|  | GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation | 
|  | ======================================= | 
|  |  | 
|  | First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using | 
|  | "make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files | 
|  | (gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) | 
|  | to their destination. For example if git was (or is) installed with | 
|  | /usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do | 
|  |  | 
|  | $ make prefix=/usr gitweb                            ;# as yourself | 
|  | # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb     ;# as root | 
|  |  | 
|  | Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to | 
|  | set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write | 
|  | instead | 
|  |  | 
|  | $ make configure                     ;# as yourself | 
|  | $ ./configure --prefix=/usr          ;# as yourself | 
|  | $ make gitweb                        ;# as yourself | 
|  | # make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin \ | 
|  | install-gitweb                ;# as root | 
|  |  | 
|  | The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run | 
|  | [executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI | 
|  | scripts). | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | Requirements | 
|  | ------------ | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Core git tools | 
|  | - Perl 5.8 | 
|  | - Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename. | 
|  | - web server | 
|  |  | 
|  | The following optional Perl modules are required for extra features | 
|  | - CGI::Fast and FCGI - for running gitweb as FastCGI script | 
|  | - HTML::TagCloud - for fancy tag cloud in project list view | 
|  | - HTTP::Date or Time::ParseDate - to support If-Modified-Since for feeds | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | Build time configuration | 
|  | ------------------------ | 
|  |  | 
|  | See also "How to configure gitweb for your local system" section below. | 
|  |  | 
|  | - There are many configuration variables which affect building of | 
|  | gitweb.cgi; see "default configuration for gitweb" section in main | 
|  | (top dir) Makefile, and instructions for building gitweb target. | 
|  |  | 
|  | One of the most important is where to find the git wrapper binary. Gitweb | 
|  | tries to find the git wrapper at $(bindir)/git, so you have to set $bindir | 
|  | when building gitweb.cgi, or $prefix from which $bindir is derived. If | 
|  | you build and install gitweb together with the rest of the git suite, | 
|  | there should be no problems. Otherwise, if git was for example | 
|  | installed from a binary package, you have to set $prefix (or $bindir) | 
|  | accordingly. | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Another important issue is where are git repositories you want to make | 
|  | available to gitweb. By default gitweb searches for repositories under | 
|  | /pub/git; if you want to have projects somewhere else, like /home/git, | 
|  | use GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build configuration variable. | 
|  |  | 
|  | By default all git repositories under projectroot are visible and | 
|  | available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by | 
|  | scanning the projectroot directory for git repositories. This can be | 
|  | changed (configured) as described in "Gitweb repositories" section | 
|  | below. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Note that gitweb deals directly with the object database, and does not | 
|  | need a working directory; the name of the project is the name of its | 
|  | repository object database, usually projectname.git for bare | 
|  | repositories. If you want to provide gitweb access to non-bare (live) | 
|  | repositories, you can make projectname.git a symbolic link under | 
|  | projectroot linking to projectname/.git (but it is just | 
|  | a suggestion). | 
|  |  | 
|  | - You can control where gitweb tries to find its main CSS style file, | 
|  | its JavaScript file, its favicon and logo with the GITWEB_CSS, GITWEB_JS | 
|  | GITWEB_FAVICON and GITWEB_LOGO build configuration variables. By default | 
|  | gitweb tries to find them in the same directory as gitweb.cgi script. | 
|  |  | 
|  | - You can optionally generate minified versions of gitweb.js and gitweb.css | 
|  | by defining the JSMIN and CSSMIN build configuration variables. By default | 
|  | the non-minified versions will be used. NOTE: if you enable this option, | 
|  | substitute gitweb.min.js and gitweb.min.css for all uses of gitweb.js and | 
|  | gitweb.css in the help files. | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | How to configure gitweb for your local system | 
|  | --------------------------------------------- | 
|  |  | 
|  | You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT: | 
|  |  | 
|  | * GIT_BINDIR | 
|  | Points where to find the git executable.  You should set it up to | 
|  | the place where the git binary was installed (usually /usr/bin) if you | 
|  | don't install git from sources together with gitweb.  [Default: $(bindir)] | 
|  | * GITWEB_SITENAME | 
|  | Shown in the title of all generated pages, defaults to the server name | 
|  | (SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable) if not set. [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_PROJECTROOT | 
|  | The root directory for all projects shown by gitweb. Must be set | 
|  | correctly for gitweb to find repositories to display.  See also | 
|  | "Gitweb repositories" in the INSTALL file for gitweb.  [Default: /pub/git] | 
|  | * GITWEB_PROJECT_MAXDEPTH | 
|  | The filesystem traversing limit for getting the project list; the number | 
|  | is taken as depth relative to the projectroot.  It is used when | 
|  | GITWEB_LIST is a directory (or is not set; then project root is used). | 
|  | This is meant to speed up project listing on large work trees by limiting | 
|  | search depth.  [Default: 2007] | 
|  | * GITWEB_LIST | 
|  | Points to a directory to scan for projects (defaults to project root | 
|  | if not set / if empty) or to a file with explicit listing of projects | 
|  | (together with projects' ownership). See "Generating projects list | 
|  | using gitweb" in INSTALL file for gitweb to find out how to generate | 
|  | such file from scan of a directory. [No default, which means use root | 
|  | directory for projects] | 
|  | * GITWEB_EXPORT_OK | 
|  | Show repository only if this file exists (in repository).  Only | 
|  | effective if this variable evaluates to true.  [No default / Not set] | 
|  | * GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT | 
|  | Only allow viewing of repositories also shown on the overview page. | 
|  | This for example makes GITWEB_EXPORT_OK to decide if repository is | 
|  | available and not only if it is shown.  If GITWEB_LIST points to | 
|  | file with list of project, only those repositories listed would be | 
|  | available for gitweb.  [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_HOMETEXT | 
|  | Points to an .html file which is included on the gitweb project | 
|  | overview page ('projects_list' view), if it exists.  Relative to | 
|  | gitweb.cgi script.  [Default: indextext.html] | 
|  | * GITWEB_SITE_HTML_HEAD_STRING | 
|  | html snippet to include in the <head> section of each page. [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_SITE_HEADER | 
|  | Filename of html text to include at top of each page.  Relative to | 
|  | gitweb.cgi script.  [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER | 
|  | Filename of html text to include at bottom of each page.  Relative to | 
|  | gitweb.cgi script.  [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_HOME_LINK_STR | 
|  | String of the home link on top of all pages, leading to $home_link | 
|  | (usually main gitweb page, which means projects list).  Used as first | 
|  | part of gitweb view "breadcrumb trail": <home> / <project> / <view>. | 
|  | [Default: projects] | 
|  | * GITWEB_SITENAME | 
|  | Name of your site or organization to appear in page titles.  Set it | 
|  | to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc.  If not set | 
|  | (if empty) gitweb uses "$SERVER_NAME Git", or "Untitled Git" if | 
|  | SERVER_NAME CGI environment variable is not set (e.g. if running | 
|  | gitweb as standalone script).  [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_BASE_URL | 
|  | Git base URLs used for URL to where fetch project from, i.e. full | 
|  | URL is "$git_base_url/$project".  Shown on projects summary page. | 
|  | Repository URL for project can be also configured per repository; this | 
|  | takes precedence over URLs composed from base URL and a project name. | 
|  | Note that you can setup multiple base URLs (for example one for | 
|  | git:// protocol access, another for http:// access) from the gitweb | 
|  | config file.  [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_CSS | 
|  | Points to the location where you put gitweb.css on your web server | 
|  | (or to be more generic, the URI of gitweb stylesheet).  Relative to the | 
|  | base URI of gitweb.  Note that you can setup multiple stylesheets from | 
|  | the gitweb config file.  [Default: static/gitweb.css (or | 
|  | static/gitweb.min.css if the CSSMIN variable is defined / CSS minifier | 
|  | is used)] | 
|  | * GITWEB_JS | 
|  | Points to the location where you put gitweb.js on your web server | 
|  | (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb). | 
|  | Relative to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: static/gitweb.js (or | 
|  | static/gitweb.min.js if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript | 
|  | minifier is used)] | 
|  | * CSSMIN, JSMIN | 
|  | Invocation of a CSS minifier or a JavaScript minifier, respectively, | 
|  | working as a filter (source on standard input, minified result on | 
|  | standard output).  If set, it is used to generate a minified version of | 
|  | 'static/gitweb.css' or 'static/gitweb.js', respectively.  *Note* that | 
|  | minified files would have *.min.css and *.min.js extension, which is | 
|  | important if you also set GITWEB_CSS and/or GITWEB_JS.  [No default] | 
|  | * GITWEB_LOGO | 
|  | Points to the location where you put git-logo.png on your web server | 
|  | (or to be more generic URI of logo, 72x27 size, displayed in top right | 
|  | corner of each gitweb page, and used as logo for Atom feed).  Relative | 
|  | to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: static/git-logo.png] | 
|  | * GITWEB_FAVICON | 
|  | Points to the location where you put git-favicon.png on your web server | 
|  | (or to be more generic URI of favicon, assumed to be image/png type; | 
|  | web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them | 
|  | in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks).  Relative | 
|  | to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: static/git-favicon.png] | 
|  | * GITWEB_CONFIG | 
|  | This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any | 
|  | of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime | 
|  | gitweb configuration" section below, and top of 'gitweb.cgi' for their | 
|  | full list and description.  If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG | 
|  | is set when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the | 
|  | environment variable will be loaded instead of the file specified | 
|  | when gitweb.cgi was created.  [Default: gitweb_config.perl] | 
|  | * GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM | 
|  | This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' as a fallback if GITWEB_CONFIG | 
|  | does not exist.  If the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is set | 
|  | when gitweb.cgi is executed, then the file specified in the environment | 
|  | variable will be loaded instead of the file specified when gitweb.cgi was | 
|  | created.  [Default: /etc/gitweb.conf] | 
|  | * HIGHLIGHT_BIN | 
|  | Path to the highlight executable to use (must be the one from | 
|  | http://www.andre-simon.de due to assumptions about parameters and output). | 
|  | Useful if highlight is not installed on your webserver's PATH. | 
|  | [Default: highlight] | 
|  |  | 
|  | Build example | 
|  | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 
|  |  | 
|  | - To install gitweb to /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb/, when git wrapper | 
|  | is installed at /usr/local/bin/git, the repositories (projects) | 
|  | we want to display are under /home/local/scm, and you do not use | 
|  | minifiers, you can do | 
|  |  | 
|  | make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/home/local/scm" \ | 
|  | GITWEB_JS="gitweb/static/gitweb.js" \ | 
|  | GITWEB_CSS="gitweb/static/gitweb.css" \ | 
|  | GITWEB_LOGO="gitweb/static/git-logo.png" \ | 
|  | GITWEB_FAVICON="gitweb/static/git-favicon.png" \ | 
|  | bindir=/usr/local/bin \ | 
|  | gitweb | 
|  |  | 
|  | make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb install-gitweb | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | Gitweb config file | 
|  | ------------------ | 
|  |  | 
|  | See also "Runtime gitweb configuration" section in README file | 
|  | for gitweb (in gitweb/README), and gitweb.conf(5) manpage. | 
|  |  | 
|  | - You can configure gitweb further using the per-instance gitweb configuration file; | 
|  | by default this is a file named gitweb_config.perl in the same place as | 
|  | gitweb.cgi script. You can control the default place for the config file | 
|  | using the GITWEB_CONFIG build configuration variable, and you can set it | 
|  | using the GITWEB_CONFIG environment variable. If this file does not | 
|  | exist, gitweb looks for a system-wide configuration file, normally | 
|  | /etc/gitweb.conf. You can change the default using the | 
|  | GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM build configuration variable, and override it | 
|  | through the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM environment variable. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Note that the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM system-wide configuration file is | 
|  | only used for instances that lack per-instance configuration file. | 
|  | You can use GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON common system-wide configuration | 
|  | file (normally /etc/gitweb-common.conf) to keep common default | 
|  | settings that apply to all instances.  Settings from per-instance or | 
|  | system-wide configuration file override those from common system-wide | 
|  | configuration file. | 
|  |  | 
|  | - The gitweb config file is a fragment of perl code. You can set variables | 
|  | using "our $variable = value"; text from "#" character until the end | 
|  | of a line is ignored. See perlsyn(1) for details. | 
|  |  | 
|  | See the top of gitweb.perl file for examples of customizable options. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Config file example | 
|  | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 
|  |  | 
|  | To enable blame, pickaxe search, and snapshot support, while allowing | 
|  | individual projects to turn them off, put the following in your | 
|  | GITWEB_CONFIG file: | 
|  |  | 
|  | $feature{'blame'}{'default'} = [1]; | 
|  | $feature{'blame'}{'override'} = 1; | 
|  |  | 
|  | $feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [1]; | 
|  | $feature{'pickaxe'}{'override'} = 1; | 
|  |  | 
|  | $feature{'snapshot'}{'default'} = ['zip', 'tgz']; | 
|  | $feature{'snapshot'}{'override'} = 1; | 
|  |  | 
|  | If you allow overriding for the snapshot feature, you can specify which | 
|  | snapshot formats are globally disabled. You can also add any command line | 
|  | options you want (such as setting the compression level). For instance, | 
|  | you can disable Zip compressed snapshots and set GZip to run at level 6 by | 
|  | adding the following lines to your $GITWEB_CONFIG: | 
|  |  | 
|  | $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1; | 
|  | $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6']; | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | Gitweb repositories | 
|  | ------------------- | 
|  |  | 
|  | By default gitweb shows all git repositories under single common repository | 
|  | root on a local filesystem; see description of GITWEB_PROJECTROOT build-time | 
|  | configuration variable above (and also of GITWEB_LIST). | 
|  |  | 
|  | More advanced usage, like limiting access or visibility of repositories and | 
|  | managing multiple roots are described on gitweb manpage. | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | Example web server configuration | 
|  | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 
|  |  | 
|  | See also "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections | 
|  | in gitweb(1) manpage. | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Apache2, gitweb installed as CGI script, | 
|  | under /var/www/cgi-bin/ | 
|  |  | 
|  | ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" | 
|  |  | 
|  | <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> | 
|  | Options Indexes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI | 
|  | AllowOverride None | 
|  | Order allow,deny | 
|  | Allow from all | 
|  | </Directory> | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Apache2, gitweb installed as mod_perl legacy script, | 
|  | under /var/www/perl/ | 
|  |  | 
|  | Alias /perl "/var/www/perl" | 
|  |  | 
|  | <Directory "/var/www/perl"> | 
|  | SetHandler perl-script | 
|  | PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry | 
|  | PerlOptions +ParseHeaders | 
|  | Options Indexes FollowSymlinks +ExecCGI | 
|  | AllowOverride None | 
|  | Order allow,deny | 
|  | Allow from all | 
|  | </Directory> |