Could not create work tree dir example com Permission denied

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I have got a virtual private server with nginx Virtual Hosts setup  Server Blocks    I ve installed Git and got my ssh keys authenticated with GitHub   I have my website running in     var www example com public html    I tried to run   git clone git github com example example co uk git   to pull my files on GitHub to the  public html  directory but I get the error   fatal  could not create work tree dir  example com    Permission denied   I ve followed this tutorial including the same issue he has mentioned on the page  but it still won t work  http   machiine com 2013 pulling-a-git-repo-from-github-to-your-ubuntu-server   I m completely new to this  so your help would be much appreciated

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Tested On Ubuntu 20  sudo chown -R  USER  USER  var www

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Turns out the problem was in the permission  I fix it with the following command sudo chown -R  USER  var www  Please make sure with the  USER variable  I tested and worked on Ubuntu Distro

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I think you don t have your permissions set up correctly for  var www Change the ownership of the folder   sudo chown -R   yourusername    var www

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I was facing the same issue but it was not a permission issue    When you are doing git clone it will create try to create replica of the respository structure   When its trying to create the folder directory with same name and path in your local os process is not allowing to do so and hence the error  There was  background  java process running in Task-manager which was accessing the resource of the directory folder  and hence it was showing as permission denied for git operations  I have killed those process and that solved my problem  Cheers

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Most common reason for this error is that you don t have permission to create file in the current directory  Ensure you are in the right directory  try this on mac system to list the directory     ls  then cd right folder name

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Change ownership and permissions folder  sudo chown -R username www-data  var www  sudo chmod -R  rwx  var www

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You should logged in not as  root  user   Or assign permission to your  current user  to do this by using following command  sudo chown -R username www-data  var www  sudo chmod -R  rwx  var www

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Open your terminal  Run cd   Run sudo chown -R   whoami    whoami   var   Note  I tested it using ubuntu os

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use this for all user  sudo chown -R   whoami    whoami   var

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I was facing same issue then I read first few lines of this question and I realised that I was trying to run command at the root directory of my bash profile instead of CD my work project folder   I switched back to my work folder and able to clone the project successfully

[git] Could not create work tree dir 'example.com'.: Permission denied

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