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    <p>I am in the process of setting up a Git server (1.7.2.3) on a WS 2008 machine using Apache and git-http-backend.exe. I have been following a good tut <a href="http://www.jeremyskinner.co.uk/2010/07/31/hosting-a-git-server-under-apache-on-windows/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. I have the GUI working, I can annoymously clone and if I put the following in the config of a repo I can annoymously push:</p> <pre><code>[http] receivepack = true </code></pre> <p>I have added the following to the httpd.conf file:</p> <pre><code>SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT C:/GIT/Repositories SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL ScriptAliasMatch \ "(?x)^/(.*/(HEAD | \ info/refs | \ objects/(info/[^/]+ | \ [0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \ pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \ git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \ "C:/Program Files (x86)/git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe/$1" &lt;Directory /&gt; Allow from all &lt;/Directory&gt; &lt;LocationMatch "^/git/.*/git-receive-pack$"&gt; AuthType Basic AuthName "Git Access" AuthUserFile C:/GIT/ApacheConfig/users AuthGroupFile C:/GIT/ApacheConfig/groups Require group repogeneral &lt;/LocationMatch&gt; </code></pre> <p>When I add the "LocationMatch" I can still clone annoymously or by specifying a name in the URL, git clone <a href="http://jon@myserver.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jon@myserver.com</a></p> <p>It will prompt for a password and clone.</p> <p>but when I try to push back to the repo I get the following:</p> <p>error: Cannot access URL <a href="http://jon@myserver.com/newtestrepo.git/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jon@myserver.com/newtestrepo.git/</a>, return code 22 fatal: git-http-push failed</p> <p>I have been looking at the <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http-backend.exe man page</a> for examples but can not get them to work.</p> <p>here is my groups file, (this is just testing out examples so nothing that would be used in prod):</p> <pre><code>admin: jon steve admin webview: jon steve web repogeneral: jon steve testrepo: jon admin testrepo2: jon steve web </code></pre> <p>here is the users file:</p> <pre><code>jon:$apr1$kEKVExYx$guIF9oYV8buGhFLZr16XN0 steve:$apr1$jvgjF9nv$PvWsHH.cSOBN5ymk6NT1B0 admin:$apr1$vzXgDskN$oszCei3tkHNUgtLj2HkHF/ web:$apr1$wS0do7hb$VA9tsc9c9LwY5PcjfhdwK0 </code></pre> <p>I know the username jon works as if I put the directory requirement on the gui section I can login with the username jon no problem, (points at the same user and group files as the locationmatch does).</p> <p>I am not sure what configuration I have missed off at this point, (assuming its a configuration issue).</p> <p>Any advice on getting over this last hurdle would be fantastic.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>I have been playing some more and here is the information I have:</p> <p>if I clone a repo with:</p> <pre><code>git clone http://jon@myserver.com/remotetest.git </code></pre> <p>I can get the repository out, but when I try and push back with:</p> <p>git push origin master</p> <p>I get asked for my password, I enter it, then it asks for it again, then I get the following error:</p> <p>C:\temp\remotetest\remotetest>git push origin master Password: Password: error: Cannot access URL <a href="http://jon@myserver.com/remotetest.git/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://jon@myserver.com/remotetest.git/</a>, return code 22 fatal: git-http-push failed</p> <p>In my Apache access.log I get the following:</p> <pre><code>192.168.1.2 - - [29/Sep/2010:21:58:19 +0100] "GET /remotetest.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 38 192.168.1.2 - - [29/Sep/2010:21:58:51 +0100] "GET /remotetest.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1" 403 - 192.168.1.2 - - [29/Sep/2010:21:58:51 +0100] "GET /remotetest.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1" 200 - 192.168.1.2 - - [29/Sep/2010:21:58:51 +0100] "GET /remotetest.git/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 23 </code></pre> <p>Interestingly when I clone with the username in the URL it doesn't matter what password I put in, it will still work. I am assuming this is because I should be able to pull anonymously. Not sure why it asks for a password at all at that point.</p> <p>I also see this in the logs error:</p> <pre><code>[Wed Sep 29 22:33:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] client denied by server configuration: C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe [Wed Sep 29 22:33:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.2] client denied by server configuration: C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT 2</strong></p> <p>I tried recreating the password file by doing:</p> <pre><code>htpasswd -c -m C:/git/apacheconfig/users jon </code></pre> <p>but this didn't help.</p> <p><strong>EDIT 3</strong></p> <p>the PHP config in httpd.conf where it uses the same users file for basic auth:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"&gt; AuthName "GitUsers" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile C:/GIT/ApacheConfig/users AuthGroupFile C:/GIT/ApacheConfig/groups require group webview &lt;/Directory&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT 4</strong></p> <p>OK so I can get to cloning and pushing in annoymous mode happily, but authentication fails for the push.</p> <pre><code>C:\temp\test2\temp\test&gt;git push origin master Password: Password: error: Cannot access URL http://jon@192.168.10.97:8000/repositories/test.git/, return code 22 fatal: git-http-push failed </code></pre> <p>I changed the httpd.conf to use the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt; SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/repositories" SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL &lt;Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/repositories"&gt; Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all &lt;/Directory&gt; &lt;LocationMatch "^/repositories/.*/git-receive-pack$"&gt; AuthType Basic AuthName "Git Access" AuthUserFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/repositories/.htpasswd" Require valid-user &lt;/LocationMatch&gt; ScriptAliasMatch \ "(?x)^/repositories/(.*/(HEAD | \ info/refs | \ objects/(info/[^/]+ | \ [0-9a-f]{2}/[0-9a-f]{38} | \ pack/pack-[0-9a-f]{40}\.(pack|idx)) | \ git-(upload|receive)-pack))$" \ "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/$1" ErrorLog C:/GIT/error_log CustomLog C:/GIT/access_log combined &lt;/VirtualHost&gt; </code></pre> <p>Interestingly, when I created a new repo (git init --bare newrepo.git) It didn't create a info/refs file. I had to do the "git update-server-info" command to create that.</p> <p>The Apache Access logs have something interesting that could be a clue:</p> <pre><code>192.168.10.97 - - [05/Oct/2010:22:48:26 +0100] "GET /repositories/test.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 - 192.168.10.97 - - [05/Oct/2010:22:48:26 +0100] "GET /repositories/test.git/HEAD HTTP/1.1" 200 23 192.168.10.97 - - [05/Oct/2010:22:48:28 +0100] "PROPFIND /repositories/test.git/ HTTP/1.1" 405 248 </code></pre> <p>That is when I was trying to "push" back to the repo, but they are GET commands and no POST. not sure what the PROPFIND is, not found much info on that yet. I think, (reading around), there might be some sort of rewrite going on, that is changing the POST to a GET and killing it, or something. I am out of my depth at this point though.</p> <p>Thanks</p>
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