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 Other characters that have to be url-encoded, i.e. replaced by '%'
148 followed by two-digit character number in octal, are: other whitespace
149 characters (because they are field separator in a record), plus sign '+'
150 (because it can be used as replacement for spaces), and percent sign '%'
151 (which is used for encoding / escaping).
153 You can generate the projects list index file using the project_index
154 action (the 'TXT' link on projects list page) directly from gitweb.
156 - By default, even if a project is not visible on projects list page, you
157 can view it nevertheless by hand-crafting a gitweb URL. You can set the
158 GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT build configuration variable (or the $strict_export
159 variable in the gitweb config file) to only allow viewing of
160 repositories also shown on the overview page.
162 - Alternatively, you can configure gitweb to only list and allow
163 viewing of the explicitly exported repositories, via the
164 GITWEB_EXPORT_OK build configuration variable (or the $export_ok
165 variable in gitweb config file). If it evaluates to true, gitweb
166 shows repositories only if this file exists in its object database
167 (if directory has the magic file named $export_ok).
169 - Finally, it is possible to specify an arbitrary perl subroutine that
170 will be called for each project to determine if it can be exported.
171 The subroutine receives an absolute path to the project as its only
174 For example, if you use mod_perl to run the script, and have dumb
175 http protocol authentication configured for your repositories, you
176 can use the following hook to allow access only if the user is
177 authorized to read the files:
179 $export_auth_hook = sub {
180 use Apache2::SubRequest ();
181 use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(HTTP_OK);
182 my $path = "$_[0]/HEAD";
183 my $r = Apache2::RequestUtil->request;
184 my $sub = $r->lookup_file($path);
185 return $sub->filename eq $path
186 && $sub->status == Apache2::Const::HTTP_OK;
190 Generating projects list using gitweb
191 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
193 We assume that GITWEB_CONFIG has its default Makefile value, namely
194 gitweb_config.perl. Put the following in gitweb_make_index.perl file:
196 $GITWEB_CONFIG = "gitweb_config.perl";
197 do $GITWEB_CONFIG if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG;
199 $projects_list = $projectroot;
201 Then create the following script to get list of project in the format
202 suitable for GITWEB_LIST build configuration variable (or
203 $projects_list variable in gitweb config):
207 export GITWEB_CONFIG="gitweb_make_index.perl"
208 export GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
209 export HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
210 export REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
211 export QUERY_STRING="a=project_index"
213 perl -- /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
221 - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename.
225 Example web server configuration
226 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
228 See also "Webserver configuration" section in README file for gitweb
232 - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script,
233 under /var/www/cgi-bin/
235 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
237 <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
238 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
244 - Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script,
247 Alias /perl "/var/www/perl"
249 <Directory "/var/www/perl">
250 SetHandler perl-script
251 PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
252 PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
253 Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI