1 GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation
2 =======================================
4 First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using
5 "make gitweb/gitweb.cgi", then copy appropriate files (gitweb.cgi,
6 gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) to their destination.
7 For example if git was (or is) installed with /usr prefix, you can do
9 $ make prefix=/usr gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself
10 # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root
12 Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
13 set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write
16 $ make configure ;# as yourself
17 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
18 $ make gitweb/gitweb.cgi ;# as yourself
19 # cp gitweb/git* /var/www/cgi-bin/ ;# as root
21 The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run
22 [executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI
26 Build time configuration
27 ------------------------
29 See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" in README
30 file for gitweb (in gitweb/README).
32 - There are many configuration variables which affect building of
33 gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main
34 (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb/gitweb.cgi
37 One of the most important is where to find the git wrapper binary. Gitweb
38 tries to find the git wrapper at $(bindir)/git, so you have to set $bindir
39 when building gitweb.cgi, or $prefix from which $bindir is derived. If
40 you build and install gitweb together with the rest of the git suite,
41 there should be no problems. Otherwise, if git was for example
42 installed from a binary package, you have to set $prefix (or $bindir)
45 - Another important issue is where are git repositories you want to make
46 available to gitweb. By default gitweb searches for repositories under
47 /pub/git; if you want to have projects somewhere else, like /home/git,
48 use GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build configuration variable.
50 By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
51 available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by
52 scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories. This can be
53 changed (configured) as described in "Gitweb repositories" section
56 Note that gitweb deals directly with the object database, and does not
57 need a working directory; the name of the project is the name of its
58 repository object database, usually projectname.git for bare
59 repositories. If you want to provide gitweb access to non-bare (live)
60 repositories, you can make projectname.git a symbolic link under
61 projectroot linking to projectname/.git (but it is just
64 - You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file,
65 its favicon and logo with the GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO
66 build configuration variables. By default gitweb tries to find them
67 in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script.
72 - To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/ when git wrapper
73 is installed at /usr/local/bin/git and the repositories (projects)
74 we want to display are under /home/local/scm, you can do
76 make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \
77 GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" \
78 GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" \
79 GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" \
80 bindir=/usr/local/bin \
83 cp -fv ~/git/gitweb/gitweb.{cgi,css} \
84 ~/git/gitweb/git-{favicon,logo}.png \
85 /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/
91 See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file
92 for gitweb (in gitweb/README).
94 - You can configure gitweb further using the gitweb configuration file;
95 by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
96 gitweb.cgi script. You can control the default place for the config file
97 using the GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it
98 using the GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable. If this file does not
99 exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally
100 /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the
101 GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it
102 through the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable.
104 - The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables
105 using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
106 of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details.
108 See the top of gitweb.perl file for examples of customizable options.
113 To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support, while allowing
114 individual projects to turn them off, put the following in your
117 $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
118 $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
120 $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
121 $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
123 $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz'];
124 $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1;
130 - By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
131 available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by
132 scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories (for object
133 databases to be more exact).
135 You can provide a pre-generated list of [visible] repositories,
136 together with information about their owners (the project ownership
137 defaults to the owner of the repository directory otherwise), by setting
138 the GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or the $projects_list
139 variable in the gitweb config file) to point to a plain file.
141 Each line of the projects list file should consist of the url-encoded path
142 to the project repository database (relative to projectroot), followed
143 by the url-encoded project owner on the same line (separated by a space).
144 Spaces in both project path and project owner have to be encoded as either
147 You can generate the projects list index file using the project_index
148 action (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb.
150 - By default, even if a project is not visible on projects list page, you
151 can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting a gitweb URL. You can set the
152 GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or the $strict_export
153 variable in the gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of
154 repositories also shown on the overview page.
156 - Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow
157 viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via the
158 GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or the $export_ok
159 variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb
160 shows repositories only if this file exists in its object database
161 (if directory has the magic file named $export_ok).
163 Generating projects list using gitweb
164 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
166 We assume that GITWEB_CONFIG has its default Makefile value, namely
167 gitweb_config.perl. Put the following in gitweb_make_index.perl file:
169 $GITWEB_CONFIG = "gitweb_config.perl";
170 do $GITWEB_CONFIG if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG;
172 $projects_list = $projectroot;
174 Then create the following script to get list of project in the format
175 suitable for GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or
176 $projects_list variable in gitweb config):
180 export GITWEB_CONFIG="gitweb_make_index.perl"
181 export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
182 export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
183 export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
184 export QUERY_STRING="a=project_index"
186 perl -- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
194 - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
198 Example web server configuration
199 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
201 See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb
205 - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
206 under /var/www/cgi-bin/
208 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
210 <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
211 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
217 - Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script,
220 Alias /perl "/var/www/perl"
222 <Directory "/var/www/perl">
223 SetHandler perl-script
224 PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
225 PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
226 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI