Example nginx + git HTTP Smart mode (git-http-backend) + HTTP Authentication + HTTPS redirect

server-git.conf

# Example nginx + git HTTP Smart mode (git-http-backend) + HTTP Authentication + HTTPS redirect
# [email protected] - http://jeroen.massar.ch
 
server {
  listen  192.0.1.1:80;
  listen  [2001:db8::1]:80;
 
  # Redirect all non-HTTPS traffic to the HTTPS variant
  return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
 
server {
  listen  192.0.1.1:443;
  listen  [2001:db8::1]:443;
 
	root /www/empty/;
	index index.html;
 
	server_name git.example.com;
	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
 
	#error_page 404 /404.html;
 
  # ... ssl params ...
 
	auth_basic            "Restricted";
	auth_basic_user_file  /www/htpasswd;
 
  location ~ /git(/.*) {
    # Set chunks to unlimited, as the body's can be huge
		client_max_body_size			0;
 
		fastcgi_param	SCRIPT_FILENAME		/usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend;
		include		fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param	GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL	"";
		fastcgi_param	GIT_PROJECT_ROOT	/git;
		fastcgi_param	PATH_INFO		$1;
	
		# Forward REMOTE_USER as we want to know when we are authenticated
		fastcgi_param	REMOTE_USER		$remote_user;
		fastcgi_pass	unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
	}
}

could never get this to work. looks like the git repositories would need to be under /www/empty/git/, but even then it's returning 502 errors through fcgiwrap

This saved my day.

Always hit error '1 upstream prematurely closed FastCGI stdout while reading response header from upstream' on this. git over http still cannot work for me...

Has anyone got this working on nginx/1.10.1?

Nice. It works for me....

please guys anyone help me because i need to Using SSH over the HTTPS port for cloning

Hi Guys,

I was running four node servers using

Configuring multiple applications on same port using nginx reverse proxy based on request urls

its working but the bundles files cannot loaded. I am stuck. Please Help

on Browser Console

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost/inline.bundle.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost/scripts.bundle.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost/vendor.bundle.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost/main.bundle.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost/styles.bundle.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

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How to authenticate using auth server? Something like this https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-subrequest-authentication/

@igor

How to authenticate using auth server? Something like this https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-subrequest-authentication/

That could do the trick, don't forget to remove the auth_basic + auh_basic_user_file directives in that case.