# git-receive-pack missing credentials ? 6 messages from 2011-11-07 to 2011-11-16. Participants: François Dagorn, Tay Ray Chuan, Geoff Mets. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28875 ## François Dagorn, 2011-11-07 15:33 Subject: git-receive-pack missing credentials ? Message-ID: <4EB7FA3A.8070908@univ-rennes1.fr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EB7FA3A.8070908%40univ-rennes1.fr ``` Hello all, I'm experiencing problems when trying to set up a git repository managed by git-http-backend. I've done the following : - on the server side cd /git mkdir test13 git --bare init . >>> Initialized empty Git repository in /git/test13 /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-update-server-info chown -R apache.apache . - on the client side cd (project-directory) $ git init $ (add some files) $ git add . $ git commit -m 'Initial commit' git push http://git.istic.smw.fr/test13 master Username: Password: error: Cannot access URL http://git.istic.smw.fr/test13/, return code 22 fatal: git-http-push failed - apache acces_log 1) ip-address - metheuser [07/Nov/2011:16:17:31 +0100] "GET /test13/info/refs?service=git- receive-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "git/1.7.3.4" 2) ip-address - metheuser [07/Nov/2011:16:17:32 +0100] "GET /test13/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 23 "-" "git/1.7.3.4" 3) ip-address - - [07/Nov/2011:16:17:32 +0100] "PROPFIND /test13/ HTTP/1.1" 401 492 "-" "git/1.7.3.4" - what sounds strange to me : the 2 firsts requests are generated by my client side (wireshark used as a clue) but the third comes from the server side and the users credentials are missed ! - And also, I was hoping to use smart httpd and so the generated PROPFIND (DAV) is amazing. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. François Dagorn Université de rennes 1 France ``` ## Tay Ray Chuan, 2011-11-07 17:02 Subject: Re: git-receive-pack missing credentials ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CALUzUxpiOoY3Qy0oXzgioBGkZyBF_vpHV3OHm-DWfChR9pPHHA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4EB7FA3A.8070908@univ-rennes1.fr> ``` On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:33 PM, François Dagorn wrote: > - on the client side > >    cd (project-directory) >    $ git init >    $ (add some files) >    $ git add . >    $ git commit -m 'Initial commit' >    git push http://git.istic.smw.fr/test13 master > >        Username: >        Password: >        error: Cannot access URL http://git.istic.smw.fr/test13/, return code 22 >        fatal: git-http-push failed > > - apache acces_log > >  1) ip-address - metheuser [07/Nov/2011:16:17:31 +0100] >    "GET /test13/info/refs?service=git-     receive-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "git/1.7.3.4" >  2) ip-address - metheuser [07/Nov/2011:16:17:32 +0100] >    "GET /test13/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 23 "-" "git/1.7.3.4" >  3) ip-address - - [07/Nov/2011:16:17:32 +0100] >    "PROPFIND /test13/ HTTP/1.1" 401 492 "-" "git/1.7.3.4" > > - what sounds strange to me : the 2 firsts requests are generated by my client side >  (wireshark used as a clue) but the third comes from the server side and the users >  credentials are missed ! Can you update your git installation and try again? v1.7.3.4 sounds pretty old (almost a year). -- Cheers, Ray Chuan ``` ## François Dagorn, 2011-11-08 08:26 Subject: Re: git-receive-pack missing credentials ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20111108T091907-908%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` Tay Ray Chuan gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:33 PM, François Dagorn > > Can you update your git installation and try again? v1.7.3.4 sounds > pretty old (almost a year). > On the server side I'm using the last 1.7.7.2 and 1.7.3.4 is on the client side used for testing. When apache is configured to serve without authentication, everything is ok ! PS: I don't know where to report but there are mistakes (IMHO) in the git-http-backend man page : the LocationMatch directive cannot be used to restrict access to "receive-pack" because "receive-pack" does not take part of the URL but only in the QUERY_STRING. GET /test13/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack **** Cheers. François ``` ## François Dagorn, 2011-11-08 10:17 Subject: Re: git-receive-pack missing credentials ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20111108T111508-171%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` François Dagorn univ-rennes1.fr> writes: What happens : git-http-backend is not called at all ! ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-httpd-backend/ is not relevant, I don't know why. François ``` ## François Dagorn, 2011-11-08 10:50 Subject: Re: git-receive-pack missing credentials ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20111108T114722-414%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <4EB7FA3A.8070908@univ-rennes1.fr> ``` It was an ExecCGI issue : when adding "Options ExecCGI" on the directory hosting git repositories, everything was ok. François ``` ## Geoff Mets, 2011-11-16 17:19 Subject: Re: git-receive-pack missing credentials ? Message-ID: <1321463941686-7001142.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1321463941686-7001142.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Francois Reading this thread mirrored the exact problems I'm seeing but sadly your solution adding +ExecCGI didn't fix it. I'm guessing, like you, it's probably an apache config issue. Could you share your working apache.conf Many thanks ..............Geoff -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-receive-pack-missing-credentials-tp6970872p7001142.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ```