How would you install Gitweb in shared hosting?

Question

I recently installed my git in my shared hosting now I want to install gitweb but I don't know how to install and configure it.

Do you have any process to share on gitweb installation?

Answer 1

The gitweb section of the git repo does contain detailed installation instructions.

To quote just the first section:

GIT web Interface (gitweb) Installation

First you have to generate gitweb.cgi from gitweb.perl using "make gitweb", then "make install-gitweb" appropriate files (gitweb.cgi, gitweb.js, gitweb.css, git-logo.png and git-favicon.png) to their destination.
For example if git was (or is) installed with /usr prefix and gitwebdir is /var/www/cgi-bin, you can do:

$ make prefix=/usr gitweb                            ;# as yourself
# make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin install-gitweb     ;# as root

Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to set up path to git binaries (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead

$ make configure                     ;# as yourself
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr          ;# as yourself
$ make gitweb                        ;# as yourself
# make gitwebdir=/var/www/cgi-bin \
       install-gitweb                ;# as root

The above example assumes that your web server is configured to run [executable] files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ as server scripts (as CGI scripts).