11.4 Configuring the Server for Gitosis
Gitosis requires two things in order to run on your server. It must have its own user on the server and a directory to store all your repositories.
Each operating system has a slightly different way for
adding new users. In most Linux distributions,
you can use the adduser
command.
Gitosis needs a new user on the system. Their home directory
is where Gitosis stores its configuration values and
its repositories. You can specify the home directory on most
Linux systems by adding
--home /path/to/home.
The home path can be located anywhere on the system that you want.
The convention within Gitosis is to put it in
/srv/example.com/git—changing
example.com out for your domain—but that
isn’t required.
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