[Fusionforge-general] gitweb.list being overwritten

Mavin Martin mavinmartin at gmail.com
Thu May 10 18:40:09 CEST 2012 

Hi Mark,

First of all, I just realized that this wasn't being posted on the general-discussions forum so I just added  fusion forge as a CC for anyone else that might experience this problem. :)

This is the error that is popping up when I try to check out the git repository:

git clone http://mavin@forge2.sci.utah.edu/git/testf2/testf2.git
Cloning into 'testf2'...
Password: 
error: The requested URL returned error: 500 while accessing http://mavin@forge2.sci.utah.edu/git/testf2/testf2.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

I was getting the ssl certificate error before but I set the variable use_ssl=false just to make sure git works first.  I also  set GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true inside of the project testf2.git which has no effect now but will probably fix some issues when changing it back to ssl safe. :)  I also just set SSH_ASKPASS="".

Here is the contents of my plugin-scmgit.conf which was what I forwarded to you in the last email:

ScriptAlias /git "/var/lib/gforge/chroot/scmrepos/git"
<Directory /usr/share/gforge/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin>
  SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gforge/plugins/scmgit/gitweb.conf
  Options +ExecCGI
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
</Directory>

<Location /git>
          Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes
          ErrorDocument 404 default
          AuthType Basic
          AuthName "Git Repository"
          AuthUserFile /var/lib/gforge/svnroot-authfile
          Require valid-user
</Location>

Is this what you were looking for?  I also found another configuration file called gitweb which says:

Alias /gitweb /usr/share/gitweb

<Directory /usr/share/gitweb>
  Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>

Thanks for your help,
Mavin


On May 10, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Taylor, Mark J. wrote:

> Hi Mavin
>  
> Yes. My scmgit file looks very similar to yours.  Exactly what http error are you getting?  Can you forward me the text of that error?
>  
> By the way, I found that I have to set the export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true in my linux shell to get around the http ssl error I was receiving. Another thing I had to do was export SSH_ASKPASS=””.  I’m not sure exactly why I have to do this but I found that I kept the git clone from hanging.
>  
> So on my Redhat system, there’s a package named gitweb that creates a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ named git.conf. I had to make some changes there as well.  Send me the text of that file and I’ll see if it’s similar to mine.
>  
> Git is nice but it’s not a simple task to get the setup right. I was banging my head for some time trying to get things working.
>  
> Later.
> Mark
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> From: Mavin Martin [mailto:mavinmartin at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:31 PM
> To: Taylor, Mark J.
> Subject: Re: [Fusionforge-general] gitweb.list being overwritten
>  
> Hey Mark,
>  
> That's exactly what I would like to do.  I just transferred the system to https:// rather than git+ssh://.
>  
> My scmgit file looks like the following:
>  
> ScriptAlias /git "/var/lib/gforge/chroot/scmrepos/git" # this is the directory containing the git projects
> <Directory /usr/share/gforge/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin> # cgi-bin only contains gitweb.cgi
>   SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG /etc/gforge/plugins/scmgit/gitweb.conf
>   Options +ExecCGI
>   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>   DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
> </Directory>
>  
> <Location /git>
>           Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes
>           ErrorDocument 404 default
>           AuthType Basic
>           AuthName "Git Repository"
>           AuthUserFile /var/lib/gforge/svnroot-authfile
>           Require valid-user
> </Location>
>  
> When I try to clone a git repository, it gives me Http Request Failed.  Server Error.  It seems to pass the authentication correctly.  Does your configuration look something like this?
>  
> Thanks,
> Mavin
>  
> On May 9, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Taylor, Mark J. wrote:
> 
> 
> Greetings Mavin
>  
> Good question. I think you have two options.First you could set an alias and Location in the plugin-scmgit.conf file  or what I did was just create a symlink at the root directory pointing from /var/lib/gforge/chroot/scmrepost/git to /git.  You will need sudo or root privs to create the symlink.
>  
> My git url are now much shorter and look like this: git clonehttps://username@hostname.domain/git/reponame/gitrepo.git
>  
> It took me few hours to figure the whole git configuration out but it works great now.   I’m no expert at git, svn or fusion but I’d glad to help in any way I can.
>  
> Good luck!
> Mark
>  
>  
> From: Mavin Martin [mailto:mavinmartin at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:35 PM
> To: Taylor, Mark J.
> Subject: Re: [Fusionforge-general] gitweb.list being overwritten
>  
> Thanks for responding Mark.  I have another question regarding the same thing.  I notice that the entire path of the directory is showing.  Is your system set-up the same way where it shows the entire path /var/lib/gforge/chroot/scmrepos/git/...?  Below is how it wants the user to clone the git repository showing the entire path.
>  
> git clonegit+ssh://admin@fusionforge.org//var/lib/gforge/chroot/scmrepos/git/testf2/testf2.git
>  
> Thanks,
> Mavin
>  
> On May 8, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Taylor, Mark J. wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Mavin
>  
> I don’t why you’re git conf would keep getting overwritten but I can share with you my git setup.  I’m running fusion on Redhat linux 5.7. In order to get GIT working, I had to symlink GIT files into the /usr/share/gforge/src/plugins/scmgit/www directory from /usr/share/gitweb.
>  
> Here’s what my scmgit/www directory looks like:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   41 Apr 25 15:56 git-favicon.png -> /usr/share/gitweb/static/git-favicon.png
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   38 Apr 25 15:56 git-logo.png -> //usr/share/gitweb/static/git-logo.png
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 Apr 25 14:47 gitweb.css -> /usr/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.css
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 Apr 25 14:47 gitweb.js -> /usr/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.js
>  
> I also had to create a cgi-bin symlink in /usr/share/gforge/src/plugins/scmgit like this:
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   18 Apr 26 08:36 cgi-bin -> /usr/share/gitweb/
>  
> I hope this helps.
> Mark
>  
>  
>  
> From: fusionforge-general-bounces at lists.fusionforge.org [mailto:fusionforge-general-bounces at lists.fusionforge.org] On Behalf Of Mavin Martin
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 6:13 PM
> To: fusionforge-general at lists.fusionforge.org
> Subject: [Fusionforge-general] gitweb.list being overwritten
>  
> I've been playing around with SCM-GIT because the paths are not setup correctly on the initial build of Fusionforge on the Ubuntu 11.10 Linux Server.  I modified some paths inside of /etc/gforge/plugins/scmgit/gitweb.conf.  Many of the issues are fixed when modifying paths in this file.  About 10 minutes later, it seems as though something in cronjobs is overwriting the file back to its normal form.  Does anyone know where the actual file to set parameters of link locations like $logo = 'https://fusionforge.org/plugins/scmgit/git-logo.png' is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Mavin ~m3
> 

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