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Hello,

Is it possible to have gitweb show all repositories in /path/to/wherever and also show some other repositories at particular locations like /home/user/git/repo1 and /home/user2/git/repo2 ? Or better yet, scan multiple dirs? Currently I can only see how to do one or the other within a single gitweb installation. I suppose I could run two of them...

Thanks for the help.

- -Mike
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Quoted 5 lines · Mike.lifeguard

Is it possible to have gitweb show all repositories in /path/to/wherever and also show some other repositories at particular locations like /home/user/git/repo1 and /home/user2/git/repo2 ? Or better yet, scan multiple dirs? Currently I can only see how to do one or the other within a single gitweb installation. I suppose I could run two of them...

It is not possible with $projects_list being directory (or undefined, which means to take $projectroot), but I think it is possible with $projects_list being a file.

You would have to set $projectroot to common prefix (it might be empty, i.e. '' if there is no common prefix), then list there all repositories, relative to $projectroot. See gitweb/README and gitweb/INSTALL, and comments in gitweb.perl for details on file format.

P.S. It probably be a good idea to have something like mod_userdir, but gitweb currently doesn't support something like that.

P.P.S. Alternate solution would be to try to work around it with automount / autofs or something like that.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Quoted 19 lines · Jakub Narebski
Quoted 5 lines · Mike.lifeguard

Is it possible to have gitweb show all repositories in /path/to/wherever and also show some other repositories at particular locations like /home/user/git/repo1 and /home/user2/git/repo2 ? Or better yet, scan multiple dirs? Currently I can only see how to do one or the other within a single gitweb installation. I suppose I could run two of them...

It is not possible with $projects_list being directory (or undefined, which means to take $projectroot), but I think it is possible with $projects_list being a file.

You would have to set $projectroot to common prefix (it might be empty, i.e. '' if there is no common prefix), then list there all repositories, relative to $projectroot. See gitweb/README and gitweb/INSTALL, and comments in gitweb.perl for details on file format.

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P.S. It probably be a good idea to have something like mod_userdir, but gitweb currently doesn't support something like that.

I had the same problematic some times ago. I wanted to have several project's roots folder for gitweb (one for each unix user of the server).

You can find the discussion here :

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/132926/
http://marc.info/?t=125827961600002&r=1&w=2

Here the configuration I used :

/etc/gitweb.conf :

$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/var/gitweb";

/etc/apache2/sites-available/yourvirtualhost :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]

I.E. :

http://yourvirtualhost/ will have /var/gitweb as proeject root
http://yourvirtualhost/~<user>/ will have /home/<users>/gitweb as proeject root

You can modify the rewrite rule to match what you want to do.

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P.P.S. Alternate solution would be to try to work around it with automount / autofs or something like that.

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Sylvain Rabot <[email protected]>
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Quoted 34 lines · Sylvain Rabot
Quoted 10 lines · Jakub Narebski
Quoted 5 lines · Mike.lifeguard

Is it possible to have gitweb show all repositories in /path/to/wherever and also show some other repositories at particular locations like /home/user/git/repo1 and /home/user2/git/repo2 ? Or better yet, scan multiple dirs? Currently I can only see how to do one or the other within a single gitweb installation. I suppose I could run two of them...

P.S. It probably be a good idea to have something like mod_userdir, but gitweb currently doesn't support something like that.

I had the same problematic some times ago. I wanted to have several project's roots folder for gitweb (one for each unix user of the server).

You can find the discussion here :

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/132926/
http://marc.info/?t=125827961600002&r=1&w=2

Here the configuration I used :

/etc/gitweb.conf :

$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/var/gitweb";

/etc/apache2/sites-available/yourvirtualhost :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]

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I.E. :

http://yourvirtualhost/ will have /var/gitweb as proeject root
http://yourvirtualhost/~<user>/ will have /home/<users>/gitweb as proeject root

You can modify the rewrite rule to match what you want to do.

Would you mind writing it up and adding it as an example in gitweb/README? If you don't have time, I can try to do this myself in my free time.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Quoted 37 lines · Jakub Narebski
Quoted 36 lines · Sylvain Rabot
Quoted 10 lines · Jakub Narebski
Quoted 5 lines · Mike.lifeguard

Is it possible to have gitweb show all repositories in /path/to/wherever and also show some other repositories at particular locations like /home/user/git/repo1 and /home/user2/git/repo2 ? Or better yet, scan multiple dirs? Currently I can only see how to do one or the other within a single gitweb installation. I suppose I could run two of them...

P.S. It probably be a good idea to have something like mod_userdir, but gitweb currently doesn't support something like that.

I had the same problematic some times ago. I wanted to have several project's roots folder for gitweb (one for each unix user of the server).

You can find the discussion here :

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/132926/
http://marc.info/?t=125827961600002&r=1&w=2

Here the configuration I used :

/etc/gitweb.conf :

$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/var/gitweb";

/etc/apache2/sites-available/yourvirtualhost :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
[QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/gitweb/,L,PT]

I.E. :

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http://yourvirtualhost/ will have /var/gitweb as proeject root
http://yourvirtualhost/~<user>/ will have /home/<users>/gitweb as proeject root

You can modify the rewrite rule to match what you want to do.

Would you mind writing it up and adding it as an example in gitweb/README? If you don't have time, I can try to do this myself in my free time.

Not at all. I will try to make it the more understandable possible and I will send you the patch.

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Sylvain Rabot <[email protected]>
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PATCH 1/1 gitweb multiple project roots documentation

In reply to Jakub Narebski

This commit adds in the gitweb/README file a description of how to use gitweb with several project roots using apache virtualhost rewrite rules.

Signed-off-by Sylvain Rabot <[email protected]>
---
 gitweb/README |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
gitweb/README +64 -3
index 6c2c8e1..2e55d38 100644
@@ -312,12 +312,16 @@ If you want to have one URL for both gitweb and your http://
 repositories, you can configure apache like this:
 
 <VirtualHost *:80>
-    ServerName git.example.org
-    DocumentRoot /pub/git
-    SetEnv	GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
+    ServerName		git.example.org
+    DocumentRoot	/pub/git
+    SetEnv			GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
+
+    # turning on mod rewrite
     RewriteEngine on
+
     # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
     RewriteRule ^/$  /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
+
     # make access for "dumb clients" work
     RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
 </VirtualHost>

@@ -343,6 +347,63 @@ something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
   $home_link = "/";
 
 
+Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
+virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
+
+virtual host configuration :
+
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    ServerName			git.example.org
+    DocumentRoot		/pub/git
+    SetEnv				GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
+
+    # turning on mod rewrite
+    RewriteEngine on
+
+    # make the front page an internal rewrite to the gitweb script
+    RewriteRule ^/$ 		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,L,PT]
+
+    # look for a public_git folder in unix users' home
+    # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
+    RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+    # http://git.example.org/+<user>/
+    #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+    # http://git.example.org/user/<user>/
+    #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+
+    # defined list of project roots
+    RewriteRule ^/scm(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/pub/scm/,L,PT]
+    RewriteRule ^/var(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$		/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/var/git/,L,PT]
+
+    # make access for "dumb clients" work
+    RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(HEAD|info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI}  [L,PT]
+</VirtualHost>
+
+gitweb.conf configuration :
+
+$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
+
+These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (<user>) of the
+server will be able to browse through gitweb git repositories found in
+~/public_git/ with the following url : http://git.example.org/~<user>/
+
+If you do not want this feature on your server just remove the second rewrite rule.
+
+If you already use mod_userdir in your virtual host or you don't want to use 
+the '~' as first character just comment or remove the second rewrite rule and 
+uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
+
+Second, repositories found in /pub/scm/ and /var/git/ will be accesible
+through http://git.example.org/scm/ and http://git.example.org/var/.
+You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like the
+third and the fourth.
+
+
 PATH_INFO usage
 -----------------------
 If you enable PATH_INFO usage in gitweb by putting
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PATCH 1/1 gitweb readme fixed regarding per user project root repository

In reply to Sylvain Rabot

the RewriteRule involving the '+' character is not working as it is replaced by a space in urls when you click on links.

Signed-off-by Sylvain Rabot <[email protected]>
---
 gitweb/README |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
gitweb/README +6 -6
index ad6a04c..2acf595 100644
@@ -347,18 +347,18 @@ something like the following in your gitweb.conf (or gitweb_config.perl) file:
   $home_link = "/";
 
 
-Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root
+Webserver configuration with multiple projects roots
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
-If you want to use gitweb with several project roots you can edit your apache
-virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
+If you want to use gitweb with several projects roots then you can edit your
+apache virtual host and gitweb.conf configuration files like this :
 
 virtual host configuration :
 
 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName			git.example.org
     DocumentRoot		/pub/git
-    SetEnv				GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
+    SetEnv			GITWEB_CONFIG	/etc/gitweb.conf
 
     # turning on mod rewrite
     RewriteEngine on

@@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ virtual host configuration :
     # http://git.example.org/~<user>/
     RewriteRule ^/\~([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
 
-    # http://git.example.org/+<user>/
-    #RewriteRule ^/\+([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
+    # http://git.example.org/u/<user>/
+    #RewriteRule ^/u/([^\/]+)(/|/gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
 
     # http://git.example.org/user/<user>/
     #RewriteRule ^/user/([^\/]+)/(gitweb.cgi)?$	/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi [QSA,E=GITWEB_PROJECTROOT:/home/$1/public_git/,L,PT]
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