diff --git a/modules/services/web-servers/lighttpd/gitweb.nix b/modules/services/web-servers/lighttpd/gitweb.nix
index 88c63064a047..3c710e5b09ee 100644
--- a/modules/services/web-servers/lighttpd/gitweb.nix
+++ b/modules/services/web-servers/lighttpd/gitweb.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ let
   gitwebConfigFile = pkgs.writeText "gitweb.conf" ''
     # path to git projects (<project>.git)
     $projectroot = "${cfg.projectroot}";
+    ${cfg.extraConfig}
   '';
+
 in
 {
 
@@ -30,6 +32,14 @@ in
       '';
     };
 
+    extraConfig = mkOption {
+      default = "";
+      type = types.uniq types.string;
+      description = ''
+        Verbatim configuration text appended to the generated gitweb.conf file.
+      '';
+    };
+
   };
 
   config = mkIf cfg.enable {