lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm      | 3 ++-
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwCoderepo.pm | 3 +--
 xt/solver.t                    | 4 ++--

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
index 5620bd0e6b6ce7a0f53f5959023c64ae6841b31f..174c75efcfe2a862b5585799bb061f5646364fb9 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ }
 
 sub parse_cgitrc {
 	my ($self, $cgitrc, $nesting) = @_;
-	$cgitrc //= $self->{'publicinbox.cgitrc'};
+	$cgitrc //= $self->{'publicinbox.cgitrc'} // return;
 	if ($nesting == 0) {
 		# defaults:
 		my %s = map { $_ => 1 } qw(/cgit.css /cgit.png
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ sub repo_objs {
 	my ($self, $ibxish) = @_;
 	my $ibx_code_repos = $ibxish->{coderepo} // return;
 	$ibxish->{-repo_objs} // do {
+		parse_cgitrc($self, undef, 0);
 		my $code_repos = $self->{-code_repos};
 		my @repo_objs;
 		for my $nick (@$ibx_code_repos) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwCoderepo.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwCoderepo.pm
index 99df39ef9cb9d8ac971d31733c2ede0e90808ed8..1a8754c44fd816f21efb87a485ef894a30952be0 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwCoderepo.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwCoderepo.pm
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ 	my ($self) = @_;
 	my $pi_cfg = $self->{pi_cfg};
 
 	# TODO: support gitweb and other repository viewers?
-	defined($pi_cfg->{'publicinbox.cgitrc'}) and
-		$pi_cfg->parse_cgitrc(undef, 0);
+	$pi_cfg->parse_cgitrc(undef, 0);
 
 	my $code_repos = $pi_cfg->{-code_repos};
 	for my $k (grep(/\Acoderepo\.(?:.+)\.dir\z/, keys %$pi_cfg)) {
diff --git a/xt/solver.t b/xt/solver.t
index 40a5f81fb0eb21f090aed59a851e3a1e503b7290..1b0af3d8cadf45a0d4827f913c04a591408d33da 100644
--- a/xt/solver.t
+++ b/xt/solver.t
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 my ($ibx_name, $urls, @gone);
 my $client = sub {
 	my ($cb) = @_;
-	for (@$urls) {
-		my $url = "/$ibx_name/$_";
+	for my $u (@$urls) {
+		my $url = "/$ibx_name/$u";
 		my $res = $cb->(GET($url));
 		is($res->code, 200, $url);
 		next if $res->code == 200;