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 had the same error trying to clone a gitlab project because I set a wrong path !
I took the SSH path instead of the HTTP path. (+ do not forget the .git)

git clone *HTTP_path.git*