post-receive /var/www/html denied

Question

My username (let’s call it my_name) belongs to the Apache group which is owner of var/www/html directory, sub-directories and files contained within.

In that directory I installed Wordpress. Directories and files permissions are set to 0775 (yeah, I know the files should have 644, but it is not a factor for now).

Well, my username has writing permissions indeed, because I am able to create new files or directories, as well as delete them, by using SSH terminal or WinSCP.

The problem comes up when I run a post-receive hook of a bare git repository, no matter if by running the script or by pushing changes from the local working repository.
In any scenario, the post-receive hook does not work because of permission denied. Really strange and I cannot understand why.

Could you help me please?

Edit: This is the output of ls -alrth ~/git/devsite.git/hooks directory:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache  896 Apr  2 22:41 commit-msg.sample
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache  727 Apr  7 09:09 post-receive
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache  189 Apr  2 22:41 post-update.sample
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache  398 Apr  2 22:41 pre-applypatch.sample
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache 1704 Apr  2 22:41 pre-commit.sample
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache 1239 Apr  2 22:41 prepare-commit-msg.sample
-rw-rw-r-- 1 name apache 1348 Apr  2 22:41 pre-push.sample
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache 4951 Apr  2 22:41 pre-rebase.sample
-rwxrwxr-x 1 name apache 3611 Apr  2 22:41 update.sample

This is the post-receive script:

#!/bin/sh
TARGET=/var/www/html/wp-content
GIT_DIR=/home/name/git/devsite.git

#run 'post-receive' hook
git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f

VonC · Answer 1 · 2018-04-07T21:41:01.817

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Try again after a

cd /path/tp/bare/repo
git config core.sharedRepository true

I mentioned it before in "Permissions with Git Post-Receive".

In the OP's instance, the post-receive script is not placed properly: it should be in ~/git/devsite.git/hooks, not ~/git/devsite.git.

edited Apr 07 '18 at 21:41

answered Apr 07 '18 at 14:08

VonC

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not working. `/var/www/html` has `apache:apache` as owner/group, the `post-receive` bash script has been run as `my_username` but it does not work. Incredible! – R99Photography Apr 07 '18 at 18:14
@R99Photography Can you edit your question with the output of `ls -alrth /path/to/post-receive/parent/folder`? – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 18:16
you have the details you had asked me. Night. – R99Photography Apr 07 '18 at 21:37
@R99Photography I have edited the answer accordingly. – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 21:41
Post-receive is already in hooks. I don’t know what is that., but not the script I am trying to run – R99Photography Apr 07 '18 at 21:42
@R99Photography So what does ls -alrth of the hooks folder look like? – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 21:46
here we are with the hooks – R99Photography Apr 07 '18 at 21:52
@R99Photography OK, looks good. "name" should be able to execute that script. Does it start with a `#!/bin/sh` shebang directive? – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 21:58
added the post-receive bash script – R99Photography Apr 07 '18 at 22:04
@R99Photography Can you, just for testing, replace the script content (after the first line) with `id -a` and `pwd`? Would that work or still generate a "permission denied"? – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 22:09
Sorry but did not understand you, what should I have to edit? – R99Photography Apr 07 '18 at 22:11
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/168471/discussion-between-vonc-and-r99photography). – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 22:13
@R99Photography Replace the script content with those two lines: simplify in order to understand where the permission denied is coming from. – VonC Apr 07 '18 at 22:17

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