Gitblit as a Viewer

Gitblit is designed to be a complete Git server solution, however you may already have a Git serving solution such as ssh+gitolite or Gerrit. For these scenarios, you may configure Gitblit to be just a repository viewer.

Lock-down your Viewer

Here is an example configuration that disables all administration, all Git serving features, and requires an authenticated user to view anything.

git.repositoriesFolder = ${baseFolder}/git
git.cacheRepositoryList = true
git.searchRepositoriesSubfolders = true
git.searchRecursionDepth = -1
git.searchExclusions =
git.daemonPort = 0
git.enableGitServlet = false
git.enableGarbageCollection = false
git.defaultAccessRestriction = VIEW
web.authenticateViewPages = true
web.allowAdministration = false
web.enableRpcServlet = false
web.enableRpcManagement = false
web.enableRpcAdministration = false
web.allowForking = false

Tomcat or Reverse-Proxy Servers

If you are running Gitblit on a Tomcat-based container you will likely run into forward-slash character troubles.

To resolve this either set:

web.mountParameters = false

or

web.forwardSlashCharacter = !

Advertised Repository Urls

You may also want to advertise repository urls for your other Git serving solution from Gitblit.

• {0} is the token for the repository name
• {1} is the token for the username

The username is only practical if you have setup the account names for your other git serving solution to match the Gitblit account.

web.otherUrls = ssh://localhost/git/{0} git://localhost:29418/git/{0} https://{1}@localhost/r/{0}