Re: cant get git to work over http

From: Robert Haines <rhaines@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Feb 20, 2008, 10:39 UTC
Message-ID: <D5916873-1703-41A2-BDE8-97B3D9038194@manchester.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <e26d18e40802191153w691ac5fcl3fa972ca6503b9fb@mail.gmail.com>

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> i can do this:
>
> $ git-clone /var/www/localhost/htdocs/git/repo/ repo
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/aeyakovenko/projects/ 
> repo/.git/
> 1 block
>
> and i can do this:
>
> $ git-clone ssh://aeyakovenko@localhost/var/www/localhost/htdocs/ 
> git/repo/ repo
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/aeyakovenko/projects/repo/ 
> repo/.git/
> aeyakovenko@localhost's password:
> Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.
> remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
> remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>
> but for the life of me i cant do this:
>
> $ git-clone http://aeyakovenko@localhost/var/www/localhost/htdocs/ 
> git/repo/ repo
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/aeyakovenko/projects/ 
> repo/.git/
> Cannot get remote repository information.
> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?

What is the document root set to on your web server? It shouldn't be '/'! When doing git over ssh you need the whole path, but when over http you just need the path from the document root...

So I would expect that your http clone should be: $ git-clone http://aeyakovenko@localhost/git/repo/ repo

What happens when you point a web browser at either http:// aeyakovenko@localhost/var/www/localhost/htdocs/git/repo/ or http:// aeyakovenko@localhost/git/repo/ ?

Cheers, Rob