# Git with http and no Dav?

1 messages from 2010-09-09 to 2010-09-09. Participants: Sensei.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25052

## Sensei, 2010-09-09 08:59

Subject: Git with http and no Dav?
Message-ID: <4F28769D-A026-4DA0-9BD4-094EA61EAF92@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4F28769D-A026-4DA0-9BD4-094EA61EAF92%40gmail.com

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Hi all!

I am starting to make some public repositories available, although I am struggling with the HTTP backend! 

My setup is currently this: authorized users make use of ssh in order to clone/push, and this works like a charm. A public view (only view!) of repositories can be obtained by gitweb, and this also works flawlessly. 

On my debian server though, I don't know how to enable public cloning via http, since I don't really want to use WebDAV, as explained on the "setup-git-server-over-http.txt" howto. 

As suggested, I issued the "git update-server-info" command in the repository location, however, this has no effect on the repository:

# git update-server-info

# ls refs/
heads  tags

My apache configuration regarding git is this:

(...)
	<Directory /var/www/site/git>
		Allow from all
		AllowOverride all
		Order allow,deny
		Options ExecCGI
		<Files gitweb.cgi>
			SetHandler cgi-script
		</Files>
		DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
	</Directory>
	SetEnv  GITWEB_CONFIG  /etc/gitweb.conf

	<Directory /home/git>
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
(...)


Anyway, I keep having the very same error (I tried also with different paths with no luck and the same error):

$ git clone http://my.site/home/git/repo
Cloning into repo...
fatal: http://my.site/home/git/repo/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?


There's something terribly naive that I'm missing here, I know!

Can you give me a hint?

Thanks & Cheers!

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