Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add cgit.

[宋文武]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:14 AM, 宋文武 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I get it built, but haven't run it.
>>
>> For a cgit service, which CGI runner should we use?
>> IIUC, typical setup are:
>>   - nginx + fcgiwrap (or uwsgi)
>>   - apache httpd
>>   - lighttpd
>
> I'm partial to nginx, and it's the only one we have a service for, but
> it could be made sufficiently generic that it can use any web server
> that a user supplied a handler for.  The nginx service is currently
> missing a way to extend it with additional configuration.  I posted a
> patch for this awhile ago but it never made it to master due to some
> issues.  Once we make nginx extensible, writing a cgit service should
> be easy.
OK, nginx itself won't able to run CGI applications.
And since the website of fastcgi (used by fcgiwrap and lighttpd) is down
now, I'll try package uwsgi.
>
> BTW, have you verified that cgit does not distribute any minified
> JavaScript files?
No, and now it seems that cgit doesn't use javascript at all :-)

Thanks.