Re: Setting up a Git server (+ gitweb) with .htaccess files HOWTO

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

I've set up a Git server on a machine on which I have a webspace,
permission to run CGI scripts, but no shell or root access. Good news:
it worked :-).

I've documented the process here in case anyone's interested:

  http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/?Host-a-Git-repository-over-HTTP-S

After seeing the section that runs "git init" in a throw-away CGI script,
I started wondering what the point of this site in forbidding a shell
access in the first place.

After all, if you changed that example with a script that feeds its input
to a shell, you would have enough "shell access" to do anything you need.

So...

Well, my reaction at this point was "why bother?", but then I realized
that that reaction is meant for the administrator of that hosting site,
not a user of that site, i.e. you.

Thanks for an amusing read, anyway.