can't clone git repos via http; info/refs not found

Question

I am trying to make a git repository available for read-only access over http.

I am doing it the old-style way because git-http-backend is not available o

Answer 1

I have had this issue when the remote is running on a git repository 1.7.X and the git client is 1.8.X ; I proved it by downgrading my client to 1.7.X - this fixed the issue. So make sure git is the same version on "client" and "server" sides. The command I was running was git clone .