'receive-pack': service not enabled for './.git'

Question

(Solved already, I\'m writing this for the next guy)

I was running git daemon on one computer and tried synchronizing with another.

On computer A, I ran:

Answer 1

I encountered this error, but the solution seems different for those using git-http-backend. (git push/pull/clone over http instead of ssh or git)

This must be done on the remote server, and is best done on creation. (last line can be run independently if repo already exists / is in use)

$ mkdir eddies  # MAKE folder for repo
$ chown -R eddie:websrv eddies/  #ensure apache (webserver) can access it
$ cd eddies/
$ git --bare init --shared
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /var/git/eddies/
$ ls
branches  config  description  HEAD  hooks  info  objects  refs
$ git config --file config http.receivepack true