Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir

Sylvain Rabot [off-list ref] writes:

I made gitweb behave a bit like UserDir module will in apache.
In fact it's only configuration but I think it could be useful to others.

Thanks.  Any comment from gitweb gangs?

Basicly it allows users of your server who use git to be able to use
gitweb to browse their own root project. E.G. :

Alice's private repos :

/home/alice/git/product_a.git (cloned from /var/git/product_a.git)
/home/alice/git/product_b.git (cloned from /var/git/product_b.git)
/home/alice/git/product_c.git (cloned from /var/git/product_c.git)

Alice's links to her repos which she wants to be able to browse with gitweb :

/home/alice/gitweb/product_a -> /home/alice/git/product_a.git/.git
/home/alice/gitweb/product_c -> /home/alice/git/product_c.git/.git

Bare repos :

/var/git/product_a.git
/var/git/product_b.git
/var/git/product_c.git
/var/git/product_d.git

/etc/gitweb.conf :

$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/var/git/";

Apache configuration :

RewriteRule ^/~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]

So now all users with a gitweb folder in their home will be able to
browse all git repos in it through http://<host>/~<user>.

You will find a patch enclosed which try to describe best what I did
and why in the gitweb/README.