Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed
I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated. I've made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server. Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.
C:cygwinhomeXPheriorCodelunch_call>git push
Password:
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog
alis@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Also set it up with verbose mode. I'm still pretty baffled.
C:cygwinhomeXPheriorCodelunch_call>set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1
C:cygwinhomeXPheriorCodelunch_call>git push
Password:
* Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 207.97.227.239... * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head!
* Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: C:Program Files (x86)Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
* SSL connection using AES256-SHA
* Server certificate:
* subject: 2.5.4.15=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1.
3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L
=San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com
* start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT
* expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT
* subjectAltName: github.com matched
* issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Ass
urance EV CA-1
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
Pragma: no-cache
< HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
< Server: nginx/1.0.4
< Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:44:41 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-Length: 55
< WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub"
<
* Ignoring the response-body
* Expire cleared
* Connection #0 to host github.com left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'https://MichaelDrogalis@github.com/dereker
dmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack'
* Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host github.com
* Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
* 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head!
* Server auth using Basic with user 'MichaelDrogalis'
> GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
Pragma: no-cache
< HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
< Server: nginx/1.0.4
< Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:44:41 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-Length: 55
* Authentication problem. Ignoring this.
< WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GitHub"
* The requested URL returned error: 401
* Closing connection #0
* Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 207.97.227.239... * 0x23cb740 is at send pipe head!
* Connected to github.com (207.97.227.239) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: C:Program Files (x86)Git/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
* SSL re-using session ID
* SSL connection using AES256-SHA
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
* Server certificate:
* subject: 2.5.4.15=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1.
3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L
=San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com
* start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT
* expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT
* subjectAltName: github.com matched
* issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Ass
urance EV CA-1
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* Server auth using Basic with user 'MichaelDrogalis'
> GET /derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-Agent: git/1.7.4.3282.g844cb
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
Pragma: no-cache
* The requested URL returned error: 403
* Expire cleared
* Closing connection #0
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog
alis@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
These are the versions of git and curl that I have:
C:UsersXPherior>git --version
git version 1.7.4.msysgit.0
C:UsersXPherior>curl --version
curl 7.21.7 (amd64-pc-win32) libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3 pop3s rtsp
smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate Largefile NTLM SSL SSPI libz
I just got the same problem and just figured out what's cause.
Github seems only supports ssh way to read&write the repo, although https way also displayed 'Read&Write'.
So you need to change your repo config on your PC to ssh way:
.git/config file under your repo directory url= entry under section [remote "origin"] url=https://MichaelDrogalis@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git to url=ssh://git@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git . that is, change all the texts before @ symbol to ssh://git config file and quit. now you could use git push origin master to sync your repo on GitHub To definitely be able to login using https protocol, you should first set your authentication credential to the git Remote URI :
git remote set-url origin https://yourusername@github.com/user/repo.git
Then you'll be asked for a password when trying to git push .
In fact, this is on the http authentication format. You could set a password too:
https://youruser:password@github.com/user/repo.git
You should be aware that if you do this, your github password will be stored in plaintext in your .git directory, which is obviously undesirable.
One small addition to Sean's answer.
Instead of editing .git/config file manually, you can use git remote set-url command.
In your case it should be:
git remote set-url origin ssh://git@github.com/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git
I find it easier and cleaner, than messing around with dot-files.