Redmine git integration - issue in accessing git from redmine but not from external git client

Question

I have setup redmine integration with apache as described in the redmine documentation. I have a /git path accessible with auth and /git-private accessible only to redmine. When I clone the repository through /git path, I get the up-to-date repo. But when I try to view it in redmine repo viewer, I get a 404 "The entry or revision was not found in the repository." error. Trying to clone using the git-private url in the redmine box gives a bare repository though it is the same repo as the one cloned by the /git path. I have enabled RedmineGitSmartHttp in the /git path. What could be the issue here?

PerlLoadModule Apache::Redmine SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /path/to/git/root SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend/ <Location /git> AuthType Basic Require valid-user AuthName "Git" PerlAccessHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::access_handler PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=<dbname>;host=<db host>" RedmineDbUser "<user>" RedmineDbPass "<password" RedmineGitSmartHttp yes </Location> <Location /git-private> Order deny,allow Deny from all <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Allow from <redmine public ip> Allow from <redmine pvt ip> Allow from <localhost> </Limit> </Location> 

Answer 1

Redmine can't access a git repository via HTTP. It always needs direct file system access to the bare git repo for showing its content on the Repository tab. Thus your /git-private construct will not work at all (although something like this could be done with Subversion)

Consequently, in the repository settings of Redmine, you have to enter a filesystem path to the bare git repository, not a URL.