On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
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
... and run git-update-server-info in the git repository.
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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