4 From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
7 Build time gitweb configuration
8 -------------------------------
9 There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
10 others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
11 as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).
13 Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
14 (in 'gitweb/INSTALL').
17 Runtime gitweb configuration
18 ----------------------------
19 Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
22 1. built-in values (some set during build stage),
23 2. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`,
24 defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
25 3. 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').
30 Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
33 You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG
36 read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM);
38 at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file. In this case
39 settings in said per-instance file will override settings from
40 system-wide configuration file. Note that read_config_file checks
41 itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists.
43 The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
44 optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
46 Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
47 in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
48 as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
50 See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
53 Web server configuration
54 ------------------------
55 Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
56 ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script. You can find some simple examples
57 in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
60 See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
66 Originally written by:
67 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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