Diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | MANUAL.txt | 14 |
1 file changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -900,15 +900,11 @@ environment variable. Macro expansion will also happen on the content of $CGIT_CONFIG, if defined. -The set of available variables is not fixed by cgit. The options above are -expanded while the configuration is parsed, against whatever environment the web -server hands the cgit process, so any variable the server sets can be used. A -CGI server provides the standard request variables, among them $HTTP_HOST, -$HTTPS, $PATH_INFO, $QUERY_STRING, $REQUEST_METHOD, $SCRIPT_NAME, $SERVER_NAME -and $SERVER_PORT, and server directives such as SetEnv (Apache), fastcgi_param -(nginx) or setenv.add-environment (lighttpd) can add anything else. cgit unsets -$HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME before reading its configuration, so those two never -expand. +The options above are expanded while the configuration is parsed. Any variable +in the environment the web server hands cgit can be used, from the CGI request +variables such as $HTTP_HOST to anything set with SetEnv (Apache), fastcgi_param +(nginx) or setenv.add-environment (lighttpd). cgit unsets $HOME and +$XDG_CONFIG_HOME before reading its configuration, so those two never expand. One usage of this feature is virtual hosting, which in its simplest form can be accomplished by adding a line like this one to /etc/cgitrc. |