From: john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)
Subject: Help with installing cgit
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:02:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131229120200.GE7608@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51123DD1BF2E03418A1296748DA7309274692C44@IBWMBX02>
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:37:00AM +0000, Shlomit Afgin wrote:
> On 12/29/13 12:18 PM, "John Keeping" <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >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
> >> <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/cgit/">
> >> AllowOverride None
> >> Options +ExecCGI
> >> Order allow,deny
> >> Allow from all
> >> </Directory>
> >> 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:
> >
> > <Location /cgit>
> > RewriteEngine on
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> > RewriteRule ^/var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgit(.*)
> >/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi$1 [L,PT]
> > </Location>
> >
> >This rewrites all requests under /cgit to go to the "cgit" program in
> >/cgi-bin/.
>
> I have /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi and when I go to
> http://server.domain/cgit/cgit.cgi,
> It try to open the file (and as where to save it) instead of run it.
Do you have a suitable "AddHandler" directive? The link I gave below
has a section on how to use ExecCGI and says you will need something
like this:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> >There is some more information on Apache's CGI support here [1].
> >
> >[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-29 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-29 8:46 shlomit.afgin
2013-12-29 10:18 ` john
2013-12-29 10:37 ` shlomit.afgin
2013-12-29 12:02 ` john [this message]
2013-12-29 14:00 ` shlomit.afgin
2013-12-29 15:13 ` john
2013-12-30 6:36 ` shlomit.afgin
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