I am trying to set up git on my Debian server. However, I'm going crazy about this Smart HTTP stuff, as I want to use the Egit plug-in for eclipse and it requires Smart HTTP. And for this reason I'm unable to push my local branch to the remote repository on my server. I have installed Apache and Git 1.7.2.3. I'm using Basic Authentication and have enabled mod_cgi
, mod_env
and mod_alias
. My apache config file for the git stuff is located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/git
and has about the following contents:
<VirtualHost *:80>
Servername git.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/git
SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/git/
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/
<Directory "/var/git">
DAV On
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
Deny from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "git repository"
AuthUserFile /var/git/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /var/git/.htgroup
</Directory>
<Directory /var/git/allternative>
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
Require group allternative
</Directory>
<Directory "/usr/lib/git-core/git-receive-pack">
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
Require group allternative
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
The diretories are the following:
/var/git
: This is the directory where all my repositories will be/var/git/allternative
: This is the directory where the (bare) repository lies that I'm currently trying to set upI did everything that I read on this article (and many others saying about the same): http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html
I still get the error from Egit that remote Smart HTTP is not enabled. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance, Andreas
Answering my own question:
I replaced the ScriptAlias
directive with this:
ScriptAliasMatch \
"(?x)^/(.*/(HEAD | \
info/refs | \
objects/(info/[^/]+ | \
[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \
pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \
git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
"/usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/$1"
And Also added the following directive:
SetEnv REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER
Then it worked. I found those two settings on http://www.espace.com.eg/blog/2010/11/10/migrating-from-subversion-to-git/ and I'm not exactly sure which one of the two solved the problem, but I assume it was the SetEnv REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER
directive.