From 78646987e41967bb3533fae221205d73ea9af4d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:11:25 +0200 Subject: git-instaweb: Add support for running gitweb via 'plackup' PSGI is an interface between Perl web applications and web servers, and Plack is a Perl module and toolkit that contains PSGI middleware, helpers and adapters to web servers; see http://plackperl.org PSGI and Plack are inspired by Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack (and probably JavaScript's Jack/JSGI). Plack core distribution includes HTTP::Server::PSGI, a reference PSGI standalone web server implementation. 'plackup' is a command line launcher to run PSGI applications from command line, connecting web app to a web server via Plack::Runner module. By default it uses HTTP::Server::PSGI as a web server. git-instaweb generates gitweb.psgi wrapper (in $GIT_DIR/gitweb). This wrapper uses Plack::App::WrapCGI to compile gitweb.cgi (which is a CGI script) into a PSGI application using CGI::Compile and CGI::Emulate::PSGI. git-instaweb then runs this wrapper, using by default HTTP::Server::PSGI standalone Perl server, via Plack::Runner. The configuration for 'plackup' is currently embedded in generated gitweb.psgi wrapper, instead of using httpd.conf ($conf). To run git-instaweb with '--httpd=plackup', you need to have instaled Plack core, CGI::Emulate::PSGI, CGI::Compile. Those modules have to be available for Perl scripts (which can be done for example by setting PERL5LIB environment variable). This is currently not documented. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski Acked-by: Petr Baudis Acked-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-instaweb.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/git-instaweb.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt index a1f17df074..2c3c4d2994 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ OPTIONS The HTTP daemon command-line that will be executed. Command-line options may be specified here, and the configuration file will be added at the end of the command-line. - Currently apache2, lighttpd, mongoose and webrick are supported. + Currently apache2, lighttpd, mongoose, plackup and webrick are supported. (Default: lighttpd) -m:: -- cgit v1.2.3