Sunday, August 19, 2012

The Procedure to setup GIT HTTP SERVER on Windows

 

 

Procedure of setting up git http server

 

Assumptions: you already have git and a bared git repository installed on the server

 

1.       install apache http server

2.       open conf/httpd.conf

a.       find line "#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf" and remove # mark from the begining of the line

3.  open conf/extra/http-vhosts.conf, input below lins

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName your_server_name

    DocumentRoot "your git repository path"

</VirtualHost>

 

it looks like below after finish

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName localhost

    DocumentRoot "G:/GIT/REMOTEHUB"

</VirtualHost>

 

4.       reopen conf/http.conf

a.       find below block

   <Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Order deny,allow

    Deny from all

   </Directory>

  

b.       add lines below after

<Directory "your git repository path">

    #

    # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",

    # or any combination of:

    #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

    #

    # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"

    # doesn't give it to you.

    #

    # The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see

    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options

    # for more information.

    #

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

 

    #

    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

    #

    AllowOverride All

 

    #

    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.

    #

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

 

</Directory>

 

5.       cd to your git repository directory and run below command

   git update-server-info

 

6.       start apache http server

7.       then you can clone git repository using belown sytac

git clone http://server/git_repository_directory