Technical Jargon. Last month I posted about hosting a git server under IIS by using Git. Aspx. While this is certainly one way to host a git server on windows, I wouldnt recommend this in a production environment. An alternative and somewhat more stable approach is to use the native implementation of git http backend that ships with msysgit along with Apache. Step 1 Install Git. Firstly youll need to install msysgit. The current stable version is 1. Be sure to select Run git from the Windows Command prompt when the installer asks you if you want to modify your PATH variable. Once installed, youll need to tweak the installation slightly. By default, the git http server is located at C Program Files x. Gitlibexecgit coregit http backend. IS_IWA.png' alt='Asp And Active Directory Authentication Apache' title='Asp And Active Directory Authentication Apache' />If you try and run git http backend. In order to fix this, copy libiconv. C Program Files x. Gitbin to C Program Files x. Gitlibexecgit core. Now when you run git http backend. Installation. This section holds common questions about the way to install PHP. PHP is available for almost any OS, and almost any web server. Asp And Active Directory Authentication Apache' title='Asp And Active Directory Authentication Apache' />HTTP 5. Step 2 Install Apache. Next youll need to install the Apache webserver. ASP. NET is an opensource serverside web application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow. Im using the 2. 2. I ran through the installation using the default options so my Apache instance is running on port 8. If you visit http localhost at this point you should be greeted with Apaches standard It works message. Step 3 Create Repositories Directory. Create the directory where you want to store your git repositores. Im using C Repositories. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. For testing purposes I created an empty test repository Youll also need to put some content in this test repositor Step 4 Modify Apache Configuration. Next, youll need to modify the Apache configuration file so that it forwards requests to git http backend. This is done by editing httpd. C Program Files x. Apache Software Foundation. Apache. 2. 2conf. At the bottom of httpd. Set. Env GITPROJECTROOT C Repositories. Set. Env GITHTTPEXPORTALL. Script. Alias. Match. HEAD. inforefs. C Program Files x. The first line tells git where your repositories are located. The second line tells git that all repositories in this directory should be published over http by default, git will only publish those repositories that contain a file named git daemon export ok. The final lines tell apache to route git specific URLs to the git http server. Finally, if you want to be able to clone from the server without authentication, then youll need to tell Apache to allow anonymous access by adding the following lines into httpd. Directory. Allow from all. Directory After saving the changes, restart the Apache service. Asp And Active Directory Authentication Apache' title='Asp And Active Directory Authentication Apache' />Step 5 Clone the test repository. Next, clone the test repository that you crated in step 3 by issuing the command git clone http localhostTest. If all goes well, you should see the following output At this point, you can now clone repositories from the server without any authentication. Step 6 Authentication. If you try to push changes to the repository you cloned in step 5, youll receive an error This is because by default, you can only pull from repositories anonymously, while pushing requires authentication to be enabled. Scenario 1 Allow anonymous pushes. Sometimes you may want to allow users to push to your repositories without authentication, for example when using an internal, privately hosted server. To enable this scenario, edit the config file in C Repositories. Test. git on the server and add the following lines to the bottom of the file http. This will allow git to accept pushes from anonymous users. Note that youll have to add this to every repository that you create. Ill show a nicer way to do this later in the tutorial. Scenario 2 Anonymous pull, authenticated push. This is the default scenario. Git will only allow users to push if they have been authenticated with apache. There are several ways to enable user accounts with apache. The most basic is to use. Windows user accounts and Active Directory by using modauthnzldap. Configuring these is outside the scope for this tutorial, but there are plenty of examples on the internets. Once authentication is set up, youll need to ensure that you clone your repositories with the username in the URL, as git will not prompt you for a username by default git clone http My. User. NamemygitserverTest. Git will then prompt you for a password every time that you try to push. You can also hard code the password in the URL somewhat insecure if you want to avoid this prompt git clone http My. User. Name PasswordmygitserverTest. To make this more secure, you could enable SSL on the server and require authenticated traffic to go over HTTPS. Although configuring Open. SSL with apache is outside the scope for this tutorial, I will point out that once configured, you will need to disable the SSL verification on your git client by running git config global http. If you dont do this, youll get an error saying error setting certificate verify locations every time you try to clonepushpull over HTTPS. Step 7 A prettier UIAt this point, you should be able to clone, pull from and push to the server. However, creating new repositories requires that you connect remotely to the server and run git init from a command prompt on the server. A nicer alternative is to use a web based front for the creation of repositories. For this Ill be using Git. Php. Homepage which is a small collection of PHP scripts that I ported from Git. Aspxs ASP. NET based UI to PHP in order to get it working under Apache. First, youll need to install PHP on the server. Ill be using the PHP 5. Windows binaries that can be found at http windows. The download page is somewhat confusing, offering both thread safe and non thread safe versions compiled with both VC6 and VC9. For use with Apache 2. Excel Calendar Templates Free 2014. VC6 x. 86 Thread Safe zip package. Heres a direct link. Unzip the contents of this package to C PHP on the server and add this directory to Windows PATH environment variable Next, rename the php. Uncomment and edit the extensiondir about half way through the file so that it says the following extensiondir c phpextNext, edit your Apache configuration file C Program Files x. Apache Software Foundation. Apache. 2. 2confhttpd. Add. Type applicationx httpd php. Load. Module php. C phpphp. 5apache. PHPIni. Dir C phpThis tells Apache to map. PHP5 apache module located in C php. Youll also need to tell Apache to look for index. This can be done by searching for the lines that look like this lt If. Module dirmodule. Directory. Index index. If. Module and changing them to this lt If. Module dirmodule. Directory. Index index. If. Module Be sure to restart the Apache server once youve made these changes. To see whether this is working, create a file called phpinfo. C Program Files x. Apache Software Foundation. Apache. 2. 2htdocs and place in it the following content lt Now, visiting http mygitserverphpinfo. PHP configuration information. Now that PHP is configured, download the Git. Php. Homepage files from http github. Jeremy. SkinnerGit. Php. Homepage and unzip them into C Program Files x. Apache Software Foundation. Apache. 2. 2htdocs Be sure to edit the config. PHP Installation Manual. Windows 2. 00. 0 Server and IIS SP4 and all patches After many frustrating hours of trying to figure out the install again, It took a while, but here are a couple tips PHP working with IIS uses c winntphp. It doesnt matter what you set the path to, nor what you set the PHPRC environment variable to. After you get PHP running correctly in the installation folder using php i copy the php. Heres what worked for me Add PHP path to System environment variable Add php. PHP folder, then Register it regsvr. Set extensiondir and docroot directives in PHP. INI extensiondir C WWWPHPextdocroot C WWWSitecgi. I like to set it anywayCopy the. INI file into WINNT folder. In IIS Manager, right click Default Web Site, Click Home Directory,Click Configuration, Add the ISAPI application Executable lt your php install php. Extension. php. Limit to GET,HEAD,POSTCheck Script EngineUncheck Check that file existsFinally Set up an ISAPI filter Click the ISAPI Filters tab,Filter Name PHPExecutable lt your php install php. Notes You dont have to set any of your folders as Script source folders. PHP files arent scripts, merely text files that require processing before being shipped off to the browser, which is what the ISAPI filter does. Finally, working again.