Help with installing cgit

Shlomit Afgin shlomit.afgin at weizmann.ac.il
Mon Dec 30 07:36:45 CET 2013



On 12/29/13 5:13 PM, "John Keeping" <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 02:00:56PM +0000, Shlomit Afgin wrote:
>> On 12/29/13 2:02 PM, "John Keeping" <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> >[administrivia: please don't top post.]
>> >
>> >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
>> 
>> I'm sorry, I did not had the 'Addhandler'.
>> Now I get a web page, but when I click on the link I get a regular
>>browse
>> of the directory in the web.
>> I cannot see the files exist in the repository.
>
>Sorry, I'm not an expert on configuring Apache.  I recommend you read
>the CGI tutorial linked above thoroughly.
>
>Do you have CGit's "virtual-root" configuration turned on?  It will
>probably be simpler to disable that.

Thank you very much!
I comment the "virtual-root" line and now it's seem to work.
Thanks.



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