Problems with git over http

> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
> 
> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
> fatal: exec http-push failed.
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/'
> 
> What can I do to try to debug this, as the error message isn't helping
> me to sort out what is wrong.  The client and server are both running
> git-1.5.x (although the minor versions are a bit different).  Any
> suggestions?

> Hello Sean,
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:13:53PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
>> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
>> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
>> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
>> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
>>
>> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
>> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
>> fatal: exec http-push failed.
>> error: failed to push some refs to
>> 'http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/'
>>
>> What can I do to try to debug this, as the error message isn't helping
>> me to sort out what is wrong.  The client and server are both running
>> git-1.5.x (although the minor versions are a bit different).  Any
>> suggestions?
> Try cloning first.  And check the error log of apache.  I don't know how
> pushing over http works, but maybe you installed git into /usr/local and
> /usr/local/bin is not in the PATH for the apache user?

> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
> 
> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
> fatal: exec http-push failed.
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/'

> "Sean Davis" <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> writes:
>
>> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
>> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
>> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
>> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
>>
>> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
>> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
>> fatal: exec http-push failed.
>> error: failed to push some refs to
>> 'http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/'
>
> Errr... to _push_ via https you have to enable WebDAV.
> See Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt

> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
>
> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
> fatal: exec http-push failed.

> "Sean Davis" <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> writes:
>
>> I am new to git and trying to set up a remote repository over http.  I
>> have configured apache2 and the bare, empty repository.  Using curl, I
>> can get the file HEAD without a password (seems .netrc is correct?).
>> However, when I try to push to the repository, I get the following:
>>
>> sdavis@lestrade:/tmp/testing> git push
>> http://sdavis@watson.nci.nih.gov/git/sean_git.git/ master
>> fatal: exec http-push failed.
>
> Do you have git-http-push somewhere? What does "git http-push" say?
>
> Probably you have a version of Git compiled with a too old libcurl
> (IIRC, it could have "worked", but a bug in the old libcurl could
> cause repository corruption, and therefore, git refuses to build
> http-push with such version of libcurl).