Dear Monks

I am putting together an ajax web application and have decided to use Git behind the scenes.

Git::Wrapper seems the obvious choice but I am having some trouble when this is used through apache. E.g. if I run the following from the command line:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Git::Wrapper;

my $git = Git::Wrapper->new('/path/to/repo');
my @log = $git->log;


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><ul>\n";
print "<li>id: ${\$log[0]->id}</li>\n";
print "<li>author: ${\$log[0]->author}</li>\n";
print "<li>date: ${\$log[0]->date}</li>\n";
print "<li>message: ${\$log[0]->message}</li>\n";
print "</ul></body></html>";

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it works as expected delivering the web page to the terminal - however, when run in the browser it complains:

open3: exec of git version failed at /usr/local/share/perl5/Git/Wrappe
+r.pm line 112.

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Not a terribly informative error message! I've checked file permissions and am pretty sure these are not the issue. Beyond this I am stumped (the Git::Wrapper documentation does seem a little on the thin side).

Before I start wading through the module code to try and figure out what it is trying to do at the point when it falls over, I wondered if anyone had any experience of using Git::Wrapper with apache and could point me in the direction of what I need to do to get this to work?

Many thanks!

In reply to using Git::Wrapper with Apache by tomgracey

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