CGI scripts, specifically cgit

[alephnull]

I am trying to get cgit to be served by merecat and have come up against this bug. I do not fully understand CGI and PATH_INFO but I did track down an old patch for thttpd which seems relevant. However, I cannot figure out if this patch has been applied as it cannot be applied in its current form.

I'd be happy to provide any other information to help debug this.

[troglobit]

Hi! What version of Mercat httpd are you using, a released version or the latest master? I've mostly run GitWeb and fixed some CGI issues surrounding that, see http://git.troglobit.com/

The mail thread you linked to look very interesting, I found the "titan" patches¹ which I'll look into when I find the time. There could definitely be more details to look into. The patch itself is however already applied to Merecat, which leads me back to my first question; what version of Merecat are you using?
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¹) https://marc.info/?l=thttpd&m=108352795820187&w=2

[alephnull]

What version of Mercat httpd are you using, a released version or the latest master?

Latest master, built into a debian package. Its running on armhf.

[troglobit]

OK, thanks! I think I've reproduced your problem now. Set up a cgit instance on my own server http://cgit.troglobit.com/ ... I'll look into the details over the weekend.

[troglobit]

With the following in my /etc/cgitrc, a bit of linking+symlinking, and some magic virtual host bind-mounts, I got it working on my Ubuntu server. Note the leading slash in the virtual-root:*

# cgit config

css=/cgit.css
logo=/cgit.png

# Prepend this to all URLs
virtual-root=/cgit.cgi/

# Home of all GIT repos
scan-path=/srv/git/

# if you do not want that webcrawler (like google) index your site
robots=noindex, nofollow

My /usr/share/cgit is bind mounted into /var/www/cgit.troglobit.com and contains the following files (cgit.cgi is linked from ../../lib/cgit/):

root@example:/usr/share/cgit# ll
total 1000
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 30 11:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x 140 root root   4096 Mar 30 09:39 ../
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root root 986800 Feb 12  2016 cgit.cgi*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  13312 Feb 12  2016 cgit.css
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   1278 Feb 12  2016 cgit.png
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   1078 Feb 12  2016 favicon.ico
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     22 Mar 30 11:16 filters -> ../../lib/cgit/filters/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      8 Mar 30 10:16 index.cgi -> cgit.cgi*
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     47 Feb 12  2016 robots.txt

[alephnull]

Thanks @troglobit. I tried your config but I could not get it working without vhosts. I cannot setup vhosts at this time but I will sooner or later.

[troglobit]

Aha, well that could be that you need to use /var/www/cgi-bin/ for all such purposes, or an issue with chrooting.