supplied .htaccess doesn't work when installed outside of DocRoot

[wdccdw]

When I install gitlist outside of the DocumentRoot, using an Alias, the supplied .htaccess results in a 404 for everything that is not a file. It works if I use the following RewriteRule instead:

RewriteRule ^ /gitlist/index.php [L]

[kulbirsaini]

Can you add these lines to your Apache config and try?

Alias /gitlist /var/www/gitlist/
<Directory /var/www/gitlist>
  AllowOverride All
</Directory>

[wdccdw]

Alas, I already had the above in my apache config.

[klaussilveira]

That's strange. Are you using default Apache website configuration? Where is GitList located? Can you provide a copy of your conf?

[xmganesh]

Ok that was fixed .
But a new one..
on browsing the repo I get ""Oops! fatal: Not a valid object name master""

[klaussilveira]

Is this a bare or non-bare repository? Is it private or public? If public, could you provide it for testing purposes?

[nifisher]

Does the apache user have read access to that folder and all of it's sub folders?

[xmganesh]

Hi Klaus,

We are actually testing whether it can be successsfully done. So the site
is not public.
Testing on some Virtual Machines.
By the way, how do you sujjest to setup the git server.?
We have setup git server with gitosis.
Will the GitList work with it.. Or is the error I am getting due to
the incompatability..???

Thanks and Regards

[klaussilveira]

I have never tested GitList with gitosis, but it shouldn't be incompatible since GitList is just a reader. It should work just fine with gitosis and gitolite (unless i'm doing something very wrong, which is possible).

Essentially, Apache's www-data user must have read-access to the folder where your repositories are located and, of course, your repositories as well.

[nifisher]

I'm running it with Gitolite, sir. Seems to work fine. I'm guessing that you are just going in via the file system, so Gitolite doesn't even come into play (as near as I can tell).

[xmganesh]

just awesome...
except that some times while trying to view the commit the page just shows on loading....
Anyway JUST loved it...
just like the github.....
HATS OFF TO You klaussilveira .. !!!

[xmganesh]

Hi Klaus,

Added mailed some modification sujjestions to contact@klaussilveira.com

thanks

[myano]

@xmganesh how did you end up fixing this?

[xmganesh]

@myano just check whether your repo directories have 'exec' permission.!!

[JonnyPower]

Nice, that rewrite rule solved it for me.