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
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