Local Development Configuration with Git repositories

Question

I have my local environment configured with VirtualDocumentRoot directive. My virtual host config looks as following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName dev
 ServerAlias *.dev
 UseCanonicalName Off
 VirtualDocumentRoot "/var/www/html/%1/www"
 <Directory "/var/www/html/%1/web">
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 AllowOverride All
 Allow from All
 </Directory>
 # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert, emerg
 LogLevel warn
 LogFormat "%{Host}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
 CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon
 ErrorLog logs/error_log
 Alias /info/ "/var/www/html/info.php"
 Alias /info "/var/www/html/info.php"
</VirtualHost>

So basically I put files into sample-project/www directory. Now wondering how should I merge this configuration and this approach with Git repositories.

I'm using gitweb to share my repos on my local LAN network. However, when the directory is sample-project gitweb shows it as sample-project/.git, but when I change directory name to sample-project.git it looks as I want.

I know some of more advanced users may think it's really stupid question, but this is quite important for me. I just started learning good practices, have new environment and want to know good advices.

And ideas?

Answer 1

If you want to use gitweb, you need to call the gitweb.cgi script of your gitweb installation.

You will find in my Apache httpd.conf an example of such a config (with SSL and LDAP authentication that you can ignore)

DocumentRoot /home/auser/compileEverything/gitweb
Alias /git /home/auser/compileEverything/gitweb
<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
 SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</FilesMatch>
<Directory /home/auser/compileEverything/gitweb>
</Directory>

You would then configure your gitweb (like for instance, explained here), and your gitweb.conf (as shown here for example).

• DaveW: Thanks for the reply. Just wondering, what structure of directories would you recommend for efficient management?
• VonC: @DaveW: by structure of directories, are you referring to the directories declared in the httpd.conf, or the directories where the git repos are stored, or the directories within a Git repo data?
• DaveW: Just everything. I'm completely lost with all the configuration stuff right now. I'm storing all my projects in /var/www/html/ directory. VirtualDocumentRoot directive allows me to use virtual subdomains however I'm wondering how I should store Git repos with this structure. Any suggestion will be really appreciated.
• VonC: @DaveW: when using in conjunction with GitWeb, the simplest structure is the best: you just need all your repos within one root directory, and you would reference that in your gitweb.conf as mentioned in gofedora.com/how-to-install-configure-gitweb. This is very different from the VirtualDocumentRoot: a DocumentRoot is enough and reference gitweb, not the Git repos.
• DaveW: Thanks for your time. Last question, if you don'y mind: please clarify, I do not have to store my repositories in my projects directory tree, am I right? Could I store repos in /var/www/git/ and projects in /var/www/html/? Every file changed is being uploaded into my remote machine. Would it be correct? Once again, thanks for your replies and effort!