Comments on phil.sergi.blog: gitweb + apache + gentoo

Don't forget to mention that (nowadays?) you n...

2011-04-11T08:28:30.933-07:00

Don't forget to mention that (nowadays?) you need to set a USE flag to install a CGI handler for Apache. By default it will just echo your CGI script's content.

To do this:
edit /etc/make.conf
Add "cgid" or "cgi" (depending on your MPM) to the APACHE2_MODULES= directive.

'emerge apache' to rebuild
'/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate the changes, enjoy!

Thanks Phil! That's exactly what I was looking...

2010-07-23T14:21:08.169-07:00

Thanks Phil! That's exactly what I was looking for.

the gitweb ebuild is now hard masked and i updated...

2008-06-08T20:11:00.000-07:00

the gitweb ebuild is now hard masked and i updated the post to just use git now.

Sure, if it's current... hopefully gitweb hasn't c...

2008-05-16T11:20:00.000-07:00

Sure, if it's current... hopefully gitweb hasn't changed between 1.5.4.2 and 1.5.5.1.

this is exactly what the gitweb ebuild does, i jus...

2008-05-14T21:04:00.000-07:00

this is exactly what the gitweb ebuild does, i just feel it is a cleaner install.

The newer versions of git install gitweb with USE=...

2008-05-13T23:53:00.000-07:00

The newer versions of git install gitweb with USE="perl cgi" -- it goes into /usr/share/git/gitweb, so you need to add that directory to apache instead of installing the separate gitweb package.