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Sunny
Asked: 2011-10-12 04:44:19 +0800 CST

git repository with apache on ubuntu server only .git paths

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I have an ubuntu server, running apache2. I'm trying to set it to serve git repository over http.

After reading tens of samples, I ended with very simplified config file, removing all of the authentication for simplicity.

My git_conf file in conf.d looks like this:

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /srv/repos/git/
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL

ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/

<Location /git>
</Location>

I created an empty git repository like this:

# git --bare init myrepo
# cd myrepo
# git --bare update-server-info
# cd ..
# chown -R www-data:www-data myrepo

Now, the fun begins. I was able to clone the repo on the local machine:

# cd ~/tmp
# git clone /my/repo/path/myrepo test1

But, whenever I try to clone from a remote machine like this:

$ git clone http://myserver/git/myrepo test1

I receive:

fatal: http://cfs-int-redmine/git/iosdemo/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

If on the server I create a symlink to the repo like:

# ln -s myrepo myrepo.git

And then I try to clone http://myserver/git/myrepo.git, it works.

So, what's going on? Should I aways use ".git" in order to be able to use the repository? How do I make it to work without .git?

ubuntu apache-2.2 git

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Typically any hosting will use the .git suffix. From a technical standpoint I wouldn't have expected it to be required, but it's a pretty ingrained standard at this point, and your own testing seems to verify that git does enforce this. The .git suffix on the directory name marks the directory as a git bare repository, similar to how the .git folder is used to store the git repository info in a non-bare repository.

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  2. Another solution to this problem is also making 100% sure that your ScriptAlias points to the correct git-http-backend location.

    SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /data/git/
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
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