Re: Fwd: gitweb trouble on fedora

Thanks J.H,

I figured out the issue.  Fedora wants the git repos in /var/lib/git,
which isn't owned by apache, but somehow magically works with the
default yum install gitweb,  the default git.conf doesn't specify a
git.conf and all my attempt to change the datapath to /var/cache/git
or /pub/git failed with permission denied.

Restating fix, for others who google this problem:
#revert to fedora gitweb
sudo yum remove gitweb
sudo yum install gitweb
mv /path/your.git/ /var/lib/git/

Back to coding,
Brent

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Brent Payne [off-list ref] wrote:

Okay, reinstalled gitweb, I don't get the permission error but I still
get a 404 Not Found
[bpayne@hg git]$ wget http://localhost/git
--2010-02-26 14:06:26--  http://localhost/git
Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://localhost/git/ [following]
--2010-02-26 14:06:26--  http://localhost/git/
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2010-02-26 14:06:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.

apache error log, doesn't list anything, just standard restart info:
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd
running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/sbin/suexec)
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
digest authentication ...
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [warn] ./mod_dnssd.c: No services found to register
[Fri Feb 26 14:04:11 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2
PHP/5.3.1 configured -- resuming normal operations


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Brent Payne [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I pulled and made gitweb.cfg from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
i first tried the fedora yum install gitweb
and I've tried both /pub/git and /var/cache/git, the later is used in
some online tutorials.  I've tried both with apache owning each
folder.  I've tried a lot of different tweaks, but it seems to be
something to do with permissions but I currently have apache:apache as
the owner of /var/cache/git

this is my current /etc/gitweb.config
# path to git projects (<project>.git)
$projectroot = "/var/cache/git";
# directory to use for temp files
$git_temp = "/tmp";
# target of the home link on top of all pages
$home_link = "/git/";
# html text to include at home page
$home_text = "indextext.html";
# file with project list; by default, simply scan the projectroot dir.
$projects_list = $projectroot;
# stylesheet to use
$stylesheet = "gitweb.css";
# logo to use
$logo = "git-logo.png";
# the 'favicon'
$favicon = "git-favicon.png";




this is my current /etc/init.d/httpd/conf.d/git.conf:

Alias /gitweb-data /var/cache/git
ScriptAlias /git /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin/>
 Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
 AllowOverride None
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
</Directory>

should I start over and reinstall the fedora gitweb? get back to a
known state.  Pretty sure I get the same error, but I'll do that.

Thanks,
Brent


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM, J.H. [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Errr let me back that up - my gitweb-caching package in fedora doesn't
make reference to /var/cache/git at all - where is the code your trying
to run coming from?  Which iteration of the caching code are you using,
is it mainline, Jakub's, mine, fedora's?  Some additional information
would be helpful.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 02/26/2010 01:38 PM, J.H. wrote:

quoted

Brent,

Make sure that /var/cache/git is owned by apache.  I assume your using
gitweb-caching as opposed to gitweb on fedora.  This is a fedora bug
though and should be filed on bugzilla.redhat.com

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 02/26/2010 01:32 PM, Brent Payne wrote:

quoted

plain text version

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brent Payne <redacted>
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Subject: gitweb trouble on fedora
To: git@vger.kernel.org


I'm new to about everything, but I've hit my head on the wall for a
couple of hours, went through the gitweb README and INSTALL, online
tutorial, everything.

I am having trouble getting gitweb running on a fedora box with apache.

The apache error is
[Fri Feb 26 13:21:25 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Fri Feb 26
13:21:25 2010] gitweb.cgi: Can't opendir(/var/cache/git): Permission
denied
[Fri Feb 26 13:21:25 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Fri Feb 26
13:21:25 2010] gitweb.cgi:  at /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi line 2432


Can anyone guess at what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Brent
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