Gitweb installation in 5 minutes

Posted by Himadri
November 15, 2008

I couldn’t really find an easy tutorial on getting Gitweb to work on a Mac, so I decided to write one.

The end result should be an interface like the one for the Linux Kernel.

Here are the steps that I used:

  1. Download the Git source. Gitweb comes with it.
  2. Unzip, and cd to the just downloaded source directory.
  3. Copy the files gitweb/git-logo.png, gitweb/git-favicon.png, gitweb/gitweb.css to a directory that your webserver can see. For example, on a Mac, someplace under ~/Sites/, say ~/Sites/gitweb.
  4. Enter:


    5. make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT=”<user dir>/scm” \
    GITWEB_CSS=”<user dir>/Sites/gitweb/gitweb.css” \
    GITWEB_LOGO=”<user dir>/Sites/gitweb/git-logo.png” \
    GITWEB_FAVICON=”<user dir>/Sites/gitweb/git-favicon.png” \
    bindir=/usr/local/git/bin/ gitweb/gitweb.cgi

    Where:
    GITWEB_PROJECTROOT : is the directory that contains your git repository(s)
    GITWEB_CSS etc. : is where you copied the files in step 3
    bindir : is the directory that contains the git executable.

  5. Copy the newly created gitweb/gitweb.cgi to your cgi script directory, on the Mac the defaulit one is /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executable.

Now if you point your browswer to the gitweb.cgi file (e.g. “http://<host name>/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi”), you should see the nice web interface in action.

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