I've implemented a PHP wrapper for git http backend which works well. I've done this to give me advanced control of who has access to repositories on my server. You can see the implementation on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36998492/channel-git-on-the-server-calls-through-php/37242591#37242591. I can pull from the server okay and all works well. However, I cannot push. When I read my trace code to see where it fails, I see that the last request is a PROPFIND request. The URL for this request does not have any of the usual 'info/refs' etc. that one usually gets on git calls. During reading of the documentation and reviewing how git-http-backend should be implemented, I can see that it should not be making a WebDAV request. I have also come across posts where people implementing http-backend the 'normal' way have also had this problem, e.g. http://serverfault.com/questions/390864/git-push-over-http-using-git-http-backend-and-apache-is-not-working So the question is, why is WebDAV being used on push? Trace code from the push: [2016-05-25 09:49:35] ========================== [2016-05-25 09:49:35] REQUEST: { "q": "p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/info\/refs", "service": "git-receive-pack" } [2016-05-25 09:49:35] SERVER: { "REDIRECT_STATUS": "200", "HTTP_HOST": "...", "HTTP_USER_AGENT": "git\/2.7.4", "HTTP_ACCEPT": "*\/*", "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING": "gzip", "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE": "en-GB, en;q=0.9, *;q=0.8", "HTTP_PRAGMA": "no-cache", "PATH": "...", "SERVER_SIGNATURE": "<address>Apache\/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at ... Port 80<\/address>\n", "SERVER_SOFTWARE": "Apache\/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)", "SERVER_NAME": "...", "SERVER_ADDR": "...", "SERVER_PORT": "80", "REMOTE_ADDR": "...", "DOCUMENT_ROOT": "...", "REQUEST_SCHEME": "http", "CONTEXT_PREFIX": "", "CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT": "...", "SERVER_ADMIN": "...", "SCRIPT_FILENAME": "...", "REMOTE_PORT": "49630", "REDIRECT_URL": "\/p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/info\/refs", "REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING": "q=p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/info\/refs&service=git-receive-pack", "GATEWAY_INTERFACE": "CGI\/1.1", "SERVER_PROTOCOL": "HTTP\/1.1", "REQUEST_METHOD": "GET", "QUERY_STRING": "q=p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/info\/refs&service=git-receive-pack", "REQUEST_URI": "\/p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/info\/refs?service=git-receive-pack", "SCRIPT_NAME": "\/index.php", "PHP_SELF": "\/index.php", "REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT": 1464162575.091, "REQUEST_TIME": 1464162575 } [2016-05-25 09:49:35] Path: /core.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack [2016-05-25 09:49:35] Cleaned, result only: [2016-05-25 09:49:35] f4648182f5f8eee082c37a83a0072cfc4210e5c5 refs/heads/master 8c4efcd77809bc9b94a59cf94653add8007c6b7d refs/heads/zztest [2016-05-25 09:49:35] ========================== [2016-05-25 09:49:35] REQUEST: { "q": "p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/HEAD" } [2016-05-25 09:49:35] SERVER: { "REDIRECT_STATUS": "200", "HTTP_HOST": "...", "HTTP_USER_AGENT": "git\/2.7.4", "HTTP_ACCEPT": "*\/*", "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING": "gzip", "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE": "en-GB, en;q=0.9, *;q=0.8", "HTTP_PRAGMA": "no-cache", "PATH": "...", "SERVER_SIGNATURE": "<address>Apache\/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at ... Port 80<\/address>\n", "SERVER_SOFTWARE": "Apache\/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)", "SERVER_NAME": "...", "SERVER_ADDR": "...", "SERVER_PORT": "80", "REMOTE_ADDR": "...", "DOCUMENT_ROOT": "...", "REQUEST_SCHEME": "http", "CONTEXT_PREFIX": "", "CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT": "...", "SERVER_ADMIN": "...", "SCRIPT_FILENAME": "...", "REMOTE_PORT": "49630", "REDIRECT_URL": "\/p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/HEAD", "REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING": "q=p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/HEAD", "GATEWAY_INTERFACE": "CGI\/1.1", "SERVER_PROTOCOL": "HTTP\/1.1", "REQUEST_METHOD": "GET", "QUERY_STRING": "q=p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/HEAD", "REQUEST_URI": "\/p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/HEAD", "SCRIPT_NAME": "\/index.php", "PHP_SELF": "\/index.php", "REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT": 1464162575.266, "REQUEST_TIME": 1464162575 } [2016-05-25 09:49:35] Path: /core.git/HEAD [2016-05-25 09:49:35] Cleaned, result only: [2016-05-25 09:49:35] ref: refs/heads/master [2016-05-25 09:49:35] ========================== [2016-05-25 09:49:35] REQUEST: { "q": "p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/" } [2016-05-25 09:49:35] SERVER: { "REDIRECT_STATUS": "200", "HTTP_HOST": "...", "HTTP_USER_AGENT": "git\/2.7.4", "HTTP_ACCEPT": "*\/*", "HTTP_DEPTH": "0", "CONTENT_TYPE": "text\/xml", "CONTENT_LENGTH": "167", "HTTP_EXPECT": "100-continue", "PATH": "...", "SERVER_SIGNATURE": "<address>Apache\/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at ... Port 80<\/address>\n", "SERVER_SOFTWARE": "Apache\/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)", "SERVER_NAME": "...", "SERVER_ADDR": "...", "SERVER_PORT": "80", "REMOTE_ADDR": "...", "DOCUMENT_ROOT": "...", "REQUEST_SCHEME": "http", "CONTEXT_PREFIX": "", "CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT": "...", "SERVER_ADMIN": "...", "SCRIPT_FILENAME": "...", "REMOTE_PORT": "49632", "REDIRECT_URL": "\/p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/", "REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING": "q=p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/", "GATEWAY_INTERFACE": "CGI\/1.1", "SERVER_PROTOCOL": "HTTP\/1.1", "REQUEST_METHOD": "PROPFIND", "QUERY_STRING": "q=p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/", "REQUEST_URI": "\/p\/git-backend\/run\/1\/", "SCRIPT_NAME": "\/index.php", "PHP_SELF": "\/index.php", "REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT": 1464162575.711, "REQUEST_TIME": 1464162575 } [2016-05-25 09:49:35] Path: /core.git/ [2016-05-25 09:49:35] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:prop xmlns:R="http://.../p/git-backend/run/1/";> <D:supportedlock/> </D:prop> </D:propfind> [2016-05-25 09:49:35] Exception: Request not supported: '/path/to/git/repo.git/' When run using curl verbose, the output is * Couldn't find host xxx in the .netrc file; using defaults * Trying xxx... * Connected to xxx (xxx) port 80 (#0) > GET /p/git-backend/run/1/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1 Host: xxx User-Agent: git/2.7.4 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Language: en-GB, en;q=0.9, *;q=0.8 Pragma: no-cache < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:00:25 GMT < Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) < Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=yyy; path=/ < Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT < Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate < Pragma: no-cache < Vary: Accept-Encoding < Content-Encoding: gzip < Content-Length: 109 < Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 < * Connection #0 to host madhan.ga left intact * Couldn't find host xxx in the .netrc file; using defaults * Found bundle for host xxx: 0x9bade0 [can pipeline] * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host xxx * Connected to xxx (xxx) port 80 (#0) > GET /p/git-backend/run/1/HEAD HTTP/1.1 Host: xxx User-Agent: git/2.7.4 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Language: en-GB, en;q=0.9, *;q=0.8 Pragma: no-cache < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:00:25 GMT < Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) < Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=zzz; path=/ < Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT < Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate < Pragma: no-cache < Content-Length: 23 < Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 < * Connection #0 to host xxx left intact * Couldn't find host xxx in the .netrc file; using defaults * Trying xxx... * Connected to xxx (xxx) port 80 (#0) > PROPFIND /p/git-backend/run/1/ HTTP/1.1 Host: xxx User-Agent: git/2.7.4 Accept: */* Depth: 0 Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 167 Expect: 100-continue < HTTP/1.1 100 Continue * We are completely uploaded and fine * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body < HTTP/1.0 100 Continue < Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:00:25 GMT < Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) < Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=aaa; path=/ < Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT < Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate < Pragma: no-cache < Content-Length: 0 < Connection: close < Content-Type: text/json; charset=utf-8 * Empty reply from server * Closing connection 0 error: Cannot access URL http://xxx/p/git-backend/run/1/, return code 52 fatal: git-http-push failed error: failed to push some refs to 'http://xxx/p/git-backend/run/1' -- Yours, Luke Madhanga -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html