Question

I am trying to have a git ‘post-receive’ on my server. I am using the following code on the hook file:

#!/bin/bash
#CONFIG
LIVE="/home/ubuntu/public_html/testing"

read oldrev newrev refname
if [ $refname = "refs/heads/master" ]; then
  echo "===== DEPLOYING TO LIVE SITE ====="
  unset GIT_DIR  
  cd $LIVE
 # ssh-agent $BASH
 # ssh-add /home/ubuntu/.ssh/ubuntu
  git pull --verbose origin  master || echo "git-pull: returned error code"     
  echo "===== DONE ====="
fi

It is showing the following error mesasge whenever I am trying to push something from my local pc to server:

===== DEPLOYING TO LIVE SITE =====
remote: error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied
remote: 
remote: git-pull: returned error code
remote: ===== DONE =====

Can anyone please help what can be the issue?

Just to confirm, I have tried with the same user credential to run the command via ssh terminal and it worked fine.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

At last, I did able to solve it by changing the ownership of the directory(/home/ubuntu/public_html/testing) to the user who is commiting/running hook.