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Annotation of cvsweb/INSTALL, Revision 3.5

3.3       knu         1: $FreeBSD$
3.2       knu         2:
3.1       knu         3: 1) To get cvsweb.cgi to work, make sure that you
3.4       scop        4:    have Perl 5 installed and a web server which is capable
                      5:    of executing cgi-scripts.
3.1       knu         6:
3.4       scop        7:    Surprisingly enough, you need to have cvs installed.  The recommended
                      8:    version of cvs is 1.11 or newer.  Older cvs versions may work with
                      9:    more or less quirks, YMMV.
                     10:
                     11:    Currently, you'll also need to have the GNU RCS utilities  'rlog',
3.1       knu        12:    'rcsdiff' installed (current version is 5.7).
                     13:
                     14:    This will change if cvs will be able
                     15:    to serve these functions without having a working directory
                     16:    [see TODO]
3.4       scop       17:    Note that the cvsweb.cgi script needs to have physical
3.1       knu        18:    access to the repository (or a copy of it) therefore;
                     19:    rsh/ssh or pserver access doesn't work yet.
                     20:
3.5     ! scop       21:    Install CvsGraph if you want to use it with CVSWeb, and see (5) for
        !            22:    configuration notes.  This has been tested with CvsGraph 1.3.0.
        !            23:
3.4       scop       24: 2) Copy cvsweb.conf to your configuration directory. If
3.1       knu        25:    you've installed Apache, $ServerRoot/conf (or $ServerRoot/etc
                     26:    with versions >= 1.3.0) makes sense.
                     27:    Edit cvsweb.conf to fit your needs, esp. set the CVS-Root(s)
                     28:    of the Repository(ies) you want to view.
                     29:    If your RCS utilities are not in the $PATH of the cgi execution
                     30:    environment you need to set it in the 'Misc' section as well.
                     31:
3.4       scop       32: 3) Copy cvsweb.cgi to the cgi script location of your web server.
3.1       knu        33:    Edit it to make the variable $config (look for 'Configuration Area')
                     34:    point to your configuration file.
3.4       scop       35:    If your perl binary isn't located in /usr/bin you'll have to edit the
3.1       knu        36:    first line of the script as well.
3.5     ! scop       37:    If you want to run cvsweb.cgi on Windows NT, see (7).
3.1       knu        38:
3.4       scop       39: 4) If you do not have the dir.gif, text.gif and back.gif icons, copy
                     40:    them somewhere in your $DocumentRoot and edit the %ICONS hash
                     41:    in cvsweb.conf.  You won't need to do this if you have a stock
                     42:    Apache installed - they're located in the default icons directory.
3.1       knu        43:    The icons distributed with this cvsweb are in the public domain.
3.4       scop       44:    If you think that the default icons are too large, use the corresponding
                     45:    mini icons in the icons/ directory and change the %ICONS hash in
3.1       knu        46:    cvsweb.conf.
                     47:
3.5     ! scop       48: 5) CvsGraph <http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/> can be used with
        !            49:    this version of CVSWeb.  See the $allow_cvsgraph and $cvsgraph_config
        !            50:    configuration variables in cvsweb.conf.  cvsweb.cgi will override some
        !            51:    of the settings in the cvsgraph configuration file with command line
        !            52:    options; the following in particular: map_branch_href, map_rev_href and
        !            53:    map_diff_href so you won't have to tweak them for CVSWeb.  Note (and
        !            54:    install) also the cvsgraph.png icon in the icons/ directory.
        !            55:
        !            56: 6) Have fun!
3.1       knu        57:
3.5     ! scop       58: 7) If you've Windows NT running, calling of external programs with parameters
3.1       knu        59:    single quoted doesn't work (search for rcsdiff, rlog in
3.4       scop       60:    cvsweb.cgi), you've to replace it with double quotes.  Thanks to
                     61:    Nick Brachet for pointing this out.
3.1       knu        62:    I don't know if cvs-annotate works on NT.
                     63:
                     64:    > From: Nick Brachet <nick@gradient.com>
                     65:    [...]
                     66:    > I'm running NT <g> and I had to patch a few things. For example,
                     67:    >   open(RCS, "co -p$rev '$fullname' 2>&1 |")
                     68:    > will fail on NT because the ' are not recognized. Using " will work
                     69:    > though.
                     70:
3.5     ! scop       71: 8) If you like you can add descriptions to be shown next to each directory
3.4       scop       72:    or module name.  These are read from CVSROOT/descriptions.
3.1       knu        73:
                     74:    - Check out a copy of your CVSROOT
                     75:    - edit checkoutlist and add a line that says
                     76:        descriptions
                     77:    - edit descriptions.  Add one line for each directory that you would like
                     78:      to have a comment for.  You can have HTML in the descriptions.
                     79:      These lines are relative from the $CVSROOT.  Example:
3.3       knu        80:        JVote          An application to assist with <A HREF="http://www.irtc.org/">IRTC</A> voting
                     81:        JVote/images   Store the images for JVote
                     82:        JVote/tools    Scripts to startup JVote
3.1       knu        83:    - cvs add descriptions
                     84:    - cvs commit
                     85:    - Set $use_descriptions to 1 in cvsweb.conf.
                     86:
                     87: --------------------
                     88:
                     89: if you got PROBLEMS ..
                     90: ----------------------
                     91:
                     92: If you've trouble to make cvsweb.cgi work ...
                     93: .. if nothing seems to work:
3.4       scop       94:  o Check if you can execute CGI-scripts (Apache needs to have an
                     95:    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin or cgi-script Handler defined).  Try to
                     96:    execute a simple CGI script that often comes with the distribution
                     97:    of the web server; locate the log files and try to find hints
                     98:    which explain the malfunction.
                     99: o  View the entries in the web servers error.log
3.1       knu       100:
                    101: .. If cvsweb seems to work but doesn't show the expected result
                    102:   (Typical error: you can't see any files)
3.4       scop      103:  o Check whether the CGI script has read permissions to your
                    104:    CVS-Repository.  The CGI script often runs as the user 'nobody'
                    105:    or 'httpd'...
                    106:    If you use annotation, the user needs to have write permissions
3.1       knu       107:    to CVSROOT/history and to the directory the file is in in order
                    108:    to place the read-lock.
3.4       scop      109:    If you don't want cvsweb to write into your CVSROOT/history, build
3.1       knu       110:    a fake cvsroot with symlinks to the 'real' CVS-directories and make
                    111:    a fake CVSROOT/history as symbolic link to /dev/null.
3.4       scop      112:    If you don't want cvs called from cvsweb to place read-locks - let
3.1       knu       113:    cvsweb operate on a copy.
3.4       scop      114:  o Does cvsweb find your RCS-utils/cvs-binary(annotate) ? ($ENV{PATH} in
3.1       knu       115:    cvsweb.conf !)
3.4       scop      116:  o cvsweb allows for compression now.  It is determined first,
                    117:    if the browser accepts gzip-encoding.  But - no rule without
3.1       knu       118:    exception - MSIE claims to understand gzip encoded content but
3.4       scop      119:    displays garbage .. so MSIE is disabled now.  Maybe you find another
3.1       knu       120:    Browser with this problem, then you should disable compression
3.4       scop      121:    ($allow_compress=0 in cvsweb.conf) and
3.1       knu       122:    report it to me (<zeller@think.de>)

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