# http-push sends MKCOL command to create remote directory MKCOL http://user@server:80/url/.git/refs/ that already exists 2 messages from 2009-08-14 to 2009-08-15. Participants: willievu, Tay Ray Chuan. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20596 ## willievu, 2009-08-14 15:42 Subject: http-push sends MKCOL command to create remote directory MKCOL http://user@server:80/url/.git/refs/ that already exists Message-ID: <1250264521299-3445796.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1250264521299-3445796.post%40n2.nabble.com ``` Steps will reproduce the problem: 1. create a bare & shared repository locally and copy to remote server 2. create a local repository. add and commit some files 3. git push to the remote server $ git push --verbose --thin upload HEAD Pushing to http://user@server/url/.git/ Password: Fetching remote heads... refs/ refs/heads/ refs/tags/ updating 'refs/heads/master' using 'HEAD' from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to 0120f45ebfd90501868e990bfbb9f50fb0a8ebae <<<<< Here, a MKCOL http://user@server:80/url/.git/refs/ request is sent. The WebDAV server returns a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. Then, the following message continues: Unable to create branch path http://user@server/url/.git/refs/ Unable to lock remote branch refs/heads/master error: failed to push some refs to 'http://user@server/url/.git/' This is the server: Server: Oracle9iAS/9.0.2.3.0 Oracle HTTP Server (Unix) mod_plsql/9.0.2.6.0b DAV/1.0.3.2.4-0119 (OraDAV enabled) mod_osso/9.0.2.0.0 mod_ossl/9.0.2.0.0 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 mod_perl/1.26 mod_oc4j/3.0 Is MKCOL expected even for existing directory in the remote repository? Is this a WebDAV server problem that 500 is returned? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/http-push-sends-MKCOL-command-to-create-remote-directory-MKCOL-http%3A--user%40server%3A80-url-.git-refs--that-already-exists-tp3445796p3445796.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Tay Ray Chuan, 2009-08-15 01:28 Subject: Re: http-push sends MKCOL command to create remote directory MKCOL http://user@server:80/url/.git/refs/ that already exists Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/be6fef0d0908141828u1e426dc5nbf94b9a5db015943%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1250264521299-3445796.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM, willievu wrote: > Is MKCOL expected even for existing directory in the remote repository?  Is > this a WebDAV server problem that 500 is returned? Yes, you should expect MKCOLs to be done on directories that already exist. On my Apache server with WebDAV, when a MKCOL is done on a directory that already exists, it returns 405. Reading the WebDAV specs (http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc4918.html#rfc.section.9.3.1): 405 (Method Not Allowed) - MKCOL can only be executed on an unmapped URL. So this behaviour is accounted for in the spec itself, and git handles this too. What I think is that your server isn't implementing WebDAV right, or that you have some scripts/mods over the git repository you're serving that are failing leading to the 500 error. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan ```