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Awhile ago I set up my own git server. I’ve beenhacking happily using that and Eclipse. In my spare time, I’ve been takingUCSD’s wonderful algorithm course: Algorithmic Design and Techniques. The course provides plenty of programming challenges! I chose the paid version so my code can be evaluated against all tests in the grading server. I solved the programming challenges in 3 languages: Java, Python, and C++. It has been so much fun!

Anyway, I thought it’d be nice to enable aweb front end to my own code hosted on my own server. There are a lot of choices: gitweb, gitlab, gitea, etc. A couple of days agoI came across cgit. It’s pretty lightweight, written in C. That’s what I chose for that task. It’s setup now already, please go tohttps://code.haidongji.comto check it out!

It takes a bit of work to get the clean subdomain working. My environment is Debian 9 running apache2. Below were steps taken to make my environment work. Hope it helps somebody!

• sudo apt install cgit
  The install creates /etc/cgitrc file and /etc/apache2/conf-available/cgit.conf
• Here is the content of my apache2 site conf file

  <VirtualHost *:80>
          ServerName code.haidongji.com
          ServerAdmin emailAddress
          DocumentRoot /usr/share/cgit/
  	<Directory "/usr/share/cgit/">
  		AllowOverride None
  		Options ExecCGI
  		Order allow,deny
  		Allow from all
  	</Directory>
  	Alias /cgit-css/cgit.css /usr/share/cgit/cgit.css
  	Alias /cgit-css/cgit.png /usr/share/cgit/cgit.png
  	ScriptAlias / /usr/lib/cgit/cgit.cgi/
  
          ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/codehaidongji.log
          CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/codehaidongji.log combined
  
  </VirtualHost>

• sudo apt install python3-pygments for syntax highlighting
• Here is the content of the /etc/cgitrc file

  css=/cgit-css/cgit.css
  logo=/cgit-css/cgit.png
  
  # enable Pygments syntax highlighting. Must be above scan-path, otherwise it would not work!
  source-filter=/usr/lib/cgit/filters/syntax-highlighting.py
  scan-path=/srv/git

• sudo a2enmod cgid
  sudo a2enconf cgit
• sudo systemctl restart apache2

Note that in /etc/cgitrc, syntax highlighting line MUST BE ABOVE the scan-path line, otherwise syntax highlighting will not work!

Cheers and happy coding!