setup issue: cgit only shows summary page

[Lukas Tribus]

>> I think you either need to set PATH_INFO here *or* to avoid setting
>> SCRIPT_NAME. CGit uses SCRIPT_NAME to decide whether to use path URLs
>> or the "url=" query parameter. If it's using path URLs then you need to
>> have PATH_INFO specified as the full path (which must start with
>> $SCRIPT_NAME).
>>
>> Note that I've never used fcgiwrapper so I don't know whether it will
>> set either of those automatically; I'm just going on how CGit behaves.
>
> fcgiwrap uses SCRIPT_FILENAME (if set) and the concatenation of
> DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME otherwise.
>
> Suggestions for the nginx config: generally a default, sane set of
> fastcgi parameters is available in the fastcgi_params file which you can
> include with "include fastcgi_params;".

Thanks for these hints. In the end, I had to intercept the fcgi requests
to understand whats going on exactly, and I found that nginx' try_files
resets PATH_INFO [1].

Configuring:
 fastcgi_split_path_info       ^(/cgit/)(.*)$;
 fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;


did the trick for me, without removing try_files.


Lukas


[1] http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/321