Gitweb 404 error Mac OS X

Asked Sep 10 '15 at 08:03

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I am trying to view a local git repository with instaweb.

At first, I tried the following command in a cloned repository :

git instaweb --httpd=webrick

to receive the following error :

Not Found
`/' not found.
WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/2.0.0/2014-05-08) at 127.0.0.1:1234

I installed lighttpd (I am on a Mac OS X Mavericks machine) and tried

git instaweb

to receive a 404 error.

I then installed created an entirely new git repository via

git init

and tried both of the above again, to no avail.

My .gitconfig file looks like this :

[web]
    browser = ff
[browser "ff"]
    cmd = open -a Firefox.app
[core]
    editor = emacs

The .git/gitweb/lighttpd/error.log file looks like this :

2015-09-10 00:35:52: (log.c.164) server started

Any help is appreciated.

asked Sep 10 '15 at 08:03

user5283407

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probably not the solution you're looking for but if you're on mac os I suggest you give [GitUp](http://gitup.co) a try – Frederic Henri Sep 10 '15 at 09:00

1 Answers1

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I had exactly the same symptoms using git 2.3.8, which came with my default installation (git version 2.3.8 (Apple Git-58)).

I installed git 2.6.0 via brew (brew install git) and it worked after that (git version 2.6.0).

answered Oct 05 '15 at 01:43

Azriel

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Awesome ! Didn't even think to do this (obviously). Thank you. I would +1 your answer if I had the reputation to... – user5283407 Oct 06 '15 at 15:28