From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: stuart <stuart@xnet.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris machine?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:34:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32C5F26D-7498-440C-8BF4-97AF137EF78F@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A27F7E6.8060405@xnet.com>
On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:35 PM, stuart wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris
> machine?
>
> I think this should be a simple question to answer. I have looked
> in the archives - but most, if not all, who post are setting up GIT
> servers using administration privileges. I have a shell account on
> a Solaris box where I can create web pages and trigger the execution
> of scripts from those pages...but no administration right. So, I
> started down the path of privately installing software. However, it
> became apparent that I need git listing on this port and running
> that daemon...both of which are almost impossible with out
> administration rights.
The default port of the git daemon is 9418. Unix systems usually don't
require admin privileges to bind to port >1024. Maybe there's a
firewall between you and the solaris box preventing you from
connecting to such non-standard port? If you are sure there is no such
thing, then simply fire up git-daemon and try to connect to it:
(assuming /path/to/repo.git is the git repository on the server)
server$ git-daemon --export-all --verbose --base-path=/path/to/ /path/
to/
client$ git ls-remote git://<server>/repo.git
If the connection was successful, then stop git-daemon, add '--detach'
to its command line and start it again. It will put itself into the
background, so you can log off the server and git-daemon will keep
runnig. One downside is that it will not be automatically restarted
when it crashes, or when the server is restarted.
> So, is there a way to get some basic GIT functionality through
> serving up web pages and executing CGI scripts. Is there somewhere
> I can read up on this type of server installation?
Git can be used over dumb http protocol. Fetching through http is
fairly easy, simply put the git repo into a directory where the web
server has read rights. Pushing through http will likely require you
to edit the http server settings. Also, git:// protocol is almost
always preferable over http://.
tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-04 16:35 Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris machine? stuart
2009-06-04 17:34 ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2009-06-04 17:37 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-06-05 8:42 ` Jakub Narebski
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