Git push hangs when pushing to Github?

Question

Git push hangs everytime I try to push to github. I am using Cygwin and Windows 7. Git functions fine locally tracking branches, providing status, setting global user.name a

Answer 1

I just wanted to say that I'm having this issue on my AWS EC2 instances. I was trying to push from my EC2 instance itself, when I have it configured to only allow traffic in from the load balancer. I changed the rule to allow HTTP in from everywhere, but it still didn't fix the problem. Then I realized it's because my security groups are configured to not allow outbound traffic from my EC2 instances over HTTPS. I didn't have allow HTTPS inbound traffic to make it work, even though it's probably a good policy for you to have HTTPS available inbound.