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) .