cgit Installed on a Ubuntu Nginx Server

Installing spawn-fcgi

To start out with, we need to install the Nginx and the other dependencies.

apt-get install nginx fcgiwrap git

Ok, here we go, lets start out by creating a place to play with source, I always build in /var/src/ but your welcome to do this anywhere you wish.

/etc/sysconfig/spawn-fcgi:

FCGI_SOCKET=/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket
FCGI_PROGRAM=/usr/local/sbin/fcgiwrap
FCGI_USER=nginx
FCGI_GROUP=nginx
FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS="-M 0700"
OPTIONS="-u $FCGI_USER -g $FCGI_GROUP -s $FCGI_SOCKET -S $FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS -F 1 -P /var/run/spawn-fcgi.pid -- $FCGI_PROGRAM"

Configuring Nginx

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name code.example.com;
    root /var/www/code.example.com;

    fastcgi_param    DOCUMENT_ROOT    /var/www/code.example.com;

    rewrite ^/secure/ https://code.example.com$request_uri permanent;

    location /cgit.css { expires 180d; }
    location /code-logo.png { expires 180d; }
    location /robots.txt { expires 180d; }

    # Serve static files
    location ~* ^.+.(css|png|ico)$ {
        root /var/www/code.example.com;
        expires 30d;
    }

    location / {
        #rewrite ^/([^?/]+/[^?]*)?(?:?(.*))?$ /cgit?url=$1&$2 last;
        include         "fastcgi_params";
        fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/spawn-fcgi.socket;
        fastcgi_index   /;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/code.example.com/cgit.cgi;
        fastcgi_param   PATH_INFO       $uri;
        fastcgi_param   QUERY_STRING    $args;
    }
}