Fail to push changes to git repository via http proxied by Nginx

Question

I am new to setting up an Git repository via http with Nginx (not Apache) I found this guide, it seemed a very simple solution.

I was able to create a repository and use git clone commands, however when i try to push changes to remote repository, I got following message from client

#git push origin master
XML error: not well-formed (invalid token)
error: no DAV locking support on http://192.168.80.128/git/it-knowledge.git/
fatal: git-http-push failed

Could anyone help me to figure out what mistakes I made ? About DAV locking support, I searched and see some threads about DAV locking file with Apache, is there any equivalent configuration on NginX in order to push changes successfully ?

Below are my nginx configuration file for the git path, my nginx was already installed with --with-http_dav_module option

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  192.168.80.128;
    client_body_temp_path /tmp/client_temp;
    location ~ /git(/.*) {
        dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
        create_full_put_path  on;
        dav_access  user:rw group:rw all:rw;
        autoindex  on;
        client_max_body_size  10G;
        fastcgi_pass  localhost:9000;
        include       fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME     /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend;
        fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL "";
        fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT    /srv/git;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO           $1;
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '17 at 14:10

That guide refers to a 2010 article.
A similar configuration is in this gist

location ~ /git(/.*) {
    # Set chunks to unlimited, as the body's can be huge
    client_max_body_size            0;

    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME     /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend;
    include     fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param   GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL "";
    fastcgi_param   GIT_PROJECT_ROOT    /git;
    fastcgi_param   PATH_INFO       $1;

    # Forward REMOTE_USER as we want to know when we are authenticated
    fastcgi_param   REMOTE_USER     $remote_user;
    fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
}

Make sure your repos are in ~, and that /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend does exists (with a recent enough Git version)

Fail to push changes to git repository via http proxied by Nginx

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