Help with installing cgit

[John Keeping]

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On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:37:00AM +0000, Shlomit Afgin wrote:
> On 12/29/13 12:18 PM, "John Keeping" <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 08:46:37AM +0000, Shlomit Afgin wrote:
> >> I download from http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/refs/  the file
> >>cgit-0.9.2.tar.xz
> >> I follow the instruction in README:
> >>      make get-git
> >>      make
> >>      make install
> >>      Edit Apache conf file and add
> >>         <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">
> >>           AllowOverride None
> >>           Options +ExecCGI
> >>           Order allow,deny
> >>           Allow from all
> >>         </Directory>
> >>      I also add alias:
> >>         Alias /cgit  /var/www/htdocs/cgit/
> >> 
> >> When I go to http://server.domain/cgit I get the following error:
> >>     You don't have permission to access /cgit/ on this server
> >>     And In the error_log I get:
> >>         Directory index forbidden by Options directive:
> >>/var/www/htdocs/cgit/
> >> I tried to add to 'Options' the +Indexes, So I get the list of the
> >> content but the cgit did not work.
> >
> >The "cgit" program is a CGI executable that you need to run.  Do you
> >have "cgit" in /var/www/htdocs/cgit/ ?  If so, what happens if you go to
> >http://your.domain/cgit/cgit ?
> >
> >I have the following in my Apache config for CGit:
> >
> >    <Location /cgit>
> >            RewriteEngine on
> >            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >            RewriteRule ^/var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgit(.*)
> >/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi$1 [L,PT]
> >    </Location>
> >
> >This rewrites all requests under /cgit to go to the "cgit" program in
> >/cgi-bin/.
> 
> I have /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi and when I go to
> http://server.domain/cgit/cgit.cgi,
> It try to open the file (and as where to save it) instead of run it.

Do you have a suitable "AddHandler" directive?  The link I gave below
has a section on how to use ExecCGI and says you will need something
like this:

    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

> >There is some more information on Apache's CGI support here [1].
> >
> >[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html