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maxdeviant
maxdeviant

Reputation: 1179

Can't see a cloned GitHub repository in OS X localhost directory

I have my Apache server running under localhost on OS X, as per this guide.

I recently tried cloning the private repository for my website from my GitHub account to my ~/Sites/ folder, but it does not show up when I navigate to localhost/~USER/ in Chrome.

At first I thought it was a problem with Git in general, but I cloned a number of other repos, both public and private, and all of those show up fine.

If I create a new folder and copy the files into it, then that is viewable from localhost, but this breaks my repo. However, if I copy the files using cp -rp ./source-directory/. /new-directory/, the .git files are copied but the folder is still unviewable from localhost.

Anyone have any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 790

Answers (1)

maxdeviant
maxdeviant

Reputation: 1179

After a lot of fiddling, I discovered that the issue was due to the presence of a .htaccess file in the repo.

It appears the file in question was messing with the Apache localhost server, which was causing the folder to be inaccessible.

Upvotes: 3

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