I've investigated what it would take for git-instaweb to 'just work' on
Mac OS X 10.5 when running the command with no arguments. This would be
of benefit to many Mac git users since they shouldn't be expected to
troubleshoot this problem. Here are the current issues at play:
- lighttpd does not come with Mac OS X by default, so git-instaweb
currently exits with "lighttpd not found...".
- git-instaweb doesn't fallback to using other web servers on the
system
if the default command doesn't exist.
- Mac OS X does come with webrick and 'git-instaweb -d webrick'
_does_ just
work. It's probably slower than Apache though (?).
- Mac OS X also comes with mongrel, which is a great alternative, but
git-instaweb doesn't support it.
- Mac OS X's Apache installation is different than what git-instaweb
expects in a couple areas:
- the Apache binary is called 'httpd', not 'apache2', and git-
instaweb
only looks for the latter.
- the modules on Mac OS X live in /usr/libexec/apache2 but by
default
git-instaweb looks for /usr/lib/apache2/modules.
- Apache attempts to create its 'accept serialization lock file' at
/private/var/run/ but that path is only writeable by root (a
workaround
is to add a LockFile directive to the conf file that places it
in $fqgitdir/gitweb/tmp).
I'm interested in fixing this to make the experience smoother for Mac
users.
What is the community's preferred avenue of fixing this?
-nathan
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