Comments on: Lighttpd and gitweb

By: Pietro

Pietro — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:34:37 +0000

Adam’s way works for me!
Thank you guys!

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:05:45 +0000

Thanks Adam!

For whatever reason when I set this up before I couldn’t get it to work like that. But I’ll definitely give this a try, since it would be nice to have automatic upgrades.

By: Adam Nielsen

Adam Nielsen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:18:46 +0000

Just tried to do this too, based on your instructions I came up with a lighttpd configuration that doesn’t require any editing of the gitweb Perl script:

url.redirect += ( “^/gitweb$” => “/gitweb/” )
alias.url += ( “/gitweb/” => “/usr/share/git/gitweb/” )
$HTTP["url"] =~ “^/gitweb/” {
cgi.assign = (“.cgi” => “”)
server.indexfiles = (“gitweb.cgi”)
}

All the gitweb files are in /usr/share/git/gitweb/ which is where my distro puts them (and if I avoid copying them I get upgrades handled automatically.)