Setting up read-only http access to git repo

Question

how can I have a remote git repo which is accessible via http but only for cloning? Maybe with the help of nginx (already running) and git-http-backend (git-http-fetch ?).

Answer 1

Maybe this is what you are looking for git daemon: Git serve: I would like it that simple

There are many interesting answers on that page but none specifically for nginx.

You could then add a proxy pass in nginx like so:

location / {
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:9418; # Port 9418 is the default git daemon port
}

I don't know of a way of allowing only cloning... but the git daemon command is already read-only. So it should do it's job.

I hope this helps !