git error: couldn't connect to host while accessing

Question

Am getting the following error while trying to pull/push or create new-clone

error: couldn't connect to host while accessing https://github.com/user/pack.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed

when i googled, people suggested to setup http_proxy.. but i don't understand it or i don't know to setup it.. am totally stuck up with it..

i don't know how to overcome these issues..

any help would be appreciated..

NB: note that i was able to use git before couple of days.. in the last couple of days it has been screwed up.. please help..

Answer 1

I have experienced the same error when wanted to push code on github. The problem was that I had messed up some environment variables on my Ubuntu machine. This happened because I wanted to use a manual proxy on google chrome.

If you are using linux use the following command to see if http_proxy and https_proxy are set to some ip address.

env | grep http_proxy

Then use the following commands to unset the value of these two variables.

unset http_proxy
unset https_proxy

Try to use git again. If it does not work then do a reboot. It worked for me.

Answer 2

git config --global --unset http.proxy 
git config --global --unset https.proxy

works for me

Answer 3

I got same error when try to pull using different linux user.

ls -lah
whoami

Make sure current user is same as owner of that folder.

Answer 4

I was getting a similar error in Visual Studio 2013:

An error occurred. Detailed message: An error was raised by libgit2. Category = Net (Error).
An error occurred while sending the request.

Then I tried using Git GUI:

Pushing to https://leniel@bitbucket.org/myrepo/bhp.git
error: Couldn't resolve host 'bitbucket.org' while accessing https://leniel@bitbucket.org/myrepo/bhp.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed

Guess what... my Parallels Virtual Machine had no internet connection at the moment. After reestablishing the internet connection I could push my commit. :) Can't believe that happened. We're so used to have an internet connection always on.

Answer 5

I gave the follwoing command to restart my network services. This would work for sure:

service network restart

Answer 6

My extremely simple solution was to first clone the empty new repo. I then deleted the .git folder in my project and moved all my project files & folders into the new repo folder. I then changed directories into that folder and then ran the add, commit, and push commands. Everything worked well.

Before trying this solution, I had not cloned the git repo first. My project folder and the repo had the same name, I had run git init, add, commit, and set the upstream, but push was giving me an error (failure to connect to host).

Answer 7

I've faced the same error when I changed the network that my laptop was connected. Editing /etc/resolv.conf properly solved the problem:

nameserver 8.8.8.8

Making resolv.conf blank and reboot might solve it too.

On debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 + VirtualBox 4.2.12.

Answer 8

This happened to me on my Vagrant VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu 12.04. The vagrant instance had been up for several days. I restarted the VM (vagrant reload), ssh'd back in, and it worked.

What's the cause? Not sure. Someone else can speculate. However, I always like to reboot three times just to be sure ;)

Answer 9

One solution, if this is a repository under you control, would be to use an SSH key for your repository access instead of HTTP. Update your remote accordingly by dropping the origin remote with:

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin <ssh_path_from_github>

You can find the ssh path in github here:

Make sure to preface it with ssh:// when you re-add the remote. If this doesn't work then we'll look at the http proxy settings, but based on your faux github link, I'm hoping it's a repository under your control.