Is it necessary to install gitweb?

Question

Is it necessary to install gitweb to the server or are there other ways to add gitweb with installed gitolite on the server?

Answer 1

gitolite is just an authorization layer, meaning it comes between your server (ssh or httpd) and git.

You don't need gitweb if you don't need to browse the content of the git repos with a web GUI.

But if you do, and you already have gitolite installed, then you would need to make gitweb call gitolite, and declare a gitweb category (otherwise, your user could see the content of repos they are not supposed to access).