git-http-backend

How to set up git over http?

First it is necessary to understand that there are 2 components to git-over-http: git and apache. These two are connected through a script with the name of git-http-backend. The challenge is to configure the interface between these two components, so that http requests to git are forwarded by apache. Note: Security is outside the scope … Read more

Setting up Git Server on Windows With git-http-backend.exe

OK, so hell has frozen over and I have finally got this working! I believe there were two things that were fundamentally wrong with my setup. 1) The user was not getting authentication passed through, I found this helped: SetEnv REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER Secondly I couldn’t get the physical “Directory” to work. <Directory “C:/GIT/Apache/repositories”> Options +ExecCGI AuthType … Read more