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Setting up Git Server on Windows With git-http-backend.exe

Answer 1

A:

If you are using AuthType Basic, that means, as this tutorial points out, that:

you need to add users and passwords to the .htpasswd file (defined by the AuthUserFile directive, which doesn't seem to point to a file in your case)
you have to add the same user and password on the client machine under ~/.netrc.

Note, if you upgrade to the very latest msysgit 1.7.3.1 (released 18 hours ago), its release notes mentions:

curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.

So if you are using a _netrc with that "Git for Windows" version, it should be correctly taken into account (and not ask you anymore for your password).

The comments of the aforementioned tutorial are instructive as well (I am not sure if they are directly relevant to your case though). For instance:

Got clone to work. Should have paid more attention to the git-http-backend man page.
I added the file git-daemon-export-ok to /website.com/git/myproject.git and all went well.

VonC 2010-10-03 08:17:37

Hi Vonc, there is a file called "users" and one called "groups". The basic auth works fine with these files for a PHP page on the same Apache instance, (made edit to show). don't know what a ~/.netrc is or why I would need to add it to the client really for windows. Will look at the link in more detail and get back to you. Thx

Jon 2010-10-03 15:41:04

Answer 2

+2 A:

OK, so hell has frozen over and I have finally got this working!

I believe there were two things that were fundamentally wrong with my setup.

1) The user was not getting authentication passed through, I found this helped:

SetEnv REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER

Secondly I couldn't get the physical "Directory" to work.

<Directory "C:/GIT/Apache/repositories">
Options +ExecCGI
AuthType Basic
AuthName intranet
AuthUserFile "C:/GIT/Apache/config/users"
Require valid-user
</Directory>

To resolve this I used locationMatch for both the pull and push. This means you have to authenticate to pull and push. If you wanted annoy pulling you can remove the "git-upload-pack" section.

Hope this may help someone else.

Here is my final httpd.conf file:

DocumentRoot "C:/GIT/Apache/www"

<Directory />
Options +ExecCGI
Allow from all  
</Directory>

<Directory "C:/GIT/Apache/www">
  Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory "C:/GIT/Apache/www/secure">
AuthType Basic
AuthName intranet
AuthUserFile "C:/GIT/Apache/config/users"
require valid-user
</Directory>

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT C:/GIT/Apache/repositories
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
SetEnv REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER
ScriptAliasMatch \
    "(?x)^/(.*/(HEAD | \
                    info/refs | \
                    objects/(info/[^/]+ | \
                             [0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \
                             pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \
                    git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
                    "C:/Program Files/git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe/$1"


<LocationMatch "^/.*/git-receive-pack$">
Options +ExecCGI
AuthType Basic
AuthName intranet
AuthUserFile "C:/GIT/Apache/config/users"
Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>

<LocationMatch "^/.*/git-upload-pack$">
Options +ExecCGI
AuthType Basic
AuthName intranet
AuthUserFile "C:/GIT/Apache/config/users"
Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>

Jon 2010-10-20 21:33:13

Excellent feedback. Thank you. +1

VonC 2010-10-21 04:05:14

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