I installed gitosis and redmine and am running it through apache/passenger on CentOS. The problem is I cannot access the repositories through redmine. The error being "The entry or revision was not found in the repository.
My repository is stored at
/home/zenna/repositories/myproject.git
The error (found in the apache logs) is "fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/zenna/repositories/myproject.git'"
It clearly is a repository as it all works fine with the WeBrick server. I think it's probably an issue with the apache/passenger permissions
So I tried chowning the myproject.git folder with apache:apache. That didn't work
I thought perhaps the directory's parents must also be accessible by the apache user, so I tried creating a symbolic link at /myproject.git to /home/zenna/repositories/myproject.git. That didn't work either
Someone in the forums suggested:
You run script/server w/a user that has a public cert in the gitosis repos, but the apache/passenger user doesn’t. Simple solution… create a cert for your passenger user. Add it to gitosis server and assign permissions in gitosis.conf. I gave my apache user read permissions on the entire direstory and all files / folders within.
However, I run apache user with sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start
Does this mean I would have to create a public key for root and add root to my gitosis.conf? What is the actual user trying to access the repository through redmine, root? apache? passenger?
Thanks