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Hi all,
In the documentation for Version Control Services, there is example code
for sharing Git repos through Nginx, posted below. The line
(git-http-configuration (uri-path "/")) implies that git repositories
can be reached at "git.my-host.org/repo.git". However, this doesn't work.
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(service nginx-service-type
(nginx-configuration
(server-blocks
(list
(nginx-server-configuration
(listen '("443 ssl"))
(server-name "git.my-host.org")
(ssl-certificate
"/etc/letsencrypt/live/git.my-host.org/fullchain.pem")
(ssl-certificate-key
"/etc/letsencrypt/live/git.my-host.org/privkey.pem")
(locations
(list
(git-http-nginx-location-configuration
(git-http-configuration (uri-path "/"))))))))))
Nginx's location information is generated by
git-http-nginx-location-configuration, which runs
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(uri (string-append "~ /" (string-trim-both uri-path #\/) "(/.*)"))
If uri-path is "/" (or "", or "\"), this entry will be created in nginx.conf:
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location ~ /(/.*) {
....
}
This location regex pattern will match git.my-host.org//, but not
git.my-host.org/. However, Nginx merges slashes by default, so you
cannot access the repo with 'http://git.my-host.org//repo.git'because
Nginx collapses that to http://git.my-host.org/repo.gitbefore matching
the URI against the location pattern. Which, as mentioned, does not
match.
I did find that (uri-path "*") does work, but I've not tested it
extensively. I also found that I can add `(raw-content (list
"merge_slashes off;"))` to nginx-server-configuration, then use `$ git
clone http://git.my-host.org//repo.git`,but that's not ideal.
At minimum, the documentation should be updated to reflect this
(uri-path "/" vs "\" vs "" are identical). I don't know what the future
plans are for git-http-service, but I can think of two possible solutions:
1. git-http-nginx-location-configuration no longer modifies uri-path and
instead pastes it literally in nginx.conf. To my understanding "/git"
would work identically without the regex match currently used, exposing
repos at "host.domain/git/path/to/repo.git", but I've not tested this.
2. git-http-nginx-location-configuration takes an optional Nginx-style
URI pattern argument that, if passed, replaces the URI generated from
git-http-configuration.
--
Take it easy,
Richard Sent
Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.