gitweb- fatal: not a git repository

Question

So I have set up a simple server running debian stable (squeeze), and have configured git.
Using gitolite, I have all functionality (at least the basic clone/push/pull/commit) working.
Installation of gitweb went without any issues. However, when I access gitweb, I get a gitweb screen without any repos listed.

# tail -n 1 /var/log/apache2/error.log [DATE] [error] [client IP_ADDRESS] fatal: Not a git repository: '/var/lib/gitolite/repositories/testrepo.git' # cd /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/testrepo.git # ls branches config HEAD hooks info objects refs 

Here is what I see in /var/lib/gitolite/projects.list:

testrepo.git 

And in /etc/gitweb.conf:

# path to git projects (<project>.git) $projectroot = "/var/lib/gitolite/repositories"; # directory to use for temp files $git_temp = "/tmp"; # target of the home link on top of all pages #$home_link = $my_uri || "/"; # html text to include at home page $home_text = "indextext.html"; # file with project list; by default, simply scan the projectroot dir. $projects_list = "/var/lib/gitolite/projects.list"; # stylesheet to use $stylesheet = "gitweb.css"; # javascript code for gitweb $javascript = "gitweb.js"; # logo to use $logo = "git-logo.png"; # the 'favicon' $favicon = "git-favicon.png"; 

What is missing?

EDIT: Figured it out, when I had chmod'd the repository I had forgotten to add the -R switch! I changed the umask but this was not retroactive... and forgot that chmod would only change the directory and not any of the contents.

@VonC, thank you for your config. Though configuration wasn't the issue, I did get some good ideas beyond my very minimal current config. I'd vote you up, but I can't yet.

Answer 1

Here is my "gitweb-gitolite" configuration, hoping that may help you find what is missing in your configuration:

I have included my gitweb.conf.pl at then end of gitweb_config.perl (as mentioned in the gitolite doc) like so:

use lib ("."); require "gitweb.conf.pl"; 

Here is my gitweb.conf.pl, adapted from gitolite/contrib/gitweb/gitweb.conf:
(note that I have custom paths)

# -------------------------------------------- # Per-repo authorization based on gitolite ACL # Include this in gitweb.conf # See doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd for more info # please note that the author does not have personal experience with gitweb # and does not use it. Some testing may be required. Patches welcome but # please make sure they are tested against a "github" version of gitolite # and not an RPM or a DEB, for obvious reasons. # HOME of the gitolite user my $gl_home = $ENV{HOME} = "/home/mccprdg1"; # the following variables are needed by gitolite; please edit before using # this should normally not be anything else $ENV{GL_RC} = "$gl_home/.gitolite.rc"; # this can have different values depending on how you installed. # If you installed using the 'from-client' method it will be this: $ENV{GL_BINDIR} = "$gl_home/.gitolite/src"; # if you used RPM/DEB or "root" methods it **might** be this: #$ENV{GL_BINDIR} = "/usr/local/bin"; # if you used the "non-root" method it **might** be this: #$ENV{GL_BINDIR} = "$gl_home/bin"; # If in doubt take a look at ~/.ssh/authorized_keys; at least one of the lines # might contain something like: # command="/home/git/.gitolite/src/gl-auth-command # and you should use whatever directory the gl-auth-command is in (in this # example /home/git/.gitolite.src) # finally the user name $ENV{GL_USER} = $cgi->remote_user || "gitweb"; # now get gitolite stuff in... unshift @INC, $ENV{GL_BINDIR}; require gitolite_rc; gitolite_rc -> import; require gitolite; gitolite -> import; # set project root etc. absolute paths $ENV{GL_REPO_BASE_ABS} = ( $REPO_BASE =~ m(^/) ? $REPO_BASE : "$gl_home/$REPO_BASE" ); $projects_list = $projectroot = $ENV{GL_REPO_BASE_ABS}; $export_auth_hook = sub { my $repo = shift; # gitweb passes us the full repo path; so we strip the beginning # and the end, to get the repo name as it is specified in gitolite conf return unless $repo =~ s/^\Q$projectroot\E\/?(.+)\.git$/$1/; # check for (at least) "R" permission my ($perm, $creator) = &repo_rights($repo); return ($perm =~ /R/); }; 

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As mentioned in the admin doc, my .gitolite.rc file contains:

$PROJECTS_LIST = $ENV{HOME} . "/projects.list"; 

, which references the same reponames.git repositories than the ones present in the directory $projects_list defined in the gitweb.conf.pl ($projects_list being equals to $gl_home/repositories):

> grep REPO_BASE * gitweb.conf.pl:$ENV{GL_REPO_BASE_ABS} = ( $REPO_BASE =~ m(^/) ? $REPO_BASE : "$gl_home/$REPO_BASE" ); gitweb.conf.pl:$projects_list = $projectroot = $ENV{GL_REPO_BASE_ABS}; 

REPO_BASE being defined in the .gitolite.rc file:

> grep REPO_BA .gitolite* .gitolite.rc:$REPO_BASE="repositories";