Yaws and gitweb

Gitweb is a CGI script for browsing git repositories.

On Debian you have /etc/gitweb.conf to look into. Assume you setup the file like this:

# - - - - - - - 
# path to git projects (<project>.git)
$projectroot = "/var/cache/git";

# directory to use for temp files
$git_temp = "/tmp";

# target of the home link on top of all pages
$home_link = "/gitweb";

# html text to include at home page
$home_text = "Tobbes Git Projects";

# file with project list; by default, simply scan the projectroot dir.
#$projects_list = $projectroot;

# stylesheet to use
$stylesheet = "/gitweb.css";

# logo to use
$logo = "/git-logo.png";

# the 'favicon'
$favicon = "/git-favicon.png";
# - - - - - - 

Make sure to copy the stylesheet and png’s to your Docroot top directory.

Then assume you configure your yaws.conf with:

# - - - - - - 
ebin_dir = YOUR_DIR_HERE/www/gitweb/ebin
...
# In the server block
  ...
  appmods = <gitweb , gitweb>
  ...
# - - - - - - 

Create a directory: …/www/gitweb and …/www/ebin. Compile the following Erlang code and put it under the ebin dir.

%%% - - - - - - 
-module(gitweb).
-export([out/1]).

%%% Compile:  erlc -I /usr/local/lib -o ebin gitweb.erl

-include_lib("yaws/include/yaws_api.hrl").

out(Arg) ->
   Pathinfo = Arg#arg.appmoddata,
   Env = [],
   yaws_cgi:call_cgi(Arg, undefined, script(), Pathinfo, Env).

script() ->
   "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi".
%%% - - - - - - - 

Check that the path to gitweb.cgi is correct.

Finally, in the /var/cache/gitweb directory, make a link pointing to you git project:

ln -s ~tobbe/git/eblog/.git /var/cache/git/eblog.git