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Asked: 2026-06-09T07:58:54+00:00

I’m getting the following error in my /var/log/apache2/error.log when I try to do a

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I’m getting the following error in my /var/log/apache2/error.log when I try to do a git clone to my server running gitolite with smart-http enabled

[Wed Jul 25 21:53:36 2012] [error] [client 124.149.104.106] FATAL: warn\tUse of 
uninitialized value $rc{"UMASK"} in umask at /opt/git/gitolite-source/src/
gitolite-shell line 95, <DATA> line 1.<<newline>>

I do have the UMASK value set to 0027 in /home/git/.gitolite.rc

Any thoughts why the value isn’t setting when called from an su_exec from a file in sites-available?

I’m running apache as www-data – and have set up permissions on the various scripts as per the instructions here – ie:

install -d -m 0755 -o git -g git /var/www/bin
install -d -m 0755 -o www -g www /var/www/git

and then:

create a shell script inside /var/www/bin named gitolite-suexec-wrapper.sh, with mode 0700 and owned by user and group git.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok got it – basically I reinstalled starting from scratch:

    1. Install gitolite (installing the source to the /home/git directory and running the setup as the git user using su - git)
    2. Read the warning here
    3. Run the steps in this document (ie not run the file – just line by line)
    4. Don’t run the exports here as we’ll run gitolite as the git user
    5. Install gitweb using apt-get – configure it to point to the repositories at /home/git/repositories

    6. Put the following into the apache site configuration here /etc/apache2/sites-available/git.servername.com

      <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin mail@servername.com
    ServerAlias git
    ServerName git.servername.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/git

    <Directory /var/www/git>
      Options +Indexes
      AllowOverride none
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>

    SuexecUserGroup git git
    ScriptAlias /git/ /var/www/bin/gitolite-suexec-wrapper.sh/
    ScriptAlias /gitmob/ /var/www/bin/gitolite-suexec-wrapper.sh/

    <Location /git>
      AuthType Basic
      AuthName "Git Access"
      Require valid-user
      AuthUserFile /home/git/gitolite-http-authuserfile
    </Location>
    Loglevel warn
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

    7. Use the styles for gitweb from here.

    8. Now I can access my site via ssh using
      git clone ssh://git@git.servername.com:gitolite-admin.git
      http://admin@git.servername.com/git/testing.git

      and view it at
      http://servername.com/gitweb

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