Setting up a git repo on my GoDaddy hosting plan

Answer 1

With a little work, I was able to get Git running on my GoDaddy account. There's a longer posting detailing the process on my blog, but the short answer is:

1. install git in your account (perhaps using the tarball referenced in my blog post)
2. create a git repository (bare or not) in your account

3. check out your repository, using -u to indicate the path to git-upload-pack

   % git clone -u libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack mysite:myrepo.git

4. tweak your local repository config to point to the correct paths to git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack:

   % git config remote.origin.receivepack libexec/git-core/git-receive-pack
   % git config remote.origin.uploadpack libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack

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Since the blog is no longer accessible, here is the full post pulled from archive.org:

Using Git on GoDaddy

This blog is hosted on a cheap GoDaddy account. When shell access over SSH was recently made available, I thought it would be fun to install local git repositories. It wasn’t trivial, but I did finally get it working. Here’s how I did it:

Step 0. Configure SSH

You want to create a public key so you can SSH in to your GoDaddy account painlessly. Create a key pair if you don’t already have one, and add it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. I’ll assume an entry in ~/.ssh/config something like this:

Host mysite
HostName mygodaddysite.com
User mylogin

Step 1. Install Git

After poking around on my GoDaddy host, I discovered it was running CentOS 5.2. Binaries running on my laptop weren’t compatible, so I used VirtualBox to set up a local Centos 5.2 install and build Git. I’m sharing a tarball containing the pre-built CentOS 5.2 Git binaries. You should be able to download and install with the commands:

wget http://johntrammell.com/centos5.2-git.tar.gz
tar xzf centos5.2-git.tar.gz

Enjoy this part–I’ve saved you a couple hours’ work here.

Step 2. Set up your environment.

Add the following to your .bash_profile:

export EDITOR=vim
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/libexec/git-core
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib
export GIT_EXEC_PATH=~/libexec/git-core
export GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=~/share/git-core/templates

This will set your environment up correctly on an interactive shell. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get the PATH to set correctly for non-interactive SSH commands. For example, when I run this command from my laptop:

ssh mysite env

I see the default PATH. This is also the case when I set the path in .bashrc. I haven’t tracked down exactly what SSH does on non-interactive access, but this may be related to the PermitUserEnvironment setting in sshd. Luckily we can work around this.

Step 3. Creating a repository

Log in to your GoDaddy account, and create a simple “bare” Git repository:

% mkdir myrepo
% cd myrepo
% touch README
% git init
% git add README
% git commit -m 'empty git repository'
% cd ..
% git clone --bare myrepo myrepo.git

You now have a bare repository in ~/myrepo.git/ in the root of your GoDaddy account.

Step 4. Checking out your repository

The only tricky part to this is that you have to tell git where to find git-upload-pack. This works around the PATH problem mentioned above. On your local machine, do this:

git clone -u libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack mysite:myrepo.git

You should now have a copy of the original minimal repository checked out.

Step 5. More git configuration tweaks

Sadly we are not done:

% cd myrepo
% echo "foo" > README
% git commit -am 'updated'
[master 044c086] updated
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
% git push
bash: git-receive-pack: command not found
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Our PATH problems are interfering with the push operation now. As a workaround, we can either specify –receive-pack on the command line, or set it in the local configuration (the same applies for fetch operations and –upload-pack):

% git config remote.origin.receivepack libexec/git-core/git-receive-pack
% git config remote.origin.uploadpack libexec/git-core/git-upload-pack

Congratulations, you should be up and running now!

Resources

• http://johntrammell.com/centos5.2-git.tar.gz
• https://serverfault.com/questions/26836/setting-up-a-git-repo-on-my-godaddy-hosting-plan
• Setting up a git repo on my GoDaddy hosting plan
• git-upload-pack: command not found, how to fix this correctly
• http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?20304-Bluehost-Solution-to-the-Git-PATH-issue-when-using-a-non-interactive-shell
• http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+setup
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-upload-pack.html
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-receive-pack.html

Answer 2

I maitain git locally and use scp to push live... it's not elegant, but godaddy has scp installed my default.

"scp -r fooDirectory user@host.com:/path/to/document/root/"

that will move a local directory "fooDirectory" to "/path/to/document/root/fooDirectory" on the remote host.

when you are logged into go daddy use "pwd

Answer 3

Connect via ssh.

Install git to ~/git.

After that create/update these files:

~/.ssh/authorized_keys

command="~/connect.sh" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC...

~/connect.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ -f "${HOME}/.env_profile" ]; then
        source ~/.env_profile
fi;

if [ "x${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND}x" == "xx" ]; then
        $SHELL --login
else
        eval "${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND}"
fi;

~/.env_profile

export ENV_VARIABLE=value

by git:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/git/libexec/git-core
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/git/lib
export GIT_EXEC_PATH=~/git/libexec/git-core
export GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=~/git/share/git-core/templates

I spent about a week to google this out, but it's working like charm now... I don't think there is another solution by godaddy accounts, the possibilities are too limited by them...

Answer 4

I found another useful guide to install git on GoDaddy at http://www.612softwarefoundry.com/getting-git-on-godaddy/

Answer 5

The instructions in this blog post worked for me, except that I had to visit EPEL and find the newest version of the git RPM: http://hire.chrisjlee.net/node/139

Fetch the binaries

cd ~
mkdir git
cd git
# Download the rpm from EPEL ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL )
# Find the latest version by checking http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/git-1.8.2.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
# Extract binaries from the rpm
rpm2cpio git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm  | cpio -imdv
rm git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm

Configure

echo "
export GIT_BIN=${HOME}/git
export PATH=${GIT_BIN}/usr/bin:${PATH}
export GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_BIN}/usr/bin
export GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=${GIT_BIN}/usr/share/git-core/templates
export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true" >> ~/.bashrc

Configure git

mkdir ~/.git
git config --local --add remote.origin.uploadpack ~/git/usr/bin/git-upload-pack
git config --local --add remote.origin.receivepack ~/git/usr/bin/git-receive-pack

Answer 6

I was successful following the directions here:

http://www.krizka.net/2010/12/30/setting-up-a-public-git-repository-with-godaddy-shared-hosting/

The keys (for me) were

• Getting the precompiled binary for CentOS (from a link in post above)
• Setting the "uploadpack" and "receivepack". This is step 1 in the section "Letting local git know about remote git" near the end of the post.