I have been using NGINX for a while and really like it. You run into special cases depending on when you are trying to run any CGI stuff. I wanted to quickly document how to get it running on a Debian system. I will assume you are using /var/www as your web root and you have Debian. It all starts with apt-get install gitweb fcgiwrap then you need to symlink your new install like this: ln -s /usr/share/gitweb /var/www/.
You now need to tell nginx what to do and how, edit your default file (or wherever you set your vhosts) then add this:
location /gitweb/ { index index.cgi; include fastcgi_params; gzip off; if ($uri ~ "/gitweb/index.cgi") { fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket; } }
My fastcgi_params file is a bit different from the defaults, so I am adding this here, edit /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type; fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root; fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol; fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1; fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version; fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr; fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr; fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name; # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
Just do a service nginx restart and point your browser to /gitweb, all set!