On 2026-01-24 08:34, [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
I have been trying to host a web site on a spare computer using Guix
System, which has been pretty straightforward and easy! I thought I'd
challenge myself and try to set up git hosting on the same machine, and
that is going a little less smoothly... I was hoping someone could
point me in the right direction.
Most of my configuration so far has been based on whatever I could
glean from the Guix manual and the explanations in this helpful blog
post by Karl Hallsby:
https://raven.hallsby.com/running-your-website-using-guix-system.html
but... the cgit service isn't cooperating at all, and my knowledge is
not good enough to troubleshoot what's going wrong. I can run the nginx
service for my main web site, or the cgit service, but not both at the
same time. I've attached what my services look like in the main
configuration file (I replace "website" with my domain when I want to
test it). Does anyone know what could be the problem?
Thank you.
An update from me: the regular web content and cgit+gitolite are working
together, finally. After a few days of hacking around, it was indeed the
missing line `(try-files
(list "$uri" "@cgit"))` which was the culprit... Adding it as well as
changing the lone `nginx-named-location-configuration` to
`nginx-location-configuration` with `(uri "@cgit")` got everything fixed
up. A huge help was one of David Thompson's configurations where he
seemed to be doing the exact same thing I wanted to do. I would
recommend anyone having trouble with something like this in future
browse through this machine config "takemi.scm" here:
https://git.dthompson.us/guix-config/tree/dthompson/machines/takemi.scm
Thank you to everyone who responded. Ciao!
