Compatibility with etckeeper repository

[xpac1985]

I guess most of you know etckeeper - a Linux tool to keep /etc/ under version control.

Trying to use gitlist to show me that repository, I continously fail :)

Setting the repository directory to '/etc/' makes nginx log:

2015/03/09 23:07:53 [error] 32212#0: *28 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'There are no GIT repositories in /etc/' in /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Git/Client.php:42

Stack trace:
# 0 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Util/Routing.php(122): GitList\Git\Client->getRepositories(Array)
# 1 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Controller/MainController.php(48): GitList\Util\Routing->getRepositoryRegex()
# 2 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/vendor/silex/silex/src/Silex/Application.php(492): GitList\Controller\MainController->connect(Object(GitList\Application))
# 3 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/boot.php(7): Silex\Application->mount('', Object(GitList\Controller\MainController))
# 4 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/index.php(28): require('/var/www/murmel...')
# 5 {main}
 
  thrown in /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Git/Client.php on line 42" while reading response header from upstream, client: 37.24.156.207, server: subdomain.domain.net, request: "GET /gitlist/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "subdomain.domain.net"

Setting the repository directory to '/etc/.git/' makes nginx log:

2015/03/09 23:14:14 [error] 32212#0: *32 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'UnexpectedValueException' with message 'DirectoryIterator::__construct(/etc/.git/): failed to open dir: Permission denied' in /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Git/Client.php:58

Stack trace:
# 0 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Git/Client.php(58): DirectoryIterator->__construct('/etc/.git/')
# 1 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Git/Client.php(39): GitList\Git\Client->recurseDirectory('/etc/.git/')
# 2 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Util/Routing.php(122): GitList\Git\Client->getRepositories(Array)
# 3 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/src/GitList/Controller/MainController.php(48): GitList\Util\Routing->getRepositoryRegex()
# 4 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/vendor/silex/silex/src/Silex/Application.php(492): GitList\Controller\MainController->connect(Object(GitList\Application))
# 5 /var/www/subdomain.domain.net/gitlist/boot.php(7): Silex\Application->mount('', Object(GitList\Controll" while reading response header from upstream, client: 37.24.156.207, server: subdomain.domain.net, request: "GET /gitlist/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "subdomain.domain.net"

Any idea how this combination can be made work, or is this some kind of bug in GitList?

I can exclude the possibility that it is related to my nginx config, as it works fine when cloning some random repository from the web to a new folder.

Thanks a lot in advance

[Grinnz]

Are you running SELinux? Webservers should usually not need to read anything in /etc except their own config.

[xpac1985]

No SELinux, simply Debian Wheezy. Just to check if it helps, I chowned the /etc/.git/ folder to the group www-data (which nginx uses) - didn't help...
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, I'm still rather new to Linux...