So I need to set up a git server for one of the projects that I work with, so I figured I would document how to do it properly. Even though I am a huge fan of the web server nginx, this server in particular is already set up with apache2 so I will be serving cgit through apache2. Perhaps later I will add in an nginx config for cgit.

I am using a resh install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with all updates applies for my testbed while I write this, but the instructions should apply equally well to all versions of Ubuntu up to at least 11.10 (when it releases) and likely versions afterwards as well.

As usual, this is going to be a long one, so catch the rest after the linkeration..