Raw Notes in installing a personal GIT repository
In an apache personal home pages area
from Vladmir Estivill-Castro


First change umask so webserver can act on the git under my public_html
umask 022


Change into
cd public_html/
mkdir git
cd git
touch log.txt
chmod 666 log.txt


Create a cgi for forwarding

  vi git.cgi


#!/bin/sh
export GIT_PROJECT_ROOT=/home/user/public_html/git
export GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL=1
exec  2>>log.txt

echo >&2 "-----------------------"
date >&2 "+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S"

git http-backend "$@" || echo failed >&2

EXIT the vi

  chmod 0755 git.cgi

  vi gc.cgi
    #! /bin/sh

    echo 'Content-Type: text/plain'
    echo

    for repo in *.git; do
      printf "%s ... " "$repo"
      (cd "$repo" && git gc) && echo "OK" || echo "failed"
    done

  chmod 755 gc.cgi

  umask 0
  git init --bare test.git
  cd test.git/
  echo "Testing a git repo" > description
  git config --file config http.receivepack true
  cd ..

Set up the access
vi .htaccess
    Options +ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script cgi
  chmod 644 .htaccess

You can test this to clone and pull and push WARNING, no users yet
git clone http://www.domain/user/git/git.cgi/test.git

But editing again creates users on the web server
Add to .htaccess file...

  vi .htaccess
    AuthUserFile /home/user/public_html/git_repos/.htpasswd
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Private GIT Repository"
    Require valid-user

Create the .htpasswd (using whatever method is appropriate)
/opt/rh/httpd24/root/usr/bin/htpasswd

  htpasswd  .htpasswd user
    New password: my secret password
    Re-type password: my secret password
    Adding password for user user
  chmod 644 .htpasswd