Re: Make Gitweb behave like Apache mod_userdir

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 21:15, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Sylvain Rabot [off-list ref] writes:

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+If you want gitweb to act a bit like UserDir mod in apache, knowing, http://<host>/~<user>
+will list all git repos of <user> located in a special directory in his home (/home/<user>/gitweb/),
+do the following steps :
+
+Add this to the VirtualHost section of your apache configuration file :
+
+   RewriteRule ^/~([^\/]+)/?$  /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]
+
+Modify your gitweb.conf file, located at /etc/gitweb.conf in this example, with :
+
+   $projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/path/to/the/defaul/project/root";
+
+Thus, each user with a gitweb folder in his home will be able to browse it with gitweb.
+/!\ The gitweb folder and user's home folder must be readable by the webserver user.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to somehow make this work well together with
the --user-path feature of git-daemon?

Perhaps the recommended name given in the example shouldn't be ~/gitweb,
but more like ~/public_git, as this is like ~/public_html but for git
repositories.  Then the end users will browse

As I said, it's configuration :)

       http://my.site/~gitster/public_git/git.git

would be http://my.site/~gitster/git.git

and gitweb can be told to show

       clone URL: git://my.site/~gitster/public_git/git.git

and git://my.site/~gitster/git.git

if --user-path of git daemon set to public_git

on the page.  If the site administrator runs git-daemon with --user-path
set to public_git, everything will work seamlessly, no?

Yes :)