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I have a little problem.

I want to be able to use a location such as git.my-domain.org/repo-a to set an environment that is used in git.my-domain.org/ as /repo-a is changed to / using a rewrite rule (which I must use?)

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName git.my-domain.org
    DocumentRoot /usr/share/gitweb

    RewriteEngine On

    <Location /repo-a>
        RewriteRule /repo-a(.*) /$1 [PT]
        SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG "/var/lib/gitolite/repositories/repo-a.git/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl"
    </Location>

    <Directory />
        AllowOverride All
        Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I need to use a rewrite rule because /usr/share/gitweb/repo-a does not exist (or do I?), and I don't have any intention of creating any directories there. What I want is to use SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG from /daily-backups and use it under /. But it seems that it isn't set, I've also tried using SetEnvIf with no success.

SetEnvIf Request_URI ".*repo-a" GITWEB_CONFIG "/var/lib/gitolite/repositories/repo-a.git/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl"

There is probably an automated way to use a RewriteRule together with SetEnv so that I don't have to create a new for another repository? For example:

SetEnvIf Request_URI ".*repo-a" GITWEB_CONFIG "/var/.../$1.git/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl"

I know I can symlink directories and using /var/lib/.../repo-a.git/gitweb/ as a DocumentRoot instead, but I'd rather avoid this as it would increase the number of .conf files (or be very cluttered).

Question summary

  1. Do I need a rewrite rule because the directory doesn't exist?
  2. How do I pass an environment variable to another "location"?
  3. Is there a way to simplify SetEnvIf or SetEnv to make use of the URI?
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You should be able to do:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName git.my-domain.org
    DocumentRoot /usr/share/gitweb

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule /(repo-?) / [E=GITWEB_CONFIG:/var/lib/gitolite/repositories/$1.git/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl,PT]

    <Directory />
        AllowOverride All
        Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
     </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This regex only supports repo-a, repo-1 etc. You can widen it but be careful not to swallow too much with .* but depends on how the CGI works.

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Thanks for the help. With your help I was able to add any name of the repository, so that I don't need every repository to start with repo-. As you mentioned .* was a bit troublesome but I figured out how to solve it. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*)/$ - [E=GITWEB_CONFIG:/var/lib/gitolite/repositories/$1/gitweb/gitweb_config.perl] RewriteRule ^/.*/(static/.*)$ /$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/.*/(gitweb\.cgi) /$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/.+$ / – Senth Nov 13 '12 at 11:32
Excellent, I'm glad it worked :) You can show your appreciation with an upvote and accepting my answer :) meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/… – Fuzzyfelt Nov 13 '12 at 11:46
I would like to upvote you, but I need 15 reputation to vote :/ I'll go through my questions again once I get 15 reputation, although it might take a while. – Senth Nov 13 '12 at 11:53
hehe, don't worry. Thanks for the accept :) – Fuzzyfelt Nov 13 '12 at 11:55

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