From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:19:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add git-http-backend example to Nginx post.
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Add git-http-backend example to Nginx post.
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diff --git a/posts/Nginx.mdwn b/posts/Nginx.mdwn
index 36615fa..df71fef 100644
--- a/posts/Nginx.mdwn
+++ b/posts/Nginx.mdwn
@@ -98,6 +98,30 @@ Add it to the default runlevel with:
 
    # sudo rc-update add spawn-fcgi.fcgiwrap default
 
+If you also want a virtual host serving Git over HTTP, you can add a
+virtual host like:
+
+    server {
+      # http-git.example.com
+      listen 80;
+      server_name http-git.example.com;
+
+      access_log /var/log/nginx/http-git.example.com.access_log main;
+      error_log /var/log/nginx/http-git.example.com.error_log info;
+
+      location / {
+        include fastcgi_params;
+        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend;
+        fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL "";
+        fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/git;
+        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $document_uri;
+        fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.sock-1;
+      }
+    }
+
+This uses the same FastCGI server we used for gitweb, but this time
+the backend CGI script is `git-http-backend`.
+
 Wildcard virtual hosts
 ======================