Assume SELinux is disabled on your Git server…

The following setup is on CentOS and assume your Git repositories are all located under /data/repos.

1. Install Git and Apache.

yum install git httpd

2. Create the /etc/httpd/conf.d/git.conf.

# Git over HTTP
<VirtualHost *:80>
  SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /data/repos
  SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
  ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/

  <Location /git/>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Git Access"
    AuthUserFile /var/www/passwd.git
    Require valid-user
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

3. Create the /var/www/passwd.git.

htpasswd -c /var/www/passwd.git [username]

4. Restart Apache.

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Verify if you could git clone and push any repository.

If you have SELinux, set the type as follow:

chcon -R -t httpd_git_rw_content_t /data/repos
chcon -t httpd_git_script_exec_t /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend

Done =)

Next: Git – Setup a bare repository which is writable by both user and group

Reference:

• GIT over HTTP (GIT HTTP Transparent)
• How to put git on the web
• Kasun Herath – Git over http(s)