git on HTTP with gitolite and nginx
- by Arnaud
I am trying to setup a server where my git repo would be accessible with HTTP(S).
I am using gitolite and nginx (and gitlab for web interface but I doubt it makes any difference).
I have searched the whole afternoon and I think I'm stuck.
I have think I have understood that nginx needs fcgiwrap to work with gitolite, so I tried several configurations, but none of them work.
My repositories are at /home/git/repositories.
Here's the three nginx configurations I have tried.
1:
location ~ /git(/.*) {
gzip off;
root /usr/lib/git-core;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
include /etc/nginx/fcgiwrap.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/lib/git-core/;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME git-http-backend;
fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL "";
fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/git/repositories;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $1;
#fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
}
Result:
> git clone http://myservername/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
fatal: http://myservername/projectname.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
and
> git clone http://myservername/git/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
error: The requested URL returned error: 502 while accessing http://myservername/git/projectname.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
2:
location ~ /git(/.*) {
fastcgi_pass localhost:9001;
include /etc/nginx/fcgiwrap.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend;
fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL "";
fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/git/repositories;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $1;
}
Result:
> git clone http://myservername/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
fatal: http://myservername/projectname.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
and
> git clone http://myservername/git/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
error: The requested URL returned error: 502 while accessing http://myservername/git/projectname.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
3:
location ~ ^.*\.git/objects/([0-9a-f]+/[0-9a-f]+|pack/pack-[0-9a-f]+.(pack|idx))$ {
root /home/git/repositories/;
}
location ~ ^.*\.git/(HEAD|info/refs|objects/info/.*|git-(upload|receive)-pack)$ {
root /home/git/repositories;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $uri;
fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/git/repositories;
include /etc/nginx/fcgiwrap.conf;
}
Result:
> git clone http://myservername/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
error: The requested URL returned error: 502 while accessing http://myservername/projectname.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
and
> git clone http://myservername/git/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
error: The requested URL returned error: 502 while accessing http://myservername/git/projectname.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Also note that with any of those configurations, when I try to clone with a project name that actually doesn't exist, I get a 502 error.
Does anyone already succeeded in doing this? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
UPDATE:
nginx error log file said:
2012/04/05 17:34:50 [crit] 21335#0: *50 connect() to unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.12.201, server: myservername, request: "GET /git/oct_editor.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket:", host: "myservername"
So I changed permissions for /var/run/fcgiwrap.socket, and now I have :
> git clone http://myservername/git/projectname.git test/
Cloning into test...
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing http://myservername/git/projectname.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Here is the error.log file I have now:
2012/04/05 17:36:52 [error] 21335#0: *78 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Cannot chdir to script directory (/usr/lib/git-core/git/projectname.git/info)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.12.201, server: myservername, request: "GET /git/projectname.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket:", host: "myservername"
I keep on investigating.
