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1GIT web Interface
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4From the git version 1.4.0 gitweb is bundled with git.
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7Build time gitweb configuration
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9There are many configuration variables which affect building gitweb (among
10others creating gitweb.cgi out of gitweb.perl by replacing placeholders such
11as `++GIT_BINDIR++` by their build-time values).
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13Building and installing gitweb is described in gitweb's INSTALL file
14(in 'gitweb/INSTALL').
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16
17Runtime gitweb configuration
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19Gitweb obtains configuration data from the following sources in the
20following order:
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221. built-in values (some set during build stage),
232. common system-wide configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON`,
24 defaults to '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
253. either per-instance configuration file (`GITWEB_CONFIG`, defaults to
26 'gitweb_config.perl' in the same directory as the installed gitweb),
27 or if it does not exists then system-wide configuration file
28 (`GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM`, defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf').
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30Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
31in above sequence.
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33You can read defaults in system-wide GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM from GITWEB_CONFIG
34by adding
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36 read_config_file($GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM);
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38at very beginning of per-instance GITWEB_CONFIG file. In this case
39settings in said per-instance file will override settings from
40system-wide configuration file. Note that read_config_file checks
41itself that the $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM file exists.
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43The most notable thing that is not configurable at compile time are the
44optional features, stored in the '%features' variable.
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46Ultimate description on how to reconfigure the default features setting
47in your `GITWEB_CONFIG` or per-project in `project.git/config` can be found
48as comments inside 'gitweb.cgi'.
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50See also gitweb.conf(5) manpage.
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53Web server configuration
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55Gitweb can be run as CGI script, as legacy mod_perl application (using
56ModPerl::Registry), and as FastCGI script. You can find some simple examples
57in "Example web server configuration" section in INSTALL file for gitweb (in
58gitweb/INSTALL).
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60See "Webserver configuration" and "Advanced web server setup" sections in
61gitweb(1) manpage.
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64AUTHORS
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66Originally written by:
67 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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