Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

Question

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.

Answer 1

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/

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

1. Click on your repository
2. On the right hand side, click on "Settings"
3. On the left hand side option panel, click on "Collaborators"
4. Add the person name you know in GitHub
5. Click "Add Collaborators"

After this our "Push to Git" worked fine.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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 "@".

Answer 6

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"