cgit: No repositories found

[John Keeping]

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:41:25PM +0000, Gary Yang wrote:
> After I setup cgit. I got "No repositories found". It is CentOS 7.2 platform. Please help. Here are what I did.
> 
> 1. After installed gitolite, I got repos at /home/git/repositories/gitolite-admin.git and testing.git
> 
> #Repositories permission:
> ls -alF /home/gits
> drwxrwxrwx.  5 git git 70 Sep 23 15:19 repositories
> 
> #Repositories permission:
> ls -alF repositories
> drwxrwxrwx.  8 git git 4096 Sep 22 17:46 gitolite-admin.git/
> drwxrwxrwx.  7 git git 4096 Sep 22 17:46 testing.git/
> 
> ls -alF /home/git/projects.list
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 git git 46 Sep 23 15:00 /home/git/projects.list
> cat /home/git/projects.list
> testing.gitgitolite-admin.git
> 
> 2. After installed cgit, changed line below in default cgitrc

> clone-url=git://servergit01/$CGIT_REPO_URL git at servergit01:$CGIT_REPO_URL
> 
> Added 3 lines to default cgitrc at the bottom.
> enable-git-config=1
> project-list=/home/git/projects.list
> scan-path=/home/git/repositories

> In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> <IfModule alias_module>
>    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"</IfModule>
>    IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf
> <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">
>    AllowOverride None
>    Options +ExecCGI
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 3. Copied /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi to /var/www/cgi-bin/cgit

> cp /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi to /var/www/cgi-bin/cgit
> 
> However, I got "No repositories found" when I hit the page: http://servergit01/cgit
> Please help.

This all looks sensible, but the upstream CGit project does not ship a
default cgitrc, so you must be using something provided by your
distribution.  I can't say what other options may be set there.

One option that might be relevant is "strict-export", if that is set
there are additional requirements for repositories to be displayed.