Setting up node.js and MongoDB on a Raspberry Pi

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Al

I wanted to get node.js and mongoDB up and running on my pi. I’ve got a couple of pet projects which I’m going to tackle and I’ve decided to use the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js). The future, for now, is JavaScript and I’m looking to know enough to make informed decisions about my place in that future.

These are the steps that I followed to get it going …

First up, node.js …

Credit to: http://blog.rueedlinger.ch/2013/03/raspberry-pi-and-nodejs-basic-setup/

Before doing this step you want to check what the latest version is – go to http://nodejs.org/dist/ and browse, starting from the biggest number backwards, looking for a release that includes “linux-arm-pi” in the title. That’s the one to use in the following code snippet, for me it was v0.10.24/node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

sudo mkdir /opt/node
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.24/node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
tar xvzf node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
sudo cp -r node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi/* /opt/node
sudo nano /etc/profile

sudo mkdir /opt/node

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.24/node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

tar xvzf node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

sudo cp -r node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi/* /opt/node

sudo nano /etc/profile

add the following before “export PATH”

NODE_JS_HOME="/opt/node"
PATH="$PATH:$NODE_JS_HOME/bin"

1 2	NODE_JS_HOME="/opt/node" PATH="$PATH:$NODE_JS_HOME/bin"

That’s it! Next let’s get a server running so we can make sure it’s working … create the following content in a file called nodejs.sh

#!/bin/bash

NODE=/opt/node/bin/node
SERVER_JS_FILE=/home/pi/app/server.js
USER=pi
OUT=/home/pi/nodejs.log

case "$1" in

start)
echo "starting node: $NODE $SERVER_JS_FILE"
sudo -u $USER $NODE $SERVER_JS_FILE > $OUT 2>$OUT &
;;

stop)
killall $NODE
;;

*)
echo "usage: $0 (start|stop)"
esac

exit 0

#!/bin/bash

NODE=/opt/node/bin/node

SERVER_JS_FILE=/home/pi/app/server.js

USER=pi

OUT=/home/pi/nodejs.log

case "$1" in

start)

echo "starting node: $NODE $SERVER_JS_FILE"

sudo -u $USER $NODE $SERVER_JS_FILE > $OUT 2>$OUT &

;;

stop)

killall $NODE

;;

echo "usage: $0 (start|stop)"

esac

exit 0

then do the following to get it to run on pi boot

chmod 755 nodejs.sh
sudo cp nodejs.sh /etc/init.d
sudo update-rc.d nodejs.sh defaults

chmod 755 nodejs.sh

sudo cp nodejs.sh /etc/init.d

sudo update-rc.d nodejs.sh defaults

now for the server.js that will run our server

mkdir /home/pi/app
cd /home/pi/app
nano server.js

mkdir /home/pi/app

cd /home/pi/app

nano server.js

put the following in the server.js file

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function(req,resp) {
resp.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
resp.write("Hello World");
resp.end();

console.log("sample output to console");

}).listen(8080);

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function(req,resp) {

resp.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});

resp.write("Hello World");

resp.end();

console.log("sample output to console");

}).listen(8080);

then start the server

sudo /etc/init.d/nodejs.sh start

1	sudo /etc/init.d/nodejs.sh start

A quick visit to http://192.168.0.123:8080 should result in a nice “Hello World” message.

Finally a bit of tidying up in /home/pi/

rm nodejs.sh
rm -rf node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi
rm node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

rm nodejs.sh

rm -rf node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi

rm node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz

Next up – mongoDB

Credit to: https://github.com/RickP/mongopi and http://ni-c.github.io/heimcontrol.js/get-started.html

Note, the scons commands performs the build and will take a few hours each

sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential scons libpcre++-dev xulrunner-dev libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev
git clone git://github.com/RickP/mongopi.git
cd mongopi
scons
sudo scons --prefix=/opt/mongo install
scons -c
sudo nano /etc/environment

sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential scons libpcre++-dev xulrunner-dev libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev

git clone git://github.com/RickP/mongopi.git

cd mongopi

scons

sudo scons --prefix=/opt/mongo install

scons -c

sudo nano /etc/environment

add this before “export PATH”

PATH=$PATH:/opt/mongo/bin/

1	PATH=$PATH:/opt/mongo/bin/

Then set up a new db and configure it to start on boot:

sudo useradd mongodb
sudo mkdir /var/lib/mongodb
sudo chown mongodb:mongodb /var/lib/mongodb
sudo mkdir /etc/mongodb/
sudo sh -c 'echo "dbpath=/var/lib/mongodb" > /etc/mongodb/mongodb.conf'
cd /etc/init.d
sudo wget -O mongodb https://gist.github.com/ni-c/fd4df404bda6e87fb718/raw/36d45897cd943fbd6d071c096eb4b71b37d0fcbb/mongodb.sh
sudo chmod +x mongodb
sudo update-rc.d mongodb defaults
sudo service mongodb start

sudo useradd mongodb

sudo mkdir /var/lib/mongodb

sudo chown mongodb:mongodb /var/lib/mongodb

sudo mkdir /etc/mongodb/

sudo sh -c 'echo "dbpath=/var/lib/mongodb" > /etc/mongodb/mongodb.conf'

cd /etc/init.d

sudo wget -O mongodb https://gist.github.com/ni-c/fd4df404bda6e87fb718/raw/36d45897cd943fbd6d071c096eb4b71b37d0fcbb/mongodb.sh

sudo chmod +x mongodb

sudo update-rc.d mongodb defaults

sudo service mongodb start

You can test everything went ok by launching the MongoDB shell with the command “mongo” … see the docs for more info.

Job Done!

Looking for an RSS reader

Posted on April 6, 2014April 6, 2014 by Al

Ever since google axed their Reader product my news consumption hasn’t been the same. I tried out a few at the time and settled on theoldreader.com but I’ve come to realise that I wasn’t using it like I wanted to – google reader used to be the first thing I loaded whereas theoldreader was loaded only once a week.

I’ve made a switch to feedly to see how that goes instead – first impressions are promising – time will tell.

At the same time I tried out instapaper as I saw that feedly could add articles to that service – my trial was short and the account is now cancelled. I like the idea … but the first few articles I saved all had important images or videos embedded, not something that instapaper is targetting. I’ve resolved to use the feedly “save for later” feature and see how that goes.

Configure a reverse proxy in apache

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Al

After ensuring the following modules are loaded in the httpd.conf

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

1 2	LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

The following was added as virtual host:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName subdomain.myserver.com:80
    ProxyPass / http://192.168.0.123:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.0.123:8080/
</VirtualHost>

ServerName subdomain.myserver.com:80

ProxyPass / http://192.168.0.123:8080/

ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.0.123:8080/

</VirtualHost>

Job Done!

Setting up web ssh on a Raspberry Pi

Posted on April 5, 2014September 3, 2024 by Al

After a bit of research I found a product called GateOne that would enable me to use a web browser to connect to ssh using standard https – cool!

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
git clone https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne.git
cd GateOne
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..
sudo rm -rf GateOne
sudo gateone

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

git clone https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne.git

cd GateOne

sudo python setup.py install

cd ..

sudo rm -rf GateOne

sudo gateone

Then ctrl+c so we can edit the config

sudo vi /etc/gateone/conf.d/10server.conf

1	sudo vi /etc/gateone/conf.d/10server.conf

at the end of the line with origins, add the IP of the Pi, i.e. , “192.168.0.123” then restart the daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/gateone restart

1	sudo /etc/init.d/gateone restart

to check it out browse to https://192.168.0.123/

All that remains is to ensure it starts automatically on reboot – I think the update-rc.d script must be a bit buggy on the Pi. I ended up doing all of this as I was having some trial and error fun:

sudo update-rc.d gateone defaults
sudo update-rc.d gateone start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 80 0 1 6 .
cd /etc/rc2.d/
sudo mv K01gateone S01gateone

sudo update-rc.d gateone defaults

sudo update-rc.d gateone start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 80 0 1 6 .

cd /etc/rc2.d/

sudo mv K01gateone S01gateone

Next up – some authentication …

within /etc/gateone/conf.d/20authentication.conf the authenication type was changed to google

"auth": "google",

1	"auth": "google",

and the terminal configuration (/etc/gateone/conf.d/50terminal.conf) was modified to turn off the terminal for all users (allow: false) and then add it back on just for me:

// This is Gate One's Terminal application settings file.
{
    // "*" means "apply to all users" or "default"
    "*": {
        "terminal": { // These settings apply to the "terminal" application
            "commands": {"SSH": {"command": "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gateone-1.2.0-py2.7.egg/gateone/applications/terminal/plugins/ssh/scripts/ssh_connect.py -S '%SESSION_DIR%/%SESSION%/%SHORT_SOCKET%' --sshfp -a 'oUserKnownHostsFile=\\\"%USERDIR%/%USER%/.ssh/known_hosts\\\"'", "description": "Connect to hosts via SSH."}},
            "default_command": "SSH",
            "dtach": true,
            "enabled_filetypes": "all",
            "environment_vars": {"TERM": "xterm-256color"},
            "session_logging": true,
            "syslog_session_logging": false,
            "allow": false
        }
    },
    // "*" means "apply to all users" or "default"
    "user.upn=(my.email@gmail.com)": {
        "terminal": { // These settings apply to the "terminal" application
            "commands": {"SSH": {"command": "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gateone-1.2.0-py2.7.egg/gateone/applications/terminal/plugins/ssh/scripts/ssh_connect.py -S '%SESSION_DIR%/%SESSION%/%SHORT_SOCKET%' --sshfp", "description": "Connect to hosts via SSH."}},
            "default_command": "SSH",
            "dtach": true,
            "enabled_filetypes": "all",
            "environment_vars": {"TERM": "xterm-256color"},
            "session_logging": true,
            "syslog_session_logging": false,
            "allow": true
        }
    }
}

// This is Gate One's Terminal application settings file.

{

// "*" means "apply to all users" or "default"

"*": {

"terminal": { // These settings apply to the "terminal" application

"commands": {"SSH": {"command": "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gateone-1.2.0-py2.7.egg/gateone/applications/terminal/plugins/ssh/scripts/ssh_connect.py -S '%SESSION_DIR%/%SESSION%/%SHORT_SOCKET%' --sshfp -a 'oUserKnownHostsFile=\\\"%USERDIR%/%USER%/.ssh/known_hosts\\\"'", "description": "Connect to hosts via SSH."}},

"default_command": "SSH",

"dtach": true,

"enabled_filetypes": "all",

"environment_vars": {"TERM": "xterm-256color"},

"session_logging": true,

"syslog_session_logging": false,

"allow": false

}

// "*" means "apply to all users" or "default"

"user.upn=(my.email@gmail.com)": {

"terminal": { // These settings apply to the "terminal" application

"default_command": "SSH",

"dtach": true,

"enabled_filetypes": "all",

"environment_vars": {"TERM": "xterm-256color"},

"session_logging": true,

"syslog_session_logging": false,

"allow": true

}

Back in /etc/gateone/conf.d/10server.conf I added my external dns to the list of allowed origins and forwarded port 443 on my router to my Pi

Job done!

Getting a fresh Raspberry Pi on WiFi

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Al

After downloading the latest wheezy image from the raspberry pi site and flashing it onto the SD card using Win 32 Disk Imager I transferred the card into the Pi and powered it on. To use my approach it must have both the WiFi usb adaptor and an ethernet cable plugged in.

I then go to my router’s admin page and take a look to see what IP address has been allocated to the Pi’s ethernet link.

Then, using Putty, connect to the ssh using the credentials username: pi password: raspberry (all lowercase).

Once on, the following command were run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wicd-curses
sudo wicd-curses

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wicd-curses

sudo wicd-curses

Then navigate down (using the arrow keys) to my home network, then use the right arrow key to go and configure it. The only thing I put in the configuration was the setting to “Automatically connect” and the key to the network – then pressed F10 to save the config, the Q to quit.

Having done all that I shutdown the pi, unplug the ethernet cable and power it back on.

sudo shutdown -h now

1	sudo shutdown -h now

Back in my router’s admin page I can find out the new IP address of the Pi (and reserve it for future if I want).

Job done!

Handling exceptions for a whole application

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Al

In one of my C# Windows Forms Applications I had a problem whereby a third-party component was throwing an exception in another thread. The exception wasn’t causing any problems but it wasn’t being handled by anything.
Basically I wanted to catch the exception, log it for reference and possible future investigation, and then ignore it and carry on.

I started by adding event handlers to the exception events:

Application.ThreadException += Application_ThreadException;
Application.SetUnhandledExceptionMode(UnhandledExceptionMode.CatchException);
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException;

Application.ThreadException += Application_ThreadException;

Application.SetUnhandledExceptionMode(UnhandledExceptionMode.CatchException);

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException;

And then I added log4net to simply log the error and move on (added via NuGet Package Manager)

So my app.config had the following added:

<configSections>
	<section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,Log4net"/>
</configSections>
<log4net>
	<root>
		<level value="DEBUG" />
		<appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
	</root>
	<appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender" >
		<param name="File" value="C:\WebRotator\log.txt" />
		<param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
		<rollingStyle value="Size" />
		<maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
		<maximumFileSize value="1MB" />
		<staticLogFileName value="true" />
		<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
			<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss} - %-5p - %m%n" />
		</layout>
	</appender>
</log4net>

</configSections>

<root>

<appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />

</root>

</layout>

</appender>

</log4net>

And my main Program.cs ended up looking like this:

static class Program
{
	public static readonly ILog Logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Program));

	[STAThread]
	static void Main()
	{
		XmlConfigurator.Configure();

		Application.ThreadException += Application_ThreadException;
		Application.SetUnhandledExceptionMode(UnhandledExceptionMode.CatchException);
		AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException;

		Application.EnableVisualStyles();
		Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
		Application.Run(new frmRotator());
	}

	static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
	{
		LogException("CurrentDomain_UnhandledException", (Exception)e.ExceptionObject);
	}

	static void Application_ThreadException(object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)
	{
		LogException("Application_ThreadException", e.Exception);
	}

	private static void LogException(string exceptionArea, Exception e)
	{
		Logger.ErrorFormat("{0}: {1}", exceptionArea, e);
	}
}

static class Program

{

public static readonly ILog Logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Program));

[STAThread]

static void Main()

{

XmlConfigurator.Configure();

Application.ThreadException += Application_ThreadException;

Application.SetUnhandledExceptionMode(UnhandledExceptionMode.CatchException);

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException;

Application.EnableVisualStyles();

Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

Application.Run(new frmRotator());

}

static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)

{

LogException("CurrentDomain_UnhandledException", (Exception)e.ExceptionObject);

}

static void Application_ThreadException(object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)

{

LogException("Application_ThreadException", e.Exception);

}

private static void LogException(string exceptionArea, Exception e)

{

Logger.ErrorFormat("{0}: {1}", exceptionArea, e);

}

Job done!

Update SharePoint locale of all sites using Powershell

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Al

So I needed to ensure that all sites in my farm were formatting dates in the British format …
Powershell, once again, to the rescue! This is what I ended up with …

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell 
foreach ($app in Get-SPWebApplication)
{
	foreach ($site in $app.Sites)
	{
		foreach($web in $site.AllWebs)
		{
			Write-Host processing $web in site $site in app $app
			If ($web.locale -ne 2057)
			{
				$web.Locale = 2057; 
				$web.Update(); 
				Write-Host UPDATED $web in site $site in app $app
			}
		}
	}
}

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

foreach ($app in Get-SPWebApplication)

{

foreach ($site in $app.Sites)

{

foreach($web in $site.AllWebs)

{

Write-Host processing $web in site $site in app $app

If ($web.locale -ne 2057)

{

$web.Locale = 2057;

$web.Update();

Write-Host UPDATED $web in site $site in app $app

}

Output SharePoint group memberships with PowerShell

Posted on April 2, 2014April 2, 2014 by Al

So I had a need to get a csv that could tell me who was in which groups in which sites.
Powershell to the rescue! This is what I ended up with …
There may be a better way to do this but the main thing is that it works and it was quick!

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell 

function OutputRow($url, $group, $member) 
{
	$out = new-object psobject
	$out | add-member noteproperty url $url
	$out | add-member noteproperty group $group
	$out | add-member noteproperty member $member
	write-output $out
}

foreach ($app in Get-SPWebApplication)
{
	foreach ($site in $app.Sites)
	{
		OutputRow $site.Url "primary site owner" $site.owner
		OutputRow $site.Url "secondary site owner" $site.SecondaryContact

		foreach($web in $site.AllWebs)
		{
			if (!$web.HasUniqueRoleDefinitions)
			{
				OutputRow $web.Url "Everything Inherited from parent" ""
			}
			else
			{
				if ($web.RequestAccessEnabled)
				{
					OutputRow $web.Url "request access email" $web.RequestAccessEmail
				}

				foreach($group in $web.sitegroups)
				{
					if ($group.users.Count -eq 0)
					{
						OutputRow $web.Url $group.name "Empty Group" 
					}

					foreach ($user in $group.users) 
					{
						OutputRow $web.Url $group.name $user.name
					}
				}
			}
		}	
	}
}

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

function OutputRow($url, $group, $member)

{

$out = new-object psobject

$out | add-member noteproperty url $url

$out | add-member noteproperty group $group

$out | add-member noteproperty member $member

write-output $out

}

foreach ($app in Get-SPWebApplication)

{

foreach ($site in $app.Sites)

{

OutputRow $site.Url "primary site owner" $site.owner

OutputRow $site.Url "secondary site owner" $site.SecondaryContact

foreach($web in $site.AllWebs)

{

if (!$web.HasUniqueRoleDefinitions)

{

OutputRow $web.Url "Everything Inherited from parent" ""

}

else

{

if ($web.RequestAccessEnabled)

{

OutputRow $web.Url "request access email" $web.RequestAccessEmail

}

foreach($group in $web.sitegroups)

{

if ($group.users.Count -eq 0)

{

OutputRow $web.Url $group.name "Empty Group"

}

foreach ($user in $group.users)

{

OutputRow $web.Url $group.name $user.name

}

Saving electronics

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Al

Quite often things break – sometimes I’m able to fix them.

The way I see it is that if it’s broken and is going in the bin then I’ve got nothing to lose by taking it apart and trying to see if it can be fixed.

Most recently I had the external thermometer of a wireless weather station stop working. I was pretty sure some water had got into it so I dried it in the airing cupboard but it still wasn’t responsive. With nothing to lose I took it apart, saw that there was a fair amount of corrosion on the circuit board and almost gave up. Just on the off-chance that the components were still ok and the corrosion was causing a short I got an old toothbrush and cleaned it up.

Thermometer Board

Miraculously this worked and I’ve saved £35 on a replacement. Result!

To set up a git repository on a server

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Al

So because it’s on a server there is no working directory required – as a result we do a bare initialise in the folder that we want the repo to be in:

git init --bare

1	git init --bare

After that, to allow pushes to the server over http we need to run the following:

git config --file config http.receivepack true

1	git config --file config http.receivepack true

This will then work nicely with a virtual host in apache:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName git.server.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/my/git/

    SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /path/to/my/git/
    SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL

    ScriptAlias / /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
</VirtualHost>

ServerName git.server.com

DocumentRoot /path/to/my/git/

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /path/to/my/git/

SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL

ScriptAlias / /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/

</VirtualHost>

Also, make sure the user running apache has write permissions to the git repository folders.

Authentication

To add some basic authentication I have used the following 2 techniques:

To make an entire repository private:

<Location "/private/">
	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "Password Required"
	AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd
	Require user username
</Location>

AuthType Basic

AuthName "Password Required"

AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd

Require user username

</Location>

To make all repositories public for read and private for write:

<LocationMatch "^/.*/git-receive-pack$">
	Options +ExecCGI
	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "Git Access"
	AuthName "Password Required"
	AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd
	Require user username
</LocationMatch>

Options +ExecCGI

AuthType Basic

AuthName "Git Access"

AuthName "Password Required"

AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd

Require user username

</LocationMatch>

Web UI

Finally, I have used gitlist to provide a web ui to my repositories – to achieve this I used the standard approach documented here

My final config looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	<Location "/private/">
		AuthType Basic
		AuthName "Password Required"
		AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd
		Require user username
	</Location>

	<LocationMatch "^/.*/git-receive-pack$">
		Options +ExecCGI
		AuthType Basic
		AuthName "Git Access"
		AuthName "Password Required"
		AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd
		Require user username
	</LocationMatch>

    ServerName git.server.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/my/www/gitlist/

    SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /path/to/my/git/
    SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL

	ScriptAliasMatch \
        "(?x)^/(.*/(HEAD | \
                        info/refs | \
                        objects/(info/[^/]+ | \
                                 [0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \
                                 pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \
                        git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \
        /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1
</VirtualHost>

AuthType Basic

AuthName "Password Required"

AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd

Require user username

</Location>

Options +ExecCGI

AuthType Basic

AuthName "Git Access"

AuthName "Password Required"

AuthUserFile /path/to/my/conf/passwd

Require user username

</LocationMatch>

ServerName git.server.com

DocumentRoot /path/to/my/www/gitlist/

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /path/to/my/git/

SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL

ScriptAliasMatch \

"(?x)^/(.*/(HEAD | \

info/refs | \

objects/(info/[^/]+ | \

[0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \

pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \

git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \

/usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1

</VirtualHost>

Blue Phone Box

A personal site of tech, games, rpg's, pi and stuff

Setting up node.js and MongoDB on a Raspberry Pi

Looking for an RSS reader

Configure a reverse proxy in apache

Setting up web ssh on a Raspberry Pi

Getting a fresh Raspberry Pi on WiFi

Handling exceptions for a whole application

Update SharePoint locale of all sites using Powershell

Output SharePoint group memberships with PowerShell

Saving electronics

To set up a git repository on a server