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Asked: 2026-05-20T07:49:37+00:00

I’ve been going a this for two days in a row now, and I’m

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I’ve been going a this for two days in a row now, and I’m giving up on finding the solution all by myself.
I am trying to set up Redmine on a server – that part went well. I am also trying to install a git repository, but although I’ve been able to clone and pull perfectly well via SSH, I’m having a rough time doing the same over HTTP.

First of all, here is the verbose git push error:

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$ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git push http://192.168.0.13/gitweb/Project master
* Couldn’t find host 192.168.0.13 in the _netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to 192.168.0.13 port 80 (#0)
* Trying 192.168.0.13… * 0x20ab4f0 is at send pipe head!
* Connected to 192.168.0.13 (192.168.0.13) port 80 (#0)

GET /gitweb/Project/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
Host: 192.168.0.13
Accept: /
Pragma: no-cache

  • The requested URL returned error: 403
  • Expire cleared
  • Closing connection #0
  • Couldn’t find host 192.168.0.13 in the _netrc file; using defaults
  • About to connect() to 192.168.0.13 port 80 (#0)
  • Trying 192.168.0.13… * 0x20ab4f0 is at send pipe head!

  • Connected to 192.168.0.13 (192.168.0.13) port 80 (#0)

    GET /gitweb/Project/info/refs HTTP/1.1
    User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
    Host: 192.168.0.13
    Accept: /
    Pragma: no-cache

  • The requested URL returned error: 403

  • Closing connection #0
    error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing http://192.168.0.13
    /gitweb/Project/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

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So there are obviously some misconfigured rights, eventhough I’ve temporarily chmodded my repository folder to 777.

I reckon you’ll also be interested in apache’s configuration:

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ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

[...snip...]

PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine
SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/cache/git/
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/

<Location "/git/">
    DAV on
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Git Repository"
    Require valid-user

    PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler

    RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=redmine;host=localhost"
    RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
    RedmineDbPass "XXXXXXX" 
    RedmineGitSmartHttp yes
</Location>

Alias /gitweb/ "/var/cache/git/public/"
<Location "/gitweb/">
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       Allow from 127.0.0.1
       Allow from localhost
    </Limit>
</Location>

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So if someone would be so kind as to give me a hint about what to do, I’d really be grateful. Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Okay, problem solved 🙂 This is the tutorial to follow to the letter:

    http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_configure_Redmine_for_advanced_git_integration

    In my case, the final entry looks like:

    PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine

Alias /git/ "/var/cache/git/public/"
<Directory "/git/">
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

<Location "/git/">
    DAV on
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "My Git Repository"
    Require valid-user

    PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler
    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler

    RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=redmine;host=localhost"
    RedmineDbUser "redmine" 
    RedmineDbPass "XXXXXXX" 
    RedmineGitSmartHttp yes
</Location>
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