MKCOL fails, 403 error

MKCOL fails, 403 error

[Alan Smith]

Hello everyone,

I am assisting the admin of dsource.org to get git working on their
server. I have had problems but those were resolved by my upgrading to
the most recent version of git (who'd have thought Ubuntu would not
have a version newer than 1.5.2.5?) Let me give you the terminal
output, the best explanation I have of my problem:

$ git push upload --force --all -v
Pushing to http://git.dsource.org/projects/pineapple/
Getting pack list
Fetching remote heads...
  refs/
  refs/heads/
   refs/tags/
updating 'refs/heads/master'
  from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  to   aae4714c3d1150974612a9de2f86223dd6882b3c
    sending 11 objects
    done
MKCOL 65f829e3b46d363c07ff4e534bb1a39a6660fa48 failed, aborting (22/403)
     sent ce937eb2f7092823f0a491fdf0ab449440eb5365
Updating remote server info
    sent 367d34569b5d5223db05770d093e23bcc1c0ba89
    sent c431db074337adc100edbe4be861f599b0d889ad
    sent 65016e7e3c0d7654d6745b7de6d6a0840dd39150

In spite of the obvious problem, the 403 error, the user which I used
to push to the remote server is in the apache group on that server.
The apache group is both the owner and group of all of the files and
directories in the git repository. Thus, I see no reason why it is
getting a 403 error.

I am pretty sure the MKCOL has something to do with the fact that
there is a directory in my local git repository which it doesn't seem
to be able to create in the remote repository.

I was told to run git-fsck but it doesn't complain when I do run it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Peace, Alan

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Re: MKCOL fails, 403 error

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:39:04AM -0500, Alan Smith wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am assisting the admin of dsource.org to get git working on their
> server. I have had problems but those were resolved by my upgrading to
> the most recent version of git (who'd have thought Ubuntu would not
> have a version newer than 1.5.2.5?) Let me give you the terminal
> output, the best explanation I have of my problem:
> 
> $ git push upload --force --all -v
> Pushing to http://git.dsource.org/projects/pineapple/
> Getting pack list
> Fetching remote heads...
>   refs/
>   refs/heads/
>    refs/tags/
> updating 'refs/heads/master'
>   from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>   to   aae4714c3d1150974612a9de2f86223dd6882b3c
>     sending 11 objects
>     done
> MKCOL 65f829e3b46d363c07ff4e534bb1a39a6660fa48 failed, aborting (22/403)
>      sent ce937eb2f7092823f0a491fdf0ab449440eb5365
> Updating remote server info
>     sent 367d34569b5d5223db05770d093e23bcc1c0ba89
>     sent c431db074337adc100edbe4be861f599b0d889ad
>     sent 65016e7e3c0d7654d6745b7de6d6a0840dd39150
> 
> In spite of the obvious problem, the 403 error, the user which I used
> to push to the remote server is in the apache group on that server.
> The apache group is both the owner and group of all of the files and
> directories in the git repository. Thus, I see no reason why it is
> getting a 403 error.
> 
> I am pretty sure the MKCOL has something to do with the fact that
> there is a directory in my local git repository which it doesn't seem
> to be able to create in the remote repository.
> 
> I was told to run git-fsck but it doesn't complain when I do run it.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Do you have access to the apache error_log ?

Mike

Re: MKCOL fails, 403 error

[Alan Smith]

Mike,

I do have access to the log at /var/logs/apache2/error_log. What
should I be looking for?

Thanks, Alan

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My blog: lifelover.blogetery.com
My old blog: cocoalatte.info

// Things I've said -------------------------
"Maturity resides in the mind."
"Silence is the Universe's greatest gift."
"When the World realizes that personal beliefs are not something to
argue or fight over, it shall evolve."

Re: MKCOL fails, 403 error

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:32:39AM -0500, Alan Smith wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> I do have access to the log at /var/logs/apache2/error_log. What
> should I be looking for?

For whatever error message shows up at the time corresponding to when
the MKCOL request was done. You can grep MKCOL in the access_log to find
out. That might help you understand why the MKCOL fails.

Mike