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DWStrauss
January 29th, 2009, 09:54 PM
Does anyone have any experience getting browsing of a git repository to work on Ubuntu?

I have a fairly generic Ubuntu 8.04 installation, with an Apache2 web server installed (and running). I'd like to get the server to serve up a git repository I have on the machine but I'm having problems getting it to work. gitweb is installed (downloaded from the Ubuntu apt repository), and I've got git-daemon running. /etc/gitweb.conf has the following defines $projectroot to be /var/cache/git, so I added an alias to that in my Apache2 setup (in other words, http://my.machine.name/git should serve up /var/cache/git). So what's the next step? Do I need to put some sort of html or php or ??? file in /var/cache/git ? If so, what should it be?

For reference, assume the repository I want to be able to browse is in /users/myname/git_tree/. How do I get this set up?

Thanks.

Cwolly
March 31st, 2009, 02:18 AM
I know this is an old post, but since no one answered. This is what helped me get gitweb straight. Great article

http://vafer.org/blog/20080115011320