gitweb not loading repositories through symlinks

Question

I have gitweb on localhost and a sample project for which I've executed the git init git add and so on. I create a symlink with sudo ln -s /media/dir/project/.git/ /var/cache/git/project.git but it doesn't work and I still get 404 - no project found at localhost/gitweb.

The only way I can only bring the project info titles such as description, ..., then without project info, only the 4 sorting options, is to copy the git physically to /var/cache/git/project.git/ though some files won't be copied. This is the only way I could only not receive the not found error.

I manipulated the /etc/gitweb.conf and /etc/apache2/conf.d/gitweb in anyway, but it didn't help.

(I'm using apache 2.2 under Kubuntu 11.10)

Thanks so much for your helps!

Answer 1

Check the permissions on all of the directories in the symlink path. Whatever user your cgi is running as needs at least +x on all the parent dirs and +r on the .git directory and files.