Why I can't add new repositories using gitosis?

Question

I set up gitosis but even when i can clone, pull and push to the gitosis-admin repo, i can't create new ones.

According to every doc i read, to create a new repo one has to:

• Give user write access to the repo (inside a group put: writable = repo-name)
• The user create a repo locally add a remote then does a push
• The repo is created in the server

But i always get the error fatal: 'repo-name.git' does not appear to be a git repository

But if a login on the server (as user git) and create the repo manually using mkdir repo-name.git && cd repo-name.git && git --bare init, then i can push from my local repo to the remote one.

What I'm missing?

Answer 1

UPDATE:
In your gitosis-admin repo, try adding loglevel = DEBUG under [gitosis] in your gitosis.conf. Push this change to your server and then try again. This will generate a lot of useful information to help debug the problem.

These instructions from Dreamhost are the best I found.

Are you pushing the gitosis-admin repo after updating permissions?