Gitweb and HTTP transport for public repositories

07 Nov 2009 git

It took me some time to figure out how to get gitweb and (readonly) HTTP transport working for public Git repositories using the same URL. So here's my Apache 2 configuration, it may save you some time. The configuration assumes that your Git repositories are located under /srv/git and the gitweb files are installed in /usr/share/gitweb with the configuration file in /etc/gitweb.conf.

# Dumb transport clone URLs for public repositories
AliasMatch ^/git(/.*\.git)/HEAD$ /srv/git/$1/HEAD
AliasMatch ^/git(/.*\.git)/info(/.*)? /srv/git/$1/info$2
AliasMatch ^/git(/.*\.git)/objects(/.*)? /srv/git/$1/objects$2
AliasMatch ^/git(/.*\.git)/refs(/.*)? /srv/git/$1/refs$2
<Directory "/srv/git/*.git">
        AllowOverride None
        Options Indexes
        <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Limit>
        <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
                Order deny,allow
                Deny from all
        </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

# gitweb user interface
Alias /git /usr/share/gitweb
<Directory /usr/share/gitweb>
        SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gitweb.conf
        Options +ExecCGI
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
        DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^.* /git/gitweb.cgi/$0 [L,PT]
</Directory>