git instaweb gives 403 Forbidden - No projects found

A:

I don't know Git about Git, but you're probably missing the ability to execute on the directory in question, chmod +X it.

Peter Turner 2008-09-22 00:11:34

I tried it just to be sure, but it doesn't appear to be correct in this case: `git instaweb` runs `lighttpd` as the active user. I definitely have full permissions to the repository.

jes5199 2008-09-22 00:34:30

Well, I have a similar issue on my websitehttps://www.american-data.com/pub works okand http://www.american-data.com/pub gives the 403 ErrorI was getting that for a few reasons, problems following symlinks, and .htaccess files and problems with httpd.conf to name a few.

Peter Turner 2008-09-22 00:57:42

+14 A:

looks like the debian install of git sets $projectroot globally in a way that confuses instaweb. I removed the $projectroot line from /etc/gitweb.conf and the error went away.

jes5199 2008-09-22 01:15:37

@jes5199's fix also works with Ubuntu (9.04), I guess because debian is upstream.

Matt Curtis 2009-12-07 00:36:22

+1: Thanks for this. It just helped me out :-)

Johnsyweb 2010-05-31 06:06:42

+1 A:

check the git-web cgi (the perl), see the directory of the projectroot is same as your currect setting. there are some settings that not in gitweb.conf

2009-04-08 12:56:13

+1 A:

Two years later ..

I fixed this problem by stating the projectroot in gitweb.cgi (it's the only value that seems to matter)

klang 2010-08-25 10:46:22

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