Package: gitweb Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1 Severity: wishlist When using gitweb with apache (2.4.10-10+deb8u3 on jessie), apache provides 404s by default for gitweb.css, gitweb.js, git-logo.png, and git-favicon.png if gitweb is accessed through /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi instead of /gitweb/gitweb.cgi:
50.159.64.6 - - [22/Dec/2015:00:53:33 -0800] "GET /cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 5765 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Iceweasel/38.5.0" 50.159.64.6 - - [22/Dec/2015:00:53:33 -0800] "GET /cgi-bin/static/gitweb.css HTTP/1.1" 404 523 "http://spindle.queued.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi"; "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Iceweasel/38.5.0" 50.159.64.6 - - [22/Dec/2015:00:53:33 -0800] "GET /cgi-bin/static/gitweb.js HTTP/1.1" 404 522 "http://spindle.queued.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi"; "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Iceweasel/38.5.0" 50.159.64.6 - - [22/Dec/2015:00:53:33 -0800] "GET /cgi-bin/static/git-logo.png HTTP/1.1" 404 526 "http://spindle.queued.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi"; "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Iceweasel/38.5.0" These things are set as variables in gitweb.cgi and /etc/gitweb.conf (for example, $javascript = "static/gitweb.js"). Apache2 defaults to /cgi-bin being an alias to /usr/lib/cgi-bin (defined by serve-cgi-bin.conf), while the various static files are in /usr/share/gitweb/static/. Meanwhile, /gitweb is aliased to /usr/share/gitweb. Both access URLs work for the cgi script, but it would be nice if the styles worked for both by default. This could be done by changing the base paths in these variables to "/gitweb/static/" instead of "static/". For example, $javascript = "/gitweb/static/gitweb.js". I don't know how changing this would affect other web servers, but it would make apache's default configuration more robust for people used to using /cgi-bin/ in their browsers.
