Gitorious clone over https and git

[Graziano Aliberti]

Hi everyone,

I've installed a local gitorious instance without problems except that I can't clone over https and over git.

When I write :

git clone git://gitorious.eng.it/example/example.git example

I receive

Cloning into 'example'...
fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got '
----------------------------------------------
Unable to access repository /example/example.git
----------------------------------------------'

When I write :

git clone https://git.gitorious.eng.it/example/example.git example

I receive

Cloning into 'example'...
error: The requested URL returned error: 404 while accessing https://git.gitorious.eng.it/example/example.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

Only via ssh I can...

Regards,

Graziano

[Marius M. Mathiesen]

Graziano Aliberti writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've installed a local gitorious instance without problems except that I
> can't clone over https and over git.
>
> When I write :
>
> git clone git://gitorious.eng.it/example/example.git example
>
> I receive
>
> Cloning into 'example'...
> fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got '
> ----------------------------------------------
> Unable to access repository /example/example.git
> ----------------------------------------------'

Graziano,
Looks like you need to set up either mod_xsendfile (Apache) or
X-Accel-Redirect (Nginx) to have your frontend web server deliver the
Git objects over HTTP for you.

There's some information about this on the wiki (this assumes you're
using Apache):

https://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/GitoriousComponents#HTTP+cloning++[2]

If you're using Nxinx, this paragraph on the getgitorious.com site:
http://getgitorious.com/documentation/gitorious-org-setup.html#sec-1-2-2[3]
explains how to set that up.

Cheers,
- Marius

[Graziano Aliberti]

Hi Marius,

I've already installed and enabled the mod_xsendfile on Apache (Ubuntu Server 12.04) and my gitorious-ssl file is this:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    <VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName gitorious.eng.it
        DocumentRoot /var/www/gitorious/public
        SSLEngine on
        XSendFile on
        XSendFilePath /var/www/gitorious/tarballs
        SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-gitorious.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-gitorious.key
        BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
    </VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Obviously on my local machine hosts file I have the mapping of
IP_GITORIOUS gitorious.eng.it git.gitorious.eng.it

Regards

[Graziano Aliberti]

...in fact the "Download tar.gz" works fine.