How do I have to configure gitweb and gitolite so they'll work together?

Question

I am trying to make gitweb work with gitolite... but unsuccessful so far.
I am working on a RedHat Linux machine. A user called git exists.

gitolite

Answer 1

I recently set up gitolite and gitweb and found that /etc/gitweb.conf required very little configuration. What you have looks right to me. What are the permissions like on /home/git/repositories? You may find they are too restrictive. Try this out:

$ chmod -R 775 /home/git/repositories

That's what solved the issue for me, (though I imagine there's a more secure way to set up the permissions). If that works, I'd recommend just having a look into giving Apache (or whatever user account gitweb is being executed under) more fine-grained permissions over the repositories directory.

I also have this in my .gitolite.rc:

GIT_CONFIG_KEYS => 'gitweb\.(owner|description|category)',

so that the following works in /conf/gitolite.conf:

config gitweb.owner         =   owner name
config gitweb.description   =   some description
config gitweb.category      =   some category