'XML parsing error when trying to configure gitweb after installing BugZilla perl dependencies
I installed and configured git, gitolite and gitweb on a personal sever it works fine at the begining and I had my web view on my repositories. but when I tried to install BugZilla (with all perl dependencies) I had a an error message on the racine of my gitweb URL:
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/gitweb/ Line Number 22, Column 1:
The generated web page (firebug):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">
<!-- git web interface version 1.7.10.4, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <[email protected]>, Christian Gierke -->
<!-- git core binaries version 1.7.10.4 -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta name="generator" content="gitweb/1.7.10.4 git/1.7.10.4"/>
<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
<title>xxx.xxx.xx.xx Git</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/gitweb.css"/>
<link rel="alternate" title="xxx.xxx.xx.xx Git projects list" href="/gitweb/?a=project_index" type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="alternate" title="xxx.xxx.xx.xx Git projects feeds" href="/gitweb/?a=opml" type="text/x-opml" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="static/git-favicon.png" type="image/png" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="page_header">
<a href="http://git-scm.com/" title="git homepage"><img alt="git" class="logo" height="27" src="static/git-logo.png" width="72" /></a><a href="/gitweb/">projects</a> / </div>
<div class="projsearch">
Content-type: text/html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">
<!-- git web interface version 1.7.10.4, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <[email protected]>, Christian Gierke -->
<!-- git core binaries version 1.7.10.4 -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta name="generator" content="gitweb/1.7.10.4 git/1.7.10.4"/>
<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
<title>xxx.xxx.xx.xx Git</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/gitweb.css"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="static/git-favicon.png" type="image/png" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="page_header">
<a href="http://git-scm.com/" title="git homepage"><img alt="git" class="logo" height="27" src="static/git-logo.png" width="72" /></a><a href="/gitweb/">projects</a> / </div>
<div class="page_body">
<br /><br />
500 - Internal Server Error
<br />
<hr />
Can't locate object method "startform" via package "CGI" at /usr/share/gitweb/index.cgi line 5267.
</div>
<div class="page_footer">
<a class="rss_logo" href="/gitweb/?a=opml">OPML</a> <a class="rss_logo" href="/gitweb/?a=project_index">TXT</a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="static/gitweb.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
var tz_cookie = { name: 'gitweb_tz', expires: 14, path: '/' };
onloadTZSetup('local', tz_cookie, 'datetime');
};
</script>
</body>
</html>
I think that this error is due to the perl modules installed when I tried to install BugZilla.
How to de-install all perl modules and re-install default modules?
I use Apache as web server.
Does anyone have any idea on how to solve this?
UPDATE1:
My perl version is : v5.14.2
CGI version: 4.21
Solution 1:[1]
Had the same error message for gitweb with apache on Ubuntu after upgrading to 16.04. As stated by Slion, changing the two instances of "startform" to "start_form" in gitweb.cgi worked and I could use gitweb as before.
Solution 2:[2]
In my case, the commands below worked like a charm on Arch Linux.
$ sudo pacman -Rs perl-cgi #uninstalls
$ sudo pacman -S perl #updates to the latest version
$ sudo pacman -S perl-cgi #installs
(You may think this is the same as sudo pacman -S perl-cgi but, in my case, perl-cgi was already latest. Though perhaps just upgrading perl will do, the commands above are what I did anyway.)
I found this solution because I encountered the error on my server (with perl 5.30.2) after succeeding a simple test on my main desktop computer (with perl 5.30.3).
Solution 3:[3]
On Windows with either ActivePerl or Strawberry 5.22 I was getting that same error. Installing CGI module and replacing both "startform" instances in gitweb.cgi with "start_form" fixed the problem.
However I still could not get gitweb to list my projects for some reason. Git version is 1.9.5.
Solution 4:[4]
This error () might not be present with Git 2.36 (Q2 2022, seven years later), which removes the unneeded <meta http-equiv=content-type...> from gitweb output.
See commit a262585, commit 943fd02 (08 Mar 2022) by Jason Yundt (Jayman2000).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit bc3838b, 21 Mar 2022)
gitweb: remove invalidhttp-equiv="content-type"Signed-off-by: Jason Yundt
Before this change,
gitwebwould generate pages which included:<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"/>When a meta's
http-equivequals "content-type", thehttp-equivis said to be in the "Encoding declaration state".
According to the HTML Standard:The Encoding declaration state may be used in HTML documents, but elements with an
http-equivattribute in that state must not be used in XML documents.(Source)
This change removes that meta element since
gitwebalways generates XML documents.
Sources
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | djoerch |
| Solution 2 | |
| Solution 3 | Slion |
| Solution 4 | VonC |