SPACE), all whitespace characters as defined in Perl,
+including SP, TAB and LF, (used to separate fields in a record).
+
+Currently list of fields is
+ * <repository path> - path to repository GIT_DIR, relative to $projectroot
+ * <repository owner> - displayed as repository owner, preferably full name,
+ or email, or both
+
+You can additionally use $projects_list file to limit which repositories
+are visible, and together with $strict_export to limit access to
+repositories (see "Gitweb repositories" section in gitweb/INSTALL).
+
Per-repository gitweb configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* README.html
A .html file (HTML fragment) which is included on the gitweb project
summary page inside <div> block element. You can use it for longer
- description of a project, to provide links for example to projects
- homepage, etc.
+ description of a project, to provide links (for example to project's
+ homepage), etc. This is recognized only if XSS prevention is off
+ ($prevent_xss is false); a way to include a readme safely when XSS
+ prevention is on may be worked out in the future.
* description (or gitweb.description)
Short (shortened by default to 25 characters in the projects list page)
single line description of a project (of a repository). Plain text file;
HTML will be escaped. By default set to
Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
- from the template during creating repository. You can use
+ from the template during repository creation. You can use the
gitweb.description repo configuration variable, but the file takes
- precendence.
+ 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 $project_list_default_category category. You can use the
+ gitweb.category repo configuration variable, but the file takes
+ precedence.
* cloneurl (or multiple-valued gitweb.url)
File with repository URL (used for clone and fetch), one per line.
Displayed in the project summary page. You can use multiple-valued
gitweb.url repository configuration variable for that, but the file
- takes precendence.
+ takes precedence.
* gitweb.owner
You can use the gitweb.owner repository configuration variable to set
repository's owner. It is displayed in the project list and summary
- page. If it's not set, filesystem directory's owner is used.
+ page. If it's not set, filesystem directory's owner is used
+ (via GECOS field / real name field from getpwiud(3)).
* various gitweb.* config variables (in config)
Read description of %feature hash for detailed list, and some
descriptions.
If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
repositories, you can configure apache like this:
-<VirtualHost www:80>
- ServerName git.domain.org
- DocumentRoot /pub/git
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+ ServerName git.example.org
+ DocumentRoot /pub/git
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # turning on mod rewrite
RewriteEngine on
- RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT]
- SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # 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>
The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on
which variables and what they mean.
+If you use the rewrite rules from the example you'll likely also need
+something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
+
+ @stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css");
+ $my_uri = "/";
+ $home_link = "/";
+
+
+Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
+virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
+
+virtual host configuration :
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+ ServerName git.example.org
+ DocumentRoot /pub/git
+ SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
+
+ # turning on mod rewrite
+ RewriteEngine on
+
+ # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
+ RewriteRule ^/$ /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
+
+ $feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
+
+in your gitweb.conf, it is possible to set up your server so that it
+consumes and produces URLs in the form
+
+http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
+
+by using a configuration such as the following, that assumes that
+/var/www/gitweb is the DocumentRoot of your webserver, and that it
+contains the gitweb.cgi script and complementary static files
+(stylesheet, favicon):
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+ ServerAlias git.example.com
+
+ DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
+
+ <Directory /var/www/gitweb>
+ Options ExecCGI
+ AddHandler cgi-script cgi
+
+ DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
+
+ RewriteEngine On
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+ RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
+ </Directory>
+</VirtualHost>
+
+The rewrite rule guarantees that existing static files will be properly
+served, whereas any other URL will be passed to gitweb as PATH_INFO
+parameter.
+
+Notice that in this case you don't need special settings for
+@stylesheets, $my_uri and $home_link, but you lose "dumb client" access
+to your project .git dirs. A possible workaround for the latter is the
+following: in your project root dir (e.g. /pub/git) have the projects
+named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
+/pub/git/project.git) and configure Apache as follows:
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+ ServerAlias git.example.com
+
+ DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
+
+ AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
+ <Directory /var/www/gitweb>
+ Options ExecCGI
+ AddHandler cgi-script cgi
+
+ DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
+
+ RewriteEngine On
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+ RewriteRule ^.* /gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
+ </Directory>
+</VirtualHost>
+
+The additional AliasMatch makes it so that
+
+http://git.example.com/project.git
+
+will give raw access to the project's git dir (so that the project can
+be cloned), while
+
+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>