Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal HTTP request failed

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I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated  I ve made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server  Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64   C  cygwin home XPherior Code lunch call gt git push Password  error  The requested URL returned error  403 while accessing https   MichaelDrog alis github com derekerdmann lunch call git info refs  fatal  HTTP request failed   Also set it up with verbose mode  I m still pretty baffled   C  cygwin home XPherior Code lunch call gt set GIT CURL VERBOSE 1  C  cygwin home XPherior Code lunch call gt git push Password    Couldn t find host github com in the  netrc file  using defaults   About to connect   to github com port 443   0      Trying 207 97 227 239      0x23cb740 is at send pipe head    Connected to github com  207 97 227 239  port 443   0    successfully set certificate verify locations      CAfile  C  Program Files  x86  Git bin curl-ca-bundle crt   CApath  none   SSL connection using AES256-SHA   Server certificate           subject  2 5 4 15 Private Organization  1 3 6 1 4 1 311 60 2 1 3 US  1  3 6 1 4 1 311 60 2 1 2 California  serialNumber C3268102  C US  ST California  L  San Francisco  O GitHub  Inc   CN github com          start date  2011-05-27 00 00 00 GMT          expire date  2013-07-29 12 00 00 GMT          subjectAltName  github com matched          issuer  C US  O DigiCert Inc  OU www digicert com  CN DigiCert High Ass urance EV CA-1          SSL certificate verify ok   gt  GET  derekerdmann lunch call git info refs service git-receive-pack HTTP 1 1 User-Agent  git 1 7 4 3282 g844cb Host  github com Accept      Pragma  no-cache   lt  HTTP 1 1 401 Authorization Required  lt  Server  nginx 1 0 4  lt  Date  Thu  15 Sep 2011 22 44 41 GMT  lt  Content-Type  text plain  lt  Connection  keep-alive  lt  Content-Length  55  lt  WWW-Authenticate  Basic realm  GitHub   lt    Ignoring the response-body   Expire cleared   Connection  0 to host github com left intact   Issue another request to this URL   https   MichaelDrogalis github com dereker dmann lunch call git info refs service git-receive-pack    Couldn t find host github com in the  netrc file  using defaults   Re-using existing connection    0  with host github com   Connected to github com  207 97 227 239  port 443   0    0x23cb740 is at send pipe head    Server auth using Basic with user  MichaelDrogalis   gt  GET  derekerdmann lunch call git info refs service git-receive-pack HTTP 1 1 Authorization  Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX User-Agent  git 1 7 4 3282 g844cb Host  github com Accept      Pragma  no-cache   lt  HTTP 1 1 401 Authorization Required  lt  Server  nginx 1 0 4  lt  Date  Thu  15 Sep 2011 22 44 41 GMT  lt  Content-Type  text plain  lt  Connection  keep-alive  lt  Content-Length  55   Authentication problem  Ignoring this   lt  WWW-Authenticate  Basic realm  GitHub    The requested URL returned error  401   Closing connection  0   Couldn t find host github com in the  netrc file  using defaults   About to connect   to github com port 443   0      Trying 207 97 227 239      0x23cb740 is at send pipe head    Connected to github com  207 97 227 239  port 443   0    successfully set certificate verify locations      CAfile  C  Program Files  x86  Git bin curl-ca-bundle crt   CApath  none   SSL re-using session ID   SSL connection using AES256-SHA   old SSL session ID is stale  removing   Server certificate           subject  2 5 4 15 Private Organization  1 3 6 1 4 1 311 60 2 1 3 US  1  3 6 1 4 1 311 60 2 1 2 California  serialNumber C3268102  C US  ST California  L  San Francisco  O GitHub  Inc   CN github com          start date  2011-05-27 00 00 00 GMT          expire date  2013-07-29 12 00 00 GMT          subjectAltName  github com matched          issuer  C US  O DigiCert Inc  OU www digicert com  CN DigiCert High Ass urance EV CA-1          SSL certificate verify ok    Server auth using Basic with user  MichaelDrogalis   gt  GET  derekerdmann lunch call git info refs HTTP 1 1 Authorization  Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx User-Agent  git 1 7 4 3282 g844cb Host  github com Accept      Pragma  no-cache    The requested URL returned error  403   Expire cleared   Closing connection  0 error  The requested URL returned error  403 while accessing https   MichaelDrog alis github com derekerdmann lunch call git info refs  fatal  HTTP request failed   These are the versions of git and curl that I have   C  Users XPherior gt git --version git version 1 7 4 msysgit 0  C  Users XPherior gt curl --version curl 7 21 7  amd64-pc-win32  libcurl 7 21 7 OpenSSL 0 9 8r zlib 1 2 5 Protocols  dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp Features  AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate Largefile NTLM SSL SSPI libz

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make sure you have enough permissions to push to the repository if you do then try running these commands

git config --global user.email youremail@domain.
git config --global user.name username
git config --global user.password yourpassword

hope this helps someone

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what worked for me is changing from http to ssh   git remote rm origin git remote add origin git github com username repoName git   then check it with git remote -v

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For anyone curious  my mac machine vs lucid vm ran git 1 7 6 vs 1 7 0 4  and the exact same repo was pushable from my mac  newer git  but not the VM  Same curl version  Perhaps some older git versions don t support https pushes

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I had the same issue  My case was  I d initialized git repo locally before I created it on github  then I tried to add remote branch  I solved my issue by changing the order of actions  created a repo on github site  then inited it locally  But it s not the case fr them who like to do all from command line as me

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What worked for me was to reset the BitBucket password on the portal and then trying to push again

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Check if you are on the correct branch git status Check your repository permissions  write permission is needed

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I actually had a very simple fix to this  All i did was edit the git config file differently after cloning the repository   The remote origin url is what you need to edit in your default config file  It should look like seen below   core      repositoryformatversion   0     filemode   true     bare   false     logallrefupdates   true  remote  origin       fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin       url   https    username  github com  username   repository  git  branch  master       remote   origin     merge   refs heads master

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Edit  git config file under your repo directory  Find url  entry under section  remote  origin    Change it from url https   github com rootux ms-Dropdown git to https   USERNAME github com rootux ms-Dropdown git  where USERNAME is your github user name     This solution worked for me

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The other answers that suggest switching to SSH sort of miss the point  HTTPS is supported  but you must log in with you GITHUB password  not your SSH passphrase  which was what was giving me the same exact error     I was having the same problem  but making sure to use my actual GitHub password at the terminal password prompt fixed the solution with no alteration to the config  or resorting to SSH   The reason it is important to note this  is many public institutions  such as my school  will block SSH  but allow HTTPS  which is the only reason I started cloning over HTTPS in the first place    Hope that helps anyone else having the same issue

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Try to create your origin using SSH key instead of HTTP    If you can initiate using SSH key then URL starts with   git github com  lt YOUR REPO URL gt    Now you can add  commit  amp  Push to your corresponding Branch

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I was signed in as a different github user previously say user1    For my actual github account say user2  I was able to clone a newly created repo in github but I was not able to push the changes   I tried all the answers mentioned above including removing credential from Windows Credential manager but nothing worked    In the end what worked was launching github Windows App  Navigate to Settings- Options and voila the logged in user was user1  Click Logout from that user and login as required user in this case user2

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Below is the solution  For Windows you can find the keys here   control panel   user accounts   credential manager   Windows credentials   Generic credentials  Next  remove the Github keys   In mac  1-In Finder  search for the Keychain Access app   2In Keychain Access  search for github com   3-Find the  internet password  entry for github com   4-Edit or delete the entry accordingly

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I had the same issue with this same error telling me this      remote  Permission to user repo git denied to user2    The problem with this is that on Windows and Mac  it s stored in cache a key path to Github   To fix this on Mac just do this  git credential-osxkeychain erase   Nothing will prompt at the console   Then just do a normal push and it should let you write your username and password again from Github   git commit -m  First Commit    For window uses see answers above   with stored credentials

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On more reason could be e-mail verification on github com  Just log in to github com and check if there is no message for you  to confirm your e-mail address  Confirm  if necessary

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One small addition to Sean s answer   Instead of editing  git config file manually  you can use git remote set-url command   In your case it should be   git remote set-url origin ssh   git github com derekerdmann lunch call git   I find it easier and cleaner  than messing around with dot-files    help github com  Changing a remote s URL

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If none of the solutions worked for you  quickly read this answer  might be your case    For those of you like me who went through all of these  great  answers but still have trouble pushing your commits  there is potentially one other reason for failure of a push    Check your git repository  wherever it is  GitHub  BitBucket       to see if everything is OK  In my case  after spending a lot of time figuring out what my problem is  even blaming PyCharm s new edition       I realized that I did some stupid things and my BitBucket repo exceeded the 2GB limit and automatically turned to a read-only repo and that was why I could not push any new commit  And  that exactly causes you getting the same error  403  unable to access the URL

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Same error and resolution on Mac OS X   Everything was working fine till I created a new account on GitHub and tried to push    git push -u origin master   And got the error   remote  Permission to NEWUSER NEWREPO git denied to OLDUSER  fatal  unable to access    https   github com NEWUSER NEWREPO git    The requested URL returned error  403  It should have fixed by setting the user name either for global or current repo    git config    -global user name NEWUSER   git config user name NEWUSER   But it didn   t    I got it fixed by deleting the OLDUSER associated with GitHub from Keychain Access app under Passwords section  Then the push command went successful     git push -u origin master   reference

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It could be an accounting issue  The Github account of the upstream  private  repo owner may not be financial  I ve seen this where the client s credit card expired

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If you are using BitBucket your account can be put into read only mode for the following reasons         We are upgrading our storage segments and cannot accept new data    We are rolling out changes that require no new writes    The owner of the repository needs to upgrade their account to accept    a higher number of users       https   confluence atlassian com display BITBUCKET Repositories in Read-Only Mode

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I think  deepwaters got the answer correct for older versions  The HTTPS URL needs to have the username  I had git 1 7 0 4 and git push origin master wouldn t even ask for a password till I added it

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Sometimes there is nothing wrong with settings  and there are some problems on github servers   https   status github com - current status of github

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I don t know whether someone has mentioned this before or not   I was having this problem with Bitbucket  and I noticed one thing  If you have this  for example    git push https   myrepo myRepoPassword bitbucket org myrepo myrepo git --all   Notice the   in there  right after the password  See  if your password ends with a    you d have two    instead of one  In my case  it was the password that was causing the issue

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To resolve such 403 during push error you have to go in  git directory config file and change the given line   precomposeunicode   true  remote  origin   http   git github com abc xyz git   Change the line to this   precomposeunicode   true  remote  origin   ssh   git github com abc xyz git   This resolved my issue

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Provide write access for the user   After providing the access Pull the code once and then push it

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After changing https to http within gitbox app  it worked for me

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For those having permission denied 403 error while using ssh according to Xiao  or http urls try these commands    gt git config --global --unset-all credential helper   gt git config --unset-all credential helper   with administrator rights    gt git config --system --unset-all credential helper

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I figured out my own variation of this problem   The issue was not changing the protocol from https to ssl  but instead  setting the Github global username and email   I was trying to push to a  private repository   git config --global user email  your github email  email com   git config --global user name  Your full name

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I tried every answer but without success  The following solution helped me  If you don t have write access on the repository or getting a fatal 403 error  you can solve this easily by forking the cloned project  creating a new branch and pushing that branch to your repository  You will be able to make a pull request on the cloned project and let the person that has the write permission to do the merge

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This 403 Error  Access denied  can occur when you haven t accepted the invite link in your email or github repo account   After you click invitation link  you can add remote repo with following commands   git remote add  lt name gt   lt url gt  git push    set-upstream  lt repo name gt  master   Example   git remote add ProgrammingFoundationExam https   github com itprowhoami ProgrammingFoundationExam git git push --set-upstream ProgrammingFoundationExam master

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Figured it out  I cloned over HTTPS  Setting up my public SSH keys  cloning over SSH  and pushing over SSH fixed it

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None of the above answers worked for my enterprise GitHub account  Follow these steps for pushing via ssh key generation way    Create a repo by visiting your git account   Generate ssh key   ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  your email example com    Copy the contents of the file    ssh id rsa pub to your SSH keys in your GitHub account settings  Test SSH key   ssh -T git github com clone the repo  git clone git   github com username your-repository   Now cd to your git clone folder and do   git remote set-url origin git github com username your-repository git   Now try editing a file  try the README  and then do   git add -A git commit -am  my update msg  git push -u origin master   Update  new git version seems to recommend not to have any file while new repo is created  Hence make aa blank repo

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I had this problem because I had proxy I couldn t access to my repository  C  Users YourUser  gitconfig   remove bullshit proxy and it should work    then try again to clone by gitbash   git clone http

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What worked for me   My repo was a fork and still linked to the the parents repo   git remote -v   Will tell you if it is your repo or not   git remote set-url origin https   github com USERNAME OTHERREPOSITORY git   Allows you to reconfigure it to your repo and then allow you to push

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Make git repository from private to public

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Got the same kind of error  Unable to access 403  In My Case  None of these answers worked  So i tried the below  It worked    Remove user email and user password from git config Remove the saved credentials from Keychain  Restart the system  Now push the code  will ask you the user pass Proceed by giving user pass     Code pushed successfully    macOS

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I had the same problem with bitbucket but I waited 5 min and then I retried and it was working well  Sometimes it could be a problem with the provider

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I faced the same error and the cause was stupid - I did not have privileges to commit to selected repository  I did not know that I have to    fork selected project first clone repository locally  commit my changes locally push changes to my github clone request pull request to upstream   as described in https   help github com categories 63 articles

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If All else fails  Just make sure you didn t Archive your project  That was my problem  puts the whole solution in a read only mode

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Cloning with ssh instead of https solved this issue for me

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If you are using windows  sometimes this may happen because Windows stores credentials for outer repo  in our case github  in its own storage  And credentials that saved there can be different from those you need right now      So to avoid this problem  just find github in this storage and delete saved credentials  After this  while pushing git will request your credentials and will allow you to push

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Upgrade your git  GitHub has answered this question at https   help github com articles error-the-requested-url-returned-error-403

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This happened to me because my coworker accidentially disabled the repository that this repository was forked from  Just might check to ensure that the original git hub  repo actually still exists

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The only thing that helped me is this answer for another question   Git  39 s famous  quot ERROR  Permission to  git denied to user quot   In summary  if you are like me with Windows  search  Credential manager  and open it  There  you can find your Git credential  Change the username  which you must have changed to something else    You can also find it under  Control Panel  -  User Account  -  Credential Manager

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Add the user name as part of the URL and This error happens because the git command is hitting http instead of https  So set the url  git remote set-url origin https    lt username gt  github com Path to repo git   After which you will be prompted for password

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To definitely be able to login using https protocol  you should first set your authentication credential to the git Remote URI   git remote set-url origin https   yourusername github com user repo git   Then you ll be asked for a password when trying to git push   In fact  this is on the http authentication format  You could set a password too   https   youruser password github com user repo git   You should be aware that if you do this  your github password will be stored in plaintext in your  git directory  which is obviously undesirable

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This works for me -   git remote set-url origin https   username github com user repo git   Hope it helps

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Click on your repository On the right hand side  click on  Settings   On the left hand side option panel  click on  Collaborators  Add the person name you know in GitHub Click  Add Collaborators    After this our  Push to Git  worked fine

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I am having same issue  None of the above works for me  The problem is Github has block my write permission  I have changed my password  Now I am able to push

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I just got the same problem and just figured out what s cause  Github seems only supports ssh way to read amp write the repo  although https way also displayed  Read amp Write   So you need to change your repo config on your PC to ssh way   edit  git config file under your repo directory find url entry under section  remote  quot origin quot   change it from url https   MichaelDrogalis github com derekerdmann lunch call git to    url git github com derekerdmann lunch call git  that is  change all the texts before   symbol to ssh   git Save config file and quit  now you could use git push origin master to sync your repo on GitHub

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Just add you username into url like this   https   islam9 github com islam9 bootstrap-rtl  please check  http   islamkhalil wordpress com 2012 12 06 github-error-pushing-to-git-returning-error-code-403-fatal

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Try below command using administrator permission  This command solved my issue  Hope it will resolve your problem   git config --system --unset-all credential helper

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I had this problem right now  and it turned out that my server  etc resolver conf file had a bad ip address   Might help others

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Github has page dedicated to troubleshooting this error   https   help github com articles https-cloning-errors  In my case it turned out that using a new version of git  1 8 5 2  solved this problem

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In my case  I was getting the above error for my email id with github was not verified yet  GitHub was giving this warning of un-verified email   Verifying the email  and then pushing worked for me

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Edit  git config file under your repo directory  Find url  entry under section  remote  origin    Change it from url https   github com rootux ms-Dropdown git to  https   USERNAME github com rootux ms-Dropdown git  where USERNAME is your github user name

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Do this for a temporary fix  git push -u https   username password github com username repo name git master

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Anyone who didn t solve their problem with these solutions follow this thread   quot This happens when two git accounts are being used on same machine quot  https   stackoverflow com a 52046047 7861886 it has Windows solution and also i have added Mac solution for Mac users in comments

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A 403 code is  Forbidden    The server saw your request and refused it   Do you have permission to push to that repository

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In my case  the error was caused because I have no permissions in the repository

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change it from  url https   MichaelDrogalis github com derekerdmann lunch call git    to  url ssh   git github com derekerdmann lunch call git   It works    Do not forget the  git  before the

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This has happened to me because the repository was disabled  a repository can be disabled by the owner or Github may disable all private repositories of an account if the account does not pay it s bill    So you should contact the repository owner and inform him that the repository is disabled

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One another possible reason is  you might have exceeded their plan limit   To fix this issue and restore write access to the repo  either your account plan will need to be upgraded  or some of your collaborators will need to be removed

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