A quick note on how to host your own git repos using git-http-backend proxied via nginx.

Requirements:

• Git
• nginx
• fcgiwrap

create a user for Git

useradd git

basic nginx config

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name git.yrdomain.org
        root /home/git;
        error_log /home/git/error.log;
        access_log /home/git/access.log;

        location ~ (/.*) {
                fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
                include       fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend;
                fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL "";
                fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/git;
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $1;
            }

}

create repos in /home/git

git init --bare reponame.git
cd reponame.git

With this very basic setup, the Git repo is shared publicly via HTTP. You can configure basic HTTP auth using nginx and push to the repo with HTTP, but I prefer using SSH to push.

Have fun!