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 affects 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 most important is where to find git wrapper binary. Gitweb
38 tries to find 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 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 search 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. 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 object database, and does not
57 need 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 repository, you can make projectname.git 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 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 gitweb configuration file;
95 by default it is file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as
96 gitweb.cgi script. You can control default place for config file
97 using GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it
98 using GITWEB_CONFIG environmental variable.
100 - Gitweb config file is [fragment] of perl code. You can set variables
101 using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end
102 of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details.
104 See the top of gitweb.perl file for examples of customizable options.
109 To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support, while allowing
110 individual projects to turn them off, put the following in your
113 $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1];
114 $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1;
116 $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1];
117 $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1;
119 $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz'];
120 $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1;
126 - By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and
127 available to gitweb. List of projects is generated by default by
128 scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories (for object
129 databases to be more exact).
131 You can provide pre-generated list of [visible] repositories,
132 together with information about their owners (the project ownership
133 is taken from owner of repository directory otherwise), by setting
134 GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or $projects_list variable
135 in gitweb config file) to point to a plain file.
137 Each line of projects list file should consist of url-encoded path
138 to project repository database (relative to projectroot) separated
139 by space from url-encoded project owner; spaces in both project path
140 and project owner have to be encoded as either '%20' or '+'.
142 You can generate projects list index file using project_index action
143 (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb.
145 - By default even if project is not visible on projects list page, you
146 can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting gitweb URL. You can set
147 GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or $strict_export
148 variable in gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of
149 repositories also shown on the overview page.
151 - Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow
152 viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via
153 GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or $export_ok
154 variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb
155 show repository only if this file exists in its object database
156 (if directory has the magic file $export_ok).
158 Generating projects list using gitweb
159 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
161 We assume that GITWEB_CONFIG has its default Makefile value, namely
162 gitweb_config.perl. Put the following in gitweb_make_index.perl file:
164 $GITWEB_CONFIG = "gitweb_config.perl";
165 do $GITWEB_CONFIG if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG;
167 $projects_list = $projectroot;
169 Then create the following script to get list of project in the format
170 suitable for GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or
171 $projects_list variable in gitweb config):
175 export GITWEB_CONFIG="gitweb_make_index.perl"
176 export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
177 export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
178 export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
179 export QUERY_STRING="a=project_index"
181 perl -- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
189 - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
193 Example web server configuration
194 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
196 See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb
200 - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
201 under /var/www/cgi-bin/
203 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
205 <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
206 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
212 - Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script,
215 Alias /perl "/var/www/perl"
217 <Directory "/var/www/perl">
218 SetHandler perl-script
219 PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
220 PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
221 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI