From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:18:15 +0000
Subject: Help with installing cgit
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 08:46:37AM +0000, Shlomit Afgin wrote:
> I download from http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/refs/ the file cgit-0.9.2.tar.xz
> I follow the instruction in README:
> make get-git
> make
> make install
> Edit Apache conf file and add
>
> AllowOverride None
> Options +ExecCGI
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
>
> I also add alias:
> Alias /cgit /var/www/htdocs/cgit/
>
> When I go to http://server.domain/cgit I get the following error:
> You don't have permission to access /cgit/ on this server
> And In the error_log I get:
> Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/htdocs/cgit/
> I tried to add to 'Options' the +Indexes, So I get the list of the
> content but the cgit did not work.
The "cgit" program is a CGI executable that you need to run. Do you
have "cgit" in /var/www/htdocs/cgit/ ? If so, what happens if you go to
http://your.domain/cgit/cgit ?
I have the following in my Apache config for CGit:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgit(.*) /cgi-bin/cgit.cgi$1 [L,PT]
This rewrites all requests under /cgit to go to the "cgit" program in
/cgi-bin/.
There is some more information on Apache's CGI support here [1].
[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html
> Also I did not find instruction, how to set the file cgit.conf in
> order to change the place of cgit files location.
You can either specify CGIT_CONFIG in the environment under which CGit
runs (e.g. using Apache's "SetEnv" directive) or just change the default
when you build CGit by setting CGIT_CONFIG in the "cgit.conf" file
that's included by the makefile.
Hope this helps,
John