Allowing Read-Only Access To A Git Repository Via HTTP
Today I thought about a way to easily distribute an Ansible playbook. I thought about having a tgz file somewhere but I wanted read only access through HTTP in case I wanted to update clients that have already downloaded the content.
The easiest solution I have found was using cgit. Simply run it with nginx and fcgiwrap.
1server {
2 listen 80;
3 server_name git.example.com;
4 root /usr/local/www/cgit;
5 try_files $uri @cgit;
6
7 location @cgit {
8 include fastcgi_params;
9 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/cgit.cgi;
10 fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $uri;
11 fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $args;
12 fastcgi_param HTTP_HOST $server_name;
13 fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock;
14 }
15 }
1#/etc/rc.conf
2fcgiwrap_socket_owner=www
3fcgiwrap_user="www"
4fcgiwrap_enable="YES"
1#/usr/local/etc/cgitrc
2#
3# cgit config
4#
5
6css=/cgit.css
7logo=/cgit.png
8
9# if you do not want that webcrawler (like google) index your site
10robots=noindex, nofollow
11
12# if cgit messes up links, use a virtual-root. For example has cgit.example.org/ this value:
13virtual-root=/
14
15# Use the following to scan for repositories in a folder
16# scan-path=/usr/local/www/
17
18repo.url=MyRepo
19repo.path=/usr/local/www/git
20repo.desc=This is my git repository
