Setting environment variable for CGI

[troglobit]

Setting environment variable for CGI

[troglobit]

Hi! Merecat scrubs the environment before forking off CGI children, because of security reasons, so unfortunately you cannot set CGI env. variables like that. We could consider adding Apache SetEnv style support, but there's nothing there atm.

(Btw, I blogged a while back about how to set up cgit with merecat, here -> https://troglobit.com/2018/03/cgit-with-merecat-httpd/ maybe it helps.)

[alephnull]

I tried a wrapper around the binary to set the env vars. It tdidn't work but I think it should. I;m not sure what I'm doing wrong though.

% cat ghb.cgi 
#!/bin/sh

export GIT_PROJECT_ROOT=/srv/repos
export GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL=1

env GIT_PROJECT_ROOT=/srv/repos  GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL=1 /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend

[troglobit]

Yup, a wrapper like that should work.

FYI, I've planned to add Apache SetEnv-style support to Merecat. Not there yet though.