Re: MKCOL fails, 403 error

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am assisting the admin of dsource.org to get git working on their
> server. I have had problems but those were resolved by my upgrading to
> the most recent version of git (who'd have thought Ubuntu would not
> have a version newer than 1.5.2.5?) Let me give you the terminal
> output, the best explanation I have of my problem:
> 
> $ git push upload --force --all -v
> Pushing to http://git.dsource.org/projects/pineapple/
> Getting pack list
> Fetching remote heads...
>   refs/
>   refs/heads/
>    refs/tags/
> updating 'refs/heads/master'
>   from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>   to   aae4714c3d1150974612a9de2f86223dd6882b3c
>     sending 11 objects
>     done
> MKCOL 65f829e3b46d363c07ff4e534bb1a39a6660fa48 failed, aborting (22/403)
>      sent ce937eb2f7092823f0a491fdf0ab449440eb5365
> Updating remote server info
>     sent 367d34569b5d5223db05770d093e23bcc1c0ba89
>     sent c431db074337adc100edbe4be861f599b0d889ad
>     sent 65016e7e3c0d7654d6745b7de6d6a0840dd39150
> 
> In spite of the obvious problem, the 403 error, the user which I used
> to push to the remote server is in the apache group on that server.
> The apache group is both the owner and group of all of the files and
> directories in the git repository. Thus, I see no reason why it is
> getting a 403 error.
> 
> I am pretty sure the MKCOL has something to do with the fact that
> there is a directory in my local git repository which it doesn't seem
> to be able to create in the remote repository.
> 
> I was told to run git-fsck but it doesn't complain when I do run it.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?