On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:37:19PM -0400, Andrew Watson wrote: > I'm trying to setup git with Smart HTTP so we can move off of SVN. > > I've used the blog post: https://git-scm.com/blog/2010/03/04/smart-http.html I'm not sure how that post will have aged. You might check your setup against the documentation in "git help http-backend", which is kept more up to date. > My system is CentOS 7 which reports git version 1.8.3.1 and Apache > 2.4.6. I also tried on Ubuntu 16.04 with git 2.7.4 and Apache 2.4.18. > > Using GIT_CURL_VERBOSE I can see it fail after a PROPFIND. That means the client isn't using smart-http. PROPFIND is part of the "dumb" http push-over-webdav. So the problem is likely in the very first request Git makes to /info/refs/?service=git-receive-pack. The response there is what the client uses to decide whether the server understands smart-http or not. > My stackoverflow post with all the debug info I could think of is > here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43643152/git-push-results-in-return-code-22 I notice the response for that first request has: Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 which implies to me that the git-http-backend CGI isn't being run. -Peff