Re: [jetty-users] How to use Jetty as a Git server with the Smart HTTP p

[Joakim Erdfelt <joakim.erdfelt@xxxxxxxxx>]

CGI and FastCGI are different things.

CGI is an old school technique that forks a process to the configured script per request.

FastCGI doesn't call scripts or fork processes, it communicates with a persistent process over the FastCGI protocol.

That other process is basically a FastCGI Server.

Jetty used to have a CGI Servlet, but it's been removed as result of CVE-2023-36479.

I don't think `git-http-backend` has a FastCGI option.

You'd likely have to use a tool like `fcgiwrap` to make `git-http-backend` available via FastCGI.

- Joakim

On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:56 AM Julien via jetty-users <jetty-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello

I would like to use Git with Smart HTTP with Jetty instead of Apache HTTPD. I know that Jetty supports CGI thanks to FastCGI, I know how to activate the module, I saw the example for Wordpress in the documentation, but I have no idea about how to make it work with the CGI script git-http-backend. Is it doable with Jetty?

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