.. note:: At this moment, repository access via SSH has been tested on Unix

    only. Windows users that care about SSH are invited to test it and report

    problems, ideally contributing patches that solve these problems.

Users and admins can upload SSH public keys (e.g. ``.ssh/id_rsa.pub``) through

the web interface. The server's ``.ssh/authorized_keys`` file is automatically

maintained with an entry for each SSH key. Each entry will tell ``sshd`` to run

``kallithea-cli`` with the ``ssh-serve`` sub-command and the right Kallithea user ID

when encountering the corresponding SSH key.

To enable SSH repository access, Kallithea must be configured with the path to

the ``.ssh/authorized_keys`` file for the Kallithea user, and the path to the

``kallithea-cli`` command. Put something like this in the ``.ini`` file::

    ssh_enabled = true

    ssh_authorized_keys = /home/kallithea/.ssh/authorized_keys

    kallithea_cli_path = /srv/kallithea/venv/bin/kallithea-cli

The SSH service must be running, and the Kallithea user account must be active

(not necessarily with password access, but public key access must be enabled),

all file permissions must be set as sshd wants it, and ``authorized_keys`` must

be writeable by the Kallithea user.

.. note:: The ``authorized_keys`` file will be rewritten from scratch on

    each update. If it already exists with other data, Kallithea will not

    overwrite the existing ``authorized_keys``, and the server process will

    instead throw an exception. The system administrator thus cannot ssh

    directly to the Kallithea user but must use su/sudo from another account.

    If ``/home/kallithea/.ssh/`` (the directory of the path specified in the

    ``ssh_authorized_keys`` setting of the ``.ini`` file) does not exist as a

    directory, Kallithea will attempt to create it. If that path exists but is

    *not* a directory, or is not readable-writable-executable by the server

    process, the server process will raise an exception each time it attempts to

    write the ``authorized_keys`` file.

.. note:: It is possible to configure the SSH server to look for authorized

   keys in multiple files, for example reserving ``ssh/authorized_keys`` to be

   used for normal SSH and with Kallithea using

   ``.ssh/authorized_keys_kallithea``. In ``/etc/ssh/sshd_config`` set

   ``AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys_kallithea``

   and restart sshd, and in ``my.ini`` set ``ssh_authorized_keys =

   /home/kallithea/.ssh/authorized_keys_kallithea``. Note that this new

   location will apply to all system users, and that multiple entries for the

   same SSH key will shadow each other.

.. warning:: The handling of SSH access is steered directly by the command

    specified in the ``authorized_keys`` file. There is no interaction with the

    web UI.  Once SSH access is correctly configured and enabled, it will work

    regardless of whether the Kallithea web process is actually running. Hence,

    if you want to perform repository or server maintenance and want to fully

    disable all access to the repositories, disable SSH access by setting

    ``ssh_enabled = false`` in the correct ``.ini`` file (i.e. the ``.ini`` file

    specified in the ``authorized_keys`` file.)

The ``authorized_keys`` file can be updated manually with ``kallithea-cli

ssh-update-authorized-keys -c my.ini``. This command is not needed in normal

operation but is for example useful after changing SSH-related settings in the

``.ini`` file or renaming that file. (The path to the ``.ini`` file is used in

the generated ``authorized_keys`` file).

Setting up Whoosh full text search

----------------------------------

Kallithea provides full text search of repositories using `Whoosh`__.

.. __: https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/

For an incremental index build, run::

    kallithea-cli index-create -c my.ini

For a full index rebuild, run::

    kallithea-cli index-create -c my.ini --full

The ``--repo-location`` option allows the location of the repositories to be overridden;

usually, the location is retrieved from the Kallithea database.

The ``--index-only`` option can be used to limit the indexed repositories to a comma-separated list::

    kallithea-cli index-create -c my.ini --index-only=vcs,kallithea

To keep your index up-to-date it is necessary to do periodic index builds;

for this, it is recommended to use a crontab entry. Example::

    0  3  *  *  *  /path/to/virtualenv/bin/kallithea-cli index-create -c /path/to/kallithea/my.ini

When using incremental mode (the default), Whoosh will check the last

modification date of each file and add it to be reindexed if a newer file is

available. The indexing daemon checks for any removed files and removes them

from index.

If you want to rebuild the index from scratch, you can use the ``-f`` flag as above,

or in the admin panel you can check the "build from scratch" checkbox.

Integration with issue trackers

-------------------------------

Kallithea provides a simple integration with issue trackers. It's possible

to define a regular expression that will match an issue ID in commit messages,

and have that replaced with a URL to the issue.

This is achieved with following three variables in the ini file::

    issue_pat = #(\d+)

    issue_server_link = https://issues.example.com/{repo}/issue/\1

    issue_sub =

``issue_pat`` is the regular expression describing which strings in

commit messages will be treated as issue references. The expression can/should

have one or more parenthesized groups that can later be referred to in

``issue_server_link`` and ``issue_sub`` (see below). If you prefer, named groups

can be used instead of simple parenthesized groups.

If the pattern should only match if it is preceded by whitespace, add the

following string before the actual pattern: ``(?:^|(?<=\s))``.

If the pattern should only match if it is followed by whitespace, add the

following string after the actual pattern: ``(?:$|(?=\s))``.

These expressions use lookbehind and lookahead assertions of the Python regular

expression module to avoid the whitespace to be part of the actual pattern,

otherwise the link text will also contain that whitespace.

Matched issue references are replaced with the link specified in

``issue_server_link``, in which any backreferences are resolved. Backreferences

can be ``\1``, ``\2``, ... or for named groups ``\g<groupname>``.

The special token ``{repo}`` is replaced with the full repository path

(including repository groups), while token ``{repo_name}`` is replaced with the

repository name (without repository groups).

The link text is determined by ``issue_sub``, which can be a string containing

backreferences to the groups specified in ``issue_pat``. If ``issue_sub`` is

empty, then the text matched by ``issue_pat`` is used verbatim.

The example settings shown above match issues in the format ``#<number>``.

This will cause the text ``#300`` to be transformed into a link:

.. code-block:: html

  <a href="https://issues.example.com/example_repo/issue/300">#300</a>

The following example transforms a text starting with either of 'pullrequest',

'pull request' or 'PR', followed by an optional space, then a pound character

(#) and one or more digits, into a link with the text 'PR #' followed by the

digits::

    issue_pat = (pullrequest|pull request|PR) ?#(\d+)

    issue_server_link = https://issues.example.com/\2

    issue_sub = PR #\2

The following example demonstrates how to require whitespace before the issue

reference in order for it to be recognized, such that the text ``issue#123`` will

not cause a match, but ``issue #123`` will::

    issue_pat = (?:^|(?<=\s))#(\d+)

    issue_server_link = https://issues.example.com/\1

    issue_sub =

If needed, more than one pattern can be specified by appending a unique suffix to

the variables. For example, also demonstrating the use of named groups::

    issue_pat_wiki = wiki-(?P<pagename>\S+)

    issue_server_link_wiki = https://wiki.example.com/\g<pagename>

    issue_sub_wiki = WIKI-\g<pagename>

With these settings, wiki pages can be referenced as wiki-some-id, and every

such reference will be transformed into:

.. code-block:: html

  <a href="https://wiki.example.com/some-id">WIKI-some-id</a>

Refer to the `Python regular expression documentation`_ for more details about

the supported syntax in ``issue_pat``, ``issue_server_link`` and ``issue_sub``.

Hook management

---------------

Custom Mercurial hooks can be managed in a similar way to that used in ``.hgrc`` files.

To manage hooks, choose *Admin > Settings > Hooks*.

To add another custom hook simply fill in the first textbox with

``<name>.<hook_type>`` and the second with the hook path. Example hooks

can be found in ``kallithea.lib.hooks``.

Kallithea will also use some hooks internally. They cannot be modified, but

some of them can be enabled or disabled in the *VCS* section.

Changing default encoding

-------------------------

By default, Kallithea uses UTF-8 encoding.

This is configurable as ``default_encoding`` in the .ini file.

This affects many parts in Kallithea including user names, filenames, and

encoding of commit messages. In addition Kallithea can detect if the ``chardet``

library is installed. If ``chardet`` is detected Kallithea will fallback to it

when there are encode/decode errors.

The Mercurial encoding is configurable as ``hgencoding``. It is similar to

setting the ``HGENCODING`` environment variable, but will override it.

Celery configuration

--------------------

Kallithea can use the distributed task queue system Celery_ to run tasks like

cloning repositories or sending emails.

Kallithea will in most setups work perfectly fine out of the box (without

Celery), executing all tasks in the web server process. Some tasks can however

take some time to run and it can be better to run such tasks asynchronously in

a separate process so the web server can focus on serving web requests.

For installation and configuration of Celery, see the `Celery documentation`_.

Note that Celery requires a message broker service like RabbitMQ_ (recommended)

or Redis_.

The use of Celery is configured in the Kallithea ini configuration file.

To enable it, simply set::

  use_celery = true

and add or change the ``celery.*`` configuration variables.

Configuration settings are prefixed with 'celery.', so for example setting

`broker_url` in Celery means setting `celery.broker_url` in the configuration

file.

To start the Celery process, run::

  kallithea-cli celery-run -c my.ini

Extra options to the Celery worker can be passed after ``--`` - see ``-- -h``

for more info.

.. note::

   Make sure you run this command from the same virtualenv, and with the same

   user that Kallithea runs.

HTTPS support

-------------

Kallithea will by default generate URLs based on the WSGI environment.

Alternatively, you can use some special configuration settings to control

directly which scheme/protocol Kallithea will use when generating URLs:

- With ``https_fixup = true``, the scheme will be taken from the

  ``X-Url-Scheme``, ``X-Forwarded-Scheme`` or ``X-Forwarded-Proto`` HTTP header

  (default ``http``).

- With ``force_https = true`` the default will be ``https``.

- With ``use_htsts = true``, Kallithea will set ``Strict-Transport-Security`` when using https.

.. _nginx_virtual_host:

Nginx virtual host example

--------------------------

Sample config for Nginx using proxy:

.. code-block:: nginx

    upstream kallithea {

        server 127.0.0.1:5000;

        # add more instances for load balancing

        #server 127.0.0.1:5001;

        #server 127.0.0.1:5002;

    }

    ## gist alias

    server {

       listen          443;

       server_name     gist.example.com;

       access_log      /var/log/nginx/gist.access.log;

       error_log       /var/log/nginx/gist.error.log;

       ssl on;

       ssl_certificate     gist.your.kallithea.server.crt;

       ssl_certificate_key gist.your.kallithea.server.key;

       ssl_session_timeout 5m;

       ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;

       ssl_ciphers DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5;

       ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

       rewrite ^/(.+)$ https://kallithea.example.com/_admin/gists/$1;

       rewrite (.*)    https://kallithea.example.com/_admin/gists;

    }

    server {

       listen          443;

       server_name     kallithea.example.com

       access_log      /var/log/nginx/kallithea.access.log;

       error_log       /var/log/nginx/kallithea.error.log;

       ssl on;

       ssl_certificate     your.kallithea.server.crt;

       ssl_certificate_key your.kallithea.server.key;

       ssl_session_timeout 5m;

       ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;

       ssl_ciphers DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA:RC4-MD5;

       ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

       ## uncomment root directive if you want to serve static files by nginx

       ## requires static_files = false in .ini file

       #root /srv/kallithea/kallithea/kallithea/public;

       include         /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;

       location / {

            try_files $uri @kallithea;

       }

       location @kallithea {

            proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:5000;

       }

    }

Here's the proxy.conf. It's tuned so it will not timeout on long

pushes or large pushes::

    proxy_redirect              off;

    proxy_set_header            Host $host;

    ## needed for container auth

    #proxy_set_header            REMOTE_USER $remote_user;

    #proxy_set_header            X-Forwarded-User $remote_user;

    proxy_set_header            X-Url-Scheme $scheme;

    proxy_set_header            X-Host $http_host;

    proxy_set_header            X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

    proxy_set_header            X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

    proxy_set_header            Proxy-host $proxy_host;

    proxy_buffering             off;

    proxy_connect_timeout       7200;

    proxy_send_timeout          7200;

    proxy_read_timeout          7200;

    proxy_buffers               8 32k;

    client_max_body_size        1024m;

    client_body_buffer_size     128k;

    large_client_header_buffers 8 64k;

.. _apache_virtual_host_reverse_proxy:

Apache virtual host reverse proxy example

-----------------------------------------

Here is a sample configuration file for Apache using proxy:

.. code-block:: apache

    <VirtualHost *:80>

            ServerName kallithea.example.com

            <Proxy *>

              # For Apache 2.4 and later:

              Require all granted

              # For Apache 2.2 and earlier, instead use:

              # Order allow,deny

              # Allow from all

            </Proxy>

            #important !

            #Directive to properly generate url (clone url) for Kallithea

            ProxyPreserveHost On

            #kallithea instance

            ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:5000/

            ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:5000/

            #to enable https use line below

            #SetEnvIf X-Url-Scheme https HTTPS=1

    </VirtualHost>

If using SQLite, simply make a copy of the Kallithea database (``.db``)

file.

If using PostgreSQL, please consult the documentation for the ``pg_dump``

utility.

If using MariaDB/MySQL, please consult the documentation for the ``mysqldump``

utility.

Look for ``sqlalchemy.url`` in your configuration file to determine

database type, settings, location, etc. If you were running Kallithea 0.3.x or

older, this was ``sqlalchemy.db1.url``.

3. Activate or recreate the Kallithea virtual environment (if any)

------------------------------------------------------------------

.. note::

    If you did not install Kallithea in a virtual environment, skip this step.

For major upgrades, e.g. from 0.3.x to 0.4.x, it is recommended to create a new

virtual environment, rather than reusing the old. For minor upgrades, e.g.

within the 0.4.x range, this is not really necessary (but equally fine).

To create a new virtual environment, please refer to the appropriate

installation page for details. After creating and activating the new virtual

environment, proceed with the rest of the upgrade process starting from the next

section.

To reuse the same virtual environment, first activate it, then verify that you

are using the correct environment by running::

    pip freeze

This will list all packages installed in the current environment. If

Kallithea isn't listed, deactivate the environment and then activate the correct

one, or recreate a new environment. See the appropriate installation page for

details.

4. Install new version of Kallithea

-----------------------------------

Please refer to the instructions for the installation method you

originally used to install Kallithea.

If you originally installed using pip, it is as simple as::

    pip install --upgrade kallithea

If you originally installed from version control, assuming you did not make

private changes (in which case you should adapt the instructions accordingly)::

    cd my-kallithea-clone

    hg parent   # make a note of the original revision

    hg pull

    hg update

    hg parent   # make a note of the new revision

    pip install --upgrade -e .

.. _upgrade_config:

5. Upgrade your configuration

-----------------------------

Run the following command to create a new configuration (``.ini``) file::

    kallithea-cli config-create new.ini

Then compare it with your old config file and copy over the required

configuration values from the old to the new file.

.. note::

    Please always make sure your ``.ini`` files are up to date. Errors

    can often be caused by missing parameters added in new versions.

.. _upgrade_db:

6. Upgrade your database

------------------------

.. note::

    If you are *downgrading* Kallithea, you should perform the database

    migration step *before* installing the older version. (That is,

    always perform migrations using the most recent of the two versions

    you're migrating between.)

First, run the following command to see your current database version::

    alembic -c new.ini current

Typical output will be something like "9358dc3d6828 (head)", which is

the current Alembic database "revision ID". Write down the entire output

for troubleshooting purposes.

The output will be empty if you're upgrading from Kallithea 0.3.x or

older. That's expected. If you get an error that the config file was not

found or has no ``[alembic]`` section, see the next section.

Next, if you are performing an *upgrade*: Run the following command to

upgrade your database to the current Kallithea version::

    alembic -c new.ini upgrade head

If you are performing a *downgrade*: Run the following command to

downgrade your database to the given version::

    alembic -c new.ini downgrade 0.4

Alembic will show the necessary migrations (if any) as it executes them.

If no "ERROR" is displayed, the command was successful.

Should an error occur, the database may be "stranded" half-way

through the migration, and you should restore it from backup.

Enabling old Kallithea config files for Alembic use

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Kallithea configuration files created before the introduction of Alembic

(i.e. predating Kallithea 0.4) need to be updated for use with Alembic.

Without this, Alembic will fail with an error like this::

    FAILED: No config file 'my.ini' found, or file has no '[alembic]' section

.. note::

    If you followed this upgrade guide correctly, you will have created a

    new configuration file in section :ref:`Upgrading your configuration

    <upgrade_config>`. When calling Alembic, make

    sure to use this new config file. In this case, you should not get any

    errors and the below manual steps should not be needed.

If Alembic complains specifically about a missing ``alembic.ini``, it is

likely because you did not specify a config file using the ``-c`` option.

On the other hand, if the mentioned config file actually exists, you

need to append the following lines to it::

    [alembic]

    script_location = kallithea:alembic

Your config file should now work with Alembic.

7. Prepare the front-end

------------------------

Starting with Kallithea 0.4, external front-end dependencies are no longer

shipped but need to be downloaded and/or generated at installation time. Run the

following command::

    kallithea-cli front-end-build

8. Rebuild the Whoosh full-text index

-------------------------------------

It is recommended that you rebuild the Whoosh index after upgrading since

new Whoosh versions can introduce incompatible index changes.

9. Start the Kallithea web application

--------------------------------------

This step once again depends entirely on the web server software used to

serve Kallithea.

If you were running Kallithea 0.3.x or older and were using ``paster serve

my.ini`` before, then the corresponding command in Kallithea 0.4 and later is::

    gearbox serve -c new.ini

Before starting the new version of Kallithea, you may find it helpful to

clear out your log file so that new errors are readily apparent.

.. note::

    If you're using Celery, make sure you restart all instances of it after

    upgrade.

10. Reinstall internal Git repository hooks

-------------------------------------------

It is possible that an upgrade involves changes to the Git hooks installed by

Kallithea. As these hooks are created inside the repositories on the server

filesystem, they are not updated automatically when upgrading Kallithea itself.

To update the hooks of your Git repositories, run::

    kallithea-cli repo-scan -c my.ini --install-git-hooks

Or:

* Go to *Admin > Settings > Remap and Rescan*

* Select the checkbox *Install Git hooks*

* Click the button *Rescan repositories*

.. note::

    Kallithea does not use hooks on Mercurial repositories. This step is thus

    not necessary if you only have Mercurial repositories.

.. _troubleshooting:

===============

Troubleshooting

===============

:Q: **Missing static files?**

:A: Make sure either to set the ``static_files = true`` in the .ini file or

   double check the root path for your http setup. It should point to

   for example:

   ``/home/my-virtual-python/lib/python3.7/site-packages/kallithea/public``

|

:Q: **Can't install celery/rabbitmq?**

:A: Don't worry. Kallithea works without them, too. No extra setup is required.

    Try out the great Celery docs for further help.

|

:Q: **Long lasting push timeouts?**

:A: Make sure you set a longer timeout in your proxy/fcgi settings. Timeouts

    are caused by the http server and not Kallithea.

|

:Q: **Large pushes timeouts?**

:A: Make sure you set a proper ``max_body_size`` for the http server. Very often

    Apache, Nginx, or other http servers kill the connection due to to large

    body.

|

:Q: **Apache doesn't pass basicAuth on pull/push?**

:A: Make sure you added ``WSGIPassAuthorization true``.

|

:Q: **Git fails on push/pull?**

:A: Make sure you're using a WSGI http server that can handle chunked encoding

    such as ``waitress`` or ``gunicorn``.

|

:Q: **How can I use hooks in Kallithea?**

:A: If using Mercurial, use *Admin > Settings > Hooks* to install

    global hooks. Inside the hooks, you can use the current working directory to

    control different behaviour for different repositories.

    If using Git, install the hooks manually in each repository, for example by

    creating a file ``gitrepo/hooks/pre-receive``.

    Note that Kallithea uses the ``post-receive`` hook internally.

    Kallithea will not work properly if another post-receive hook is installed instead.

    You might also accidentally overwrite your own post-receive hook with the Kallithea hook.

    You can also use Kallithea-extensions to connect to callback hooks,

    for both Git and Mercurial.

|

:Q: **Kallithea is slow for me, how can I make it faster?**

:A: See the :ref:`performance` section.

|

:Q: **UnicodeDecodeError on Apache mod_wsgi**

:A: Please read: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/#if-you-get-a-unicodeencodeerror.

|

:Q: **Requests hanging on Windows**

:A: Please try out with disabled Antivirus software, there are some known problems with Eset Antivirus. Make sure

    you have installed the latest Windows patches (especially KB2789397).

.. _python: http://www.python.org/

.. _mercurial: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/

.. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _rabbitmq: http://www.rabbitmq.com/

.. _python-ldap: http://www.python-ldap.org/

"""Kallithea Git hook

This hook is installed and maintained by Kallithea. It will be overwritten

by Kallithea - don't customize it manually!

When Kallithea invokes Git, the KALLITHEA_EXTRAS environment variable will

contain additional info like the Kallithea instance and user info that this

hook will use.

"""

import os

import sys

import kallithea.bin.vcs_hooks

# Set output mode on windows to binary for stderr.

# This prevents python (or the windows console) from replacing \n with \r\n.

# Git doesn't display remote output lines that contain \r,

# and therefore without this modification git would display empty lines

# instead of the exception output.

if sys.platform == "win32":

    import msvcrt

    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)

KALLITHEA_HOOK_VER = '_TMPL_'

os.environ['KALLITHEA_HOOK_VER'] = KALLITHEA_HOOK_VER

def main():

    repo_path = os.path.abspath('.')

    git_stdin_lines = sys.stdin.readlines()

if __name__ == '__main__':

    main()