Premature End of Script Headers from git-http-backend

I am attempting to install git and Apache on Windows. I have installed MSYSGit 1.7.3 on my Windows 2008 server (x64). I selected that the git commands should work from a Windows command prompt when I installed msysgit.

I have added these lines to my http.conf file:

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT C:/Repositories
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ "C:/Progra~2/git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe/"

<Directory />
  Options +ExecCGI
  Allow from all
</Directory>

I created a repository (MKE_Playground.git). I added a file test.txt.

When I attempt to access the URL http://localhost/git/MKE_Playground.git I get this error in the Apache log:

[Tue Feb 01 15:56:09 2011] [notice] Child 1164: Child process is running
[Tue Feb 01 15:56:09 2011] [notice] Child 1164: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Feb 01 15:56:09 2011] [notice] Child 1164: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Tue Feb 01 15:56:09 2011] [notice] Child 1164: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Feb/2011:15:56:14 -0600] "GET /git/MKE_Playground.git HTTP/1.1" 500 539
[Tue Feb 01 15:56:14 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: git-http-backend.exe

I know that this means that the headers from the script were malformed. If I were writing the script I would check there, but I assume that the git backend typically provides correct headers. My take on this is that the git http backend failed for some reason. Where can I go to determine why it failed? Is there a Git log someplace?

Pat O

Solution

I have abandonded the idea of running Git on Windows. As such this is no longer an issue for me.

Thanks for your help.