git push origin master: permission denied (public key) error

Question

I have set up a git repo on my amazon ec2 ubuntu server instance. I have been trying to push the code onto the server\'s repo from my local machine. The steps that I followed ar

Answer 1

The complete procedure being:

1. Add the EC2 public key to your ssh list with the following command

   ssh-add /path/to/myEC2publickey
   

2. Create a git repository on the EC2 instance with the following commands

   mkdir /path/my_project.git
   cd /path/my_project.git
   git init --bare
   

3. Connect the local files on your system to your repository with the commands

   cd the_project 
   git init
   git add . 
   git commit -m "Initial git commit message" 
   git remote add origin username@hostname.com:the_project.git 
   git config --global remote.origin.receivepack "git receive-pack" 
   git push origin master
   

4. Create a public key as the user and add it to the server's authorized keys

   You can do this step by just copying the file id_rsa.pub from the localhost to the servers ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, as suggested in the previous answer.

After following these steps if you try the git push, you should not get a "permission denied" error.