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| author | Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> | 2006-10-04 01:48:46 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-04 10:58:38 +0400 |
| commit | 604cb211a9b5401b265d1c1ca3d57dad243e7260 (patch) | |
| tree | 212edb7513e3aeb9d5752c9200e955d927319480 /gitweb/README | |
| parent | 128eead19821ba18e2912ebf30e5621d08735e79 (diff) | |
Update the gitweb/README file to include setting the GITWEB_CONFIG environment
Signed-off-by: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'gitweb/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | gitweb/README | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gitweb/README b/gitweb/README index 61c7ab5d4b..78e6fc05f3 100644 --- a/gitweb/README +++ b/gitweb/README @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ repositories, you can configure apache like this: DocumentRoot /pub/git RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*\.git/(?!/?(info|objects|refs)).*)?$ /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] + SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf </VirtualHost> The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under @@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ both as cloneable GIT URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then start your git-daemon with --base-path=/pub/git --export-all then you can even use the git:// URL with exactly the same path. +Setting the environment variable GITWEB_CONFIG will tell gitweb to use +the named file (i.e. in this example /etc/gitweb.conf) as a +configuration for gitweb. Perl variables defined in here will +override the defaults given at the head of the gitweb.perl (or +gitweb.cgi). Look at the comments in that file for information on +which variables and what they mean. Originally written by: |