If you use SELinux, there are a few things you'll need to take care of for cgit to work smoothly. (Most of these should be fixed in the official selinux-policy packages before cgit makes it into Fedora). 1. Enable the httpd_enable_cgi boolean $ setsebool -P httpd_enable_cgi 1 2. Set proper file contexts (These should be taken care of in the selinux-policy package before cgit makes it into stable Fedora versions.) a) The cache dir needs to be writable by the cgi # semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t "/var/cache/cgit(/.*)?" b) The git repositories need to be readable by the cgi # semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/var/lib/git(/.*)?" If your git repositories are somewhere other than /var/lib/git, use that path in the command above. If you have other confined daemons that need to access the git repositories, you may want to use public_content_t instead of httpd_sys_content_t. c) Run restorecon to update the contexts # restorecon -R /var/cache/cgit /var/lib/git