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2010-10-05
10:49		• Closed ticket [a5fba652a6]: remote `fossil clone` failed plus 4 other changes ... (artifact: 1da603bce0 user: anonymous)
2008-12-13
09:05		• Ticket [a5fba652a6]: 2 changes ... (artifact: 86a16c77fa user: stephan)
2008-10-16
13:01		• New ticket [a5fba652a6]. ... (artifact: 703a989edf user: anonymous)

Ticket Hash:	a5fba652a688656245a9b69b9146394f17877655
Title:	remote `fossil clone` failed
Status:	Closed	Type:	Documentation
Severity:	Cosmetic	Priority:	Zero
Subsystem:		Resolution:	Not_A_Bug
Last Modified:	2010-10-05 10:49:24 15.50 years ago	Created:	2008-10-16 13:01:16 17.47 years ago
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Description:

Command `fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ myclone.fossil` failed with the message: "fossil: connection to server failed" Also I try to start thttpd-server and clone my local repo but fossil failed with the same error. thttpd log says: 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Oct/2008:17:00:29 +0400] "POST /home/user/work/misc/test/test.fossil/xfer HTTP/1.1" 403 0 "" "Fossil/[3d62a9fb39]"

stephan added on 2008-12-13 09:05:15:
HTTP code 403 is "forbidden", which makes it sound like you're trying to clone the fossil repository database file directly. When cloning over the net you need to give the URL of either a standalone RUNNING instance of the fossil web server OR a CGI script which runs the fossil app from an existing webserver (e.g. Apache). For example, here's a CGI script for one of my repos:

me@host [~/www.fossil/repos/pegc]# cat index.cgi #!/home/me/bin/fossil repository: /home/me/fossil/pegc.fsl

And the URL for that repo is:

http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/pegc/index.cgi

For that to work i had to add a .htaccess file to my top-most directory (so i can run .cgi files in any subdirs):

me@host [~/www.fossil]# cat .htaccess Options +ExecCGI +Indexes # doesn't work on my hoster :( AddHandler cgi-script .html DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.php index.html

anonymous added on 2010-10-05 10:49:24:
I fell into this trap too. Could we review the (otherwise excellent) docs to make sure they're clear on this matter?