Reputation: 7240
I have been provided the login details (username and password to connect through SSH) to a web server.
It contains a web application that I am supposed to submit some regular updates via git.
The server is access via its IP address and I can't connect to it via HTTP requests.
I ran the git init
command inside the root directory (public_html/app) of the web application.
I need to add it as a remote repository but I do not know how: I tried the following:
git remote add APP user@209.32.x.x:public_html/app/app.git
and then
git clone user@209.32.x.x:public_html/app/app.git
But I get
fatal: repository 'APP' does not exist
I am new to git.
first: What do I need to make the app
directory a git repo?
second: how to determine what the link of the repo is? (What to clone?)
Upvotes: 1
Views: 87
Reputation: 1327194
Try to use the absolute path for the folder:
user@209.32.x.x:/path/to/public_html/app
If you have done a git init
within public_html/app
, you don't need to add an "app.git".
But you do need to add git config receive.denycurrentbranch updateInstead
if you want to be able to push directly to a non-bare repo.
Another approach is to set up a bare repo (which would be more in line with your app.git
) folder, and push to it (no receive config needed in that case), with a post-receive hook which will then checkout the latest pushed commit to your site:
git --git-dir=/path/to/project_root/.git --work-tree=/path/to/public_html/app checkout -f
In both case, the question remains: do you have a git repo with the site content history?
Upvotes: 2