GIT repository on Ubuntu
Contents
Software
We assume that apache is already installed.
apt install apache2-suexec-pristine gitweb git libcgi-session-perl
Git user creation
Create the group git
groupadd git
Enable git shell, if not listed on /etc/shells
cat /etc/shells # /etc/shells: valid login shells /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/rbash /bin/dash /usr/bin/tmux /usr/bin/screen echo "/usr/bin/git-shell" >> /etc/shells
Home directory creation
mkdir /opt/repositories/git
User creation
useradd -s /usr/bin/git-shell -g git -d /opt/repositories/git git id git uid=1001(git) gid=1001(git) groups=1001(git)
Change owner of home directory
chown git:git /opt/repositories/git/
Apache configuration
Sites configuration
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
We create the site 21_git.luniel.com
cat 21_git.luniel.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName git.luniel.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) https://git.luniel.com%{REQUEST_URI}
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName git.luniel.com
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;"
DocumentRoot "/var/www/git.luniel.com"
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/rigel.oamis.net.cer
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/rigel.oamis.net.key
SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/ca.cer
<Directory /opt/repositories/git/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Location / >
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AuthType Basic
AuthName "GIT Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>
SuexecUserGroup git git
ScriptAlias /git /var/www/sbin/git-http-backend-wrapper
ScriptAlias /gitweb.cgi /var/www/sbin/gitweb.cgi
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" combined
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_git.luniel.com_ssl.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_git.luniel.com_ssl.log
</VirtualHost>
Create document root
mkdir -p /var/www/git.luniel.com
Enable site
a2ensite 21_git.luniel.com
Enable module
a2enmod suexec cgi
Disable gitweb config
a2disconf gitweb
CGI
git-http-backend-wrapper file creation
cd /var/www/ mkdir sbin vi sbin/git-http-backend-wrapper #!/bin/bash PATH_INFO=$SCRIPT_URL GIT_PROJECT_ROOT=/opt/repositories/git REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER export GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL=true /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend
Copy gitweb cgi
cp /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi sbin/
Correct rights on sbin folder
chmod 755 ./sbin/git-http-backend-wrapper chown -R git:git sbin/
Static files
Copy static files for gitweb
cd /opt/repositories/git/ cp -r /usr/share/gitweb/static/ ./
Create index.html
cat index.html
<html>
<head>
<title>GIT Luniel Systems</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=white>
<table border="0" cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="images/Luniel_Systems.png" width="200px">
</td>
<td>
<h1>GIT Luniel Systems</h1>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>This server is for internal use only. </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://git.luniel.com/gitweb.cgi">GIT Web</a>.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Copy Logo
mkdir images cp /home/dany/Luniel_Systems.png images/
Configure gitweb.conf
Change line in file /etc/gitweb.conf
$projectroot = "/opt/repositories/git";
Start apache
systemctl start apache2
Create repository
cd /opt/repositories/git
git init --bare --shared=group log2mysql.git
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /opt/git/log2mysql.git/
chown -R git:git log2mysql.git/
cd log2mysql.git/
git config --file config http.receivepack true
cat config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = true
sharedrepository = 1
[receive]
denyNonFastforwards = true
[http]
receivepack = true
References
Daniel Simao (talk) 15:43, 21 September 2018 (EDT)
