Scott Motte

Installing git on your slicehost and managing it with gitosis

FINAL FINAL UPDATE: Here is the method I prefer now.

FINAL UPDATE: The following is a mind dump. It might be useful, but it is not longer the exact path I took.

Instead I followed the scientist article, but when it came to creating the git user I followed the slicehost article for ubuntu (which I am on).

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Most all of this comes from the excellent article by scientist on hosting git repositories the easy and secure way with some adjustments for my own setup that you might find useful to get you started, especially if you’re a newb at this like me.

If you hosting your private projects on github is becoming to expensive you can do the following and host your projects with git on slicehost (or any vps for that matter) using gitosis.

First, let’s install git on our server.

I recommend installing from source. Some people ran into problems using apt-get (source)

# 1.5.6 as of Aug 14th, 2008

sudo apt-get remove git git-svn
mkdir ~/sources
cd ~/sources
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.6.tar.bz2
sudo apt-get build-dep git-core
tar xjf git-1.5.6.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.6/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Test that git is installed.

git --version
# git version 1.5.6

Good. Now you can delete all the contents of the ~/sources directory if you’d like.

Second, let’s install gitosis. (source)

cd ~/src
git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
cd gitosis
sudo python setup.py install #this hung me up for a while. I thought gitosis was installed, but it wasn't. I had to run sudo.

UPDATE: I just used my standard user already setup on slicehost.

After that installs setup your user. It could be different than ‘git’, but let’s just use ‘git’ as the user.

sudo adduser \
    --system \
    --shell /bin/sh \
    --gecos 'git version control' \
    --group \
    --disabled-password \
    --home /home/git \
    git

Now copy your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on your LOCAL COMPUTER to your server.

# on your LOCAL computer
cd ~/.ssh
cat id_rsa.pub
#copy and paste what spits out

# on your slicehost server
cd /tmp
sudo nano id_rsa.pub
# paste in what you copied from your local computer

Now let’s put your public SSH key into gitosis’ permission

cd ~
sudo -H -u scottmotte gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub
sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub

Next

sudo chmod 755 /home/scottmotte/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update
sudo chmod 755 /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update

Then back on your local machine account for the fact that I run ssh on a different port (put your port here)

sudo nano ~/.ssh/config

put this inside
Host www.example.com
Port 32767

UPDATE: The above didn’t work for me like the scientist post on hosting git repositories the easy and secure way said so I took a look at the git clone documentation and realized I could put ssh:// in front of the git clone string. Then I was able to add the port at the end of the string without it crapping out.
It didn’t work because I’m retarded and was doing sudo nano ~/.ssh/config on my server rather than locally. Make sure you do this locally.

cd ~/documents/code
git clone scottmotte@209.1.1.xxx:gitosis-admin.git
or
git clone ssh://scottmotte@209.1.1.xxx:32767/home/scottmotte/repositories/gitosis-admin.git