Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

Question

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:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call>git push

Password:

error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://MichaelDrog

[email protected]/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

Also, set it up with verbose mode. I'm still pretty baffled.

C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_call>set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

C:\cygwin\home\XPherior\Code\lunch_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://[email protected]/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

[email protected]/derekerdmann/lunch_call.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

These are the versions of git and curl that I have:

C:\Users\XPherior>git --version

git version 1.7.4.msysgit.0

C:\Users\XPherior>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

Answer 1

For this, you need to change your repo config on your PC to ssh way for that follow the instructions:

Edit .git/config file under your repo directory

Find url under section [remote "origin"]

change it from url=https://[email protected]/call.git to url=ssh://[email protected]/call.git. It means to change all the texts before ‘@’ symbol to ‘ssh://git’.

Save the config file and quit. 

Now you could use git push origin master to sync your repo on GitHub.

For better understanding about these commands go through the following crash course on git that will help you to understand git well

Comments

when I change the url with https to ssh it works. thank you.