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3.3       knu         1: $FreeBSD$
3.2       knu         2:
3.17      scop        3: For notes on upgrading from 2.0.x to 3.x, see the bottom of this document.
                      4:
3.16      scop        5: 1) To get cvsweb.cgi to work, make sure that you have Perl 5.6.0 or
3.7       scop        6:    newer installed and a web server which is capable of executing CGI
3.18      scop        7:    scripts.  See also samples/cvsweb-httpd.conf.
3.7       scop        8:
3.10      scop        9:    CVSweb uses the following Perl modules.  Chances are that some of
3.7       scop       10:    these are already installed with your Perl distribution.  The oldest
                     11:    Perl distributions, if any, that already ship with these modules have
                     12:    been marked below.  If your Perl doesn't have some of the modules,
                     13:    you can get them from CPAN, <http://www.cpan.org/>.  Be sure to
                     14:    install also the prerequisites these modules may have.  Note that
                     15:    this list contains only modules that aren't already part of Perl
3.16      scop       16:    5.6.0 and newer.
3.17      scop       17:
3.7       scop       18:
3.11      scop       19:       Module                Version  Ships with Perl      Type
                     20:       ----------------------------------------------------------
                     21:       File::Temp                          5.8.0         required
3.12      scop       22:       IPC::Run                              N/A         required
3.11      scop       23:       MIME::Types                           N/A         optional
3.13      scop       24:       String::Ediff                         N/A         optional
3.15      scop       25:       URI                                   N/A         required
3.1       knu        26:
3.4       scop       27:    Surprisingly enough, you need to have cvs installed.  The recommended
                     28:    version of cvs is 1.11 or newer.  Older cvs versions may work with
                     29:    more or less quirks, YMMV.
                     30:
                     31:    Currently, you'll also need to have the GNU RCS utilities  'rlog',
3.17      scop       32:    'rcsdiff' installed (current version is 5.7).
3.1       knu        33:
3.6       scop       34:    This may change if cvs will be able to serve these functions without
                     35:    having a working directory [see TODO].
3.1       knu        36:
3.6       scop       37:    Note that the cvsweb.cgi script needs to have physical access to the
                     38:    repository (or a copy of it) therefore; rsh, ssh or pserver access
                     39:    doesn't work yet.
                     40:
3.20      scop       41:    Install CvsGraph if you want to use it with CVSweb, and see (6) for
3.8       scop       42:    configuration notes.  CvsGraph 1.4.0 or newer is required.
3.5       scop       43:
3.9       scop       44:    Install GNU Enscript if you want syntax highlighting, and see (7) for
3.19      scop       45:    more info.  You'll need version 1.6.3 or newer.
3.9       scop       46:
3.17      scop       47: 2) Copy cvsweb.conf to a configuration directory, typically
                     48:    /usr/local/etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf.
                     49:    Edit cvsweb.conf to fit your needs, you'll probably need to tweak the
                     50:    CVS root(s) of the Repository(ies) you want to view.
3.26      scop       51:    See also the @command_path variable for the path where cvsweb.cgi
3.17      scop       52:    looks for the various external executables it interacts with.
3.26      scop       53:    The other cvsweb.conf-* files are example per-cvsroot configuration files,
                     54:    see commentary in cvsweb.conf for more information.
3.17      scop       55:
                     56: 3) Copy cvsweb.cgi to a directory of your web server where the execution
                     57:    of CGI scripts is allowed.  Edit it to make the variable $config
                     58:    (look for 'Configuration Area') point to your configuration file.
3.4       scop       59:    If your perl binary isn't located in /usr/bin you'll have to edit the
3.26      scop       60:    first line of the script as well.  For Apache web servers, there is an
                     61:    optional sample httpd.conf snippet in the samples/ directory.  Most
                     62:    setups do not need it though, it is only for advanced and/or mod_perl
                     63:    configurations.
3.1       knu        64:
3.4       scop       65: 4) If you do not have the dir.gif, text.gif and back.gif icons, copy
                     66:    them somewhere in your $DocumentRoot and edit the %ICONS hash
                     67:    in cvsweb.conf.  You won't need to do this if you have a stock
                     68:    Apache installed - they're located in the default icons directory.
3.1       knu        69:    The icons distributed with this cvsweb are in the public domain.
3.4       scop       70:    If you think that the default icons are too large, use the corresponding
                     71:    mini icons in the icons/ directory and change the %ICONS hash in
3.1       knu        72:    cvsweb.conf.
                     73:
3.6       scop       74: 5) Copy cvsweb.css from the css/ directory to a web server directory, and
                     75:    point the $cssurl variable in cvsweb.conf to it.
                     76:
                     77: 6) CvsGraph <http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/> can be used with
3.20      scop       78:    this version of CVSweb.  See the $allow_cvsgraph and $cvsgraph_config
3.5       scop       79:    configuration variables in cvsweb.conf.  cvsweb.cgi will override some
                     80:    of the settings in the cvsgraph configuration file with command line
                     81:    options; the following in particular: map_branch_href, map_rev_href and
3.20      scop       82:    map_diff_href so you won't have to tweak them for CVSweb.  Note (and
3.5       scop       83:    install) also the cvsgraph.png icon in the icons/ directory.
                     84:
3.9       scop       85: 7) GNU Enscript <http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/> can be used for syntax
3.27    ! scop       86:    highlighting.  To enable it, copy lang_cvsweb.st and lang_cvsweb_diff.st
        !            87:    from the enscript/ dir to your Enscript "hl" directory (often eg.
        !            88:    /usr/share/enscript/hl/) and enable $allow_enscript in cvsweb.conf.
        !            89:    lang_cvsweb.st is used for generic colorization, and lang_cvsweb_diff.st
        !            90:    for diffs.
3.9       scop       91:
                     92: 8) Have fun!
3.1       knu        93:
3.17      scop       94: 9) If you like you can add descriptions to be shown next to each directory
3.4       scop       95:    or module name.  These are read from CVSROOT/descriptions.
3.1       knu        96:
                     97:    - Check out a copy of your CVSROOT
                     98:    - edit checkoutlist and add a line that says
                     99:        descriptions
3.17      scop      100:    - Edit descriptions.  Add one line for each directory that you would like
3.1       knu       101:      to have a comment for.  You can have HTML in the descriptions.
                    102:      These lines are relative from the $CVSROOT.  Example:
3.22      scop      103:        JVote          An application to assist with <a href="http://www.irtc.org/">IRTC</a> voting
3.3       knu       104:        JVote/images   Store the images for JVote
                    105:        JVote/tools    Scripts to startup JVote
3.1       knu       106:    - cvs add descriptions
                    107:    - cvs commit
                    108:    - Set $use_descriptions to 1 in cvsweb.conf.
                    109:
                    110:
3.17      scop      111: Troubleshooting
                    112: ---------------
3.1       knu       113:
                    114: If you've trouble to make cvsweb.cgi work ...
                    115: .. if nothing seems to work:
3.17      scop      116:  o Check if you can execute CGI scripts (Apache needs to have an
                    117:    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin or cgi-script Handler defined).  Try to
3.4       scop      118:    execute a simple CGI script that often comes with the distribution
                    119:    of the web server; locate the log files and try to find hints
                    120:    which explain the malfunction.
3.17      scop      121: o  View the entries in the web server's error.log.
3.1       knu       122:
                    123: .. If cvsweb seems to work but doesn't show the expected result
                    124:   (Typical error: you can't see any files)
3.4       scop      125:  o Check whether the CGI script has read permissions to your
3.17      scop      126:    CVS repository.  The CGI script often runs as the user 'nobody'
                    127:    or 'httpd'.
                    128:  o If you use annotation, see @annotate_options in cvsweb.conf.
                    129:  o See CVSROOT/config for various options controlling what gets written
                    130:    into CVSROOT/history, where lock files are placed etc.  You can also
                    131:    build a fake cvsroot with symlinks to the 'real' CVS directories and make
3.1       knu       132:    a fake CVSROOT/history as symbolic link to /dev/null.
3.17      scop      133:    If you don't want cvs called from cvsweb to place read locks at all, let
3.1       knu       134:    cvsweb operate on a copy.
3.17      scop      135:  o Does cvsweb find your RCS utils/cvs binary(annotate)?
                    136:    See $command_path in in cvsweb.conf.
                    137:  o cvsweb allows for compression now.  It is determined first if the
                    138:    browser accepts gzip encoding.  But - no rule without exception - some
                    139:    versions of MSIE claim to understand gzip encoded content but
                    140:    display garbage .. so compression for MSIE is disabled now.  Maybe you
                    141:    find another browser with this problem, then you should disable
                    142:    compression ($allow_compress=0 in cvsweb.conf) and report it to
                    143:    <freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org>.
                    144:
                    145:
                    146: Upgrading from FreeBSD-CVSweb 2.0.x to 3.x
                    147: ------------------------------------------
                    148:
                    149: Make sure that the dependencies are met, see 1) above.
                    150:
                    151: The following configuration variables in cvsweb.conf have changed:
                    152:
3.24      scop      153:    $command_path has been changed to @command_path, ie. a list.
                    154:
3.25      scop      155:    @HideModules has been removed.  It had nothing to do with actual
                    156:    modules in CVS terminology, and the implementation was broken.
                    157:    @ForbiddenFiles has been enhanced to affect directories as well.
                    158:
3.17      scop      159:    $cvstreedefault is now optional.  If unset, the first one in
                    160:    @CVSrepositories is used.
                    161:
                    162:    %DEFAULTVALUE for "f" (default diff format) now understands the values
3.22      scop      163:    "uc", "cc" and "sc" for enscript-colored diffs (unified, context and
                    164:    side-by-side respectively).
3.17      scop      165:
                    166:    %DEFAULTVALUE for "ln" can now be set to a boolean indicating whether
                    167:    line numbers in markup views should be shown or not.  The default is off.
                    168:
3.20      scop      169:    The following parameters have been removed, use CSS instead:
3.17      scop      170:    $body_tag, $body_tag_for_src, $navigationHeaderColor, $dirtable,
                    171:    @tabcolors, $columnHeaderColorDefault, $columnHeaderColorSorted,
                    172:    $tableBorderColor, $diffcolorHeading, $diffcolorEmpty, $diffcolorRemove,
                    173:    $diffcolorChange, $diffcolorAdd, $diffcolorDarkChange, $difffontface,
                    174:    $difffontsize, $markupLogColor.
3.20      scop      175:
                    176:    The following parameters have been removed, with no replacement:
3.21      scop      177:    $open_extern_window, $extern_window_height, $extern_window_width,
                    178:    $checkout_magic.
3.17      scop      179:
                    180:    $allow_enscript, @enscript_options and %enscript_types control the use
                    181:    and behavior of enscript(1).
                    182:
                    183:    $allow_cvsgraph and $cvsgraph_config control the use and behavior of
                    184:    cvsgraph(1).
                    185:
                    186:    $file_list_len can be set to work around problems with rlog(1) and dirs
                    187:    with lots of files.
                    188:
                    189:    $cssurl contains the absolute URI to the CSS file to use.
                    190:
                    191:    %ICONS has two new entries: binfile for binary files (-kb keyword
                    192:    substitution) and graph for the cvsgraph icon.
3.23      scop      193:
                    194:    %DIFF_COMMANDS is new, it is used to configure external per file type
                    195:    diff commands.

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