7 From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
10 Build time gitweb configuration
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12 There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
13 others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
14 as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).
16 Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
17 (in 'gitweb/INSTALL').
20 Runtime gitweb configuration
21 ----------------------------
22 Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
25 1. built-in values (some set during build stage),
26 2. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`,
27 defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
28 3. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to
29 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb),
30 or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file
31 (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf').
33 Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
36 You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG
39 read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM);
41 at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file. In this case
42 settings in said per-instance file will override settings from
43 system-wide configuration file. Note that read_config_file checks
44 itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists.
46 The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
47 optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
49 Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
50 in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
51 as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
53 See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
56 Web server configuration
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58 Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
59 ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script. You can find some simple examples
60 in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
63 See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
69 Originally written by:
70 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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