Title: permissions? Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # permissions? * Resolved [Jon of the Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon-of-the-wood/) * (@jon-of-the-wood) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/) * Dear Revisr team, * Absolutely love your plugin. Been wanting something like this for many months. * It’s worked well for me until I tried it on a site I migrated to a new VPS. The site was already working with Revisr before migration. The new host installed git for me but there are a couple symptoms of what I am guessing is the same problem. Here are the symptoms: * 1. it is not recognizing the existing repo (I migrated the site with Revisr and repo and active Bitbucket connection from the previous server). 2. when I try to create a new repo, I get this message: “Failed to initialize a new repository. Please make sure that Git is installed on the server and that Revisr has write permissons to the WordPress install.” 3. when I try to push changes to the repo( which worked before moving to this server) I get “Error pushing to the remote repository. The remote repository could be ahead, or there may be an authentication issue. Click here for more details.” & when I click for more details it says:“ sh: git: command not found” * The new host was not exactly sure what next steps to take * Any ideas? Even if it’s guidance on what I should suggest the host to do? It’s fully managed hosting although they only provide ‘best effort’ support for things like git and WordPress. * Thanks so much. * Sincerely, Jon * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/revisr/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/revisr/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Expanded Fronts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/expandedfronts/) * (@expandedfronts) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245622) * Hi, * Thanks for the feedback! * It definitely sounds like a permissions issue to me, but it’s hard to know the exact issue without seeing it. * Who are the WordPress files owned by? Is that the same user as the user running Apache? * You may have some luck creating the repository manually ( with “git init .” ), and then using chown and/or chmod as needed to match it up with the same permissions/ user as the rest of your WordPress installation. * Thread Starter [Jon of the Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon-of-the-wood/) * (@jon-of-the-wood) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245784) * Thanks for your response. Shared it with the host and they did some checking on permissions and there did not seem to be any problems. * Today I noticed that the Revisr plugin is still making backups and pushing them to the BitBucket repo even though it still has the “No Git repository was detected, click here to create one.” * I can manually commit, but when I try to manually push I get “Error pushing to the remote repository. The remote repository could be ahead, or there may be an authentication issue. Click here for more details.” When I click for more it says: “sh: git: command not found” * What should we do next? * Thanks * Plugin Author [Expanded Fronts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/expandedfronts/) * (@expandedfronts) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245793) * Hi, can you please paste over the debug info from the help tab in the Revisr Settings? * The error details make it seem like Git isn’t installed on the server. Can you confirm that it’s definitely installed? * If so, it’s likely an issue with the installation path to Git not being recognized by Apache. * Thread Starter [Jon of the Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon-of-the-wood/) * (@jon-of-the-wood) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245801) * Worked for a couple hours with our server admin on this tonight. It seems to me that the Revisr is not detecting the git path. Here’s what we did: 1. We ran which git – output: /usr/local/bin/git – So git IS installed. 2. We added the line: define(‘REVISR_GIT_PATH’, ‘/usr/local/bin/git’); in wp-config.php – but that stil doesn’t help. 3. We rebooted the server to be sure. No joy. 4. What we ended up doing was to hardcode the path in line 77 of class-revisr-git. php: $this->git_path = ‘/usr/local/bin/git’; This seemed to work. Can you help us fix the problem properly rather than hardcoding the git path in the class file? * Below is the error file before we made the hardcode patch: Operating System Linux Exec() Enabled true Git Install Path Not Found Git Version Unknown MySQL Install Path /usr/bin/mysql Repository Status No repository detected. * Thanks much * Thread Starter [Jon of the Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon-of-the-wood/) * (@jon-of-the-wood) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245802) * p.s. I mistyped… that wasn’t the error file, but the debug info I believe you were asking for. * Here it is again after we made the hardcode change: Operating System Linux Exec() Enabled true Git Install Path Not Found Git Version git version 1.8.3.4 MySQL Install Path /usr/bin/mysql File Permissions false Repository Path /home/[website- name-removed-for-security]/public_html Repository Status Click here to view. * Plugin Author [Expanded Fronts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/expandedfronts/) * (@expandedfronts) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245803) * Hi, * That’s really strange, line 77 normally just returns the “REVISR_GIT_PATH” constant that you already tried defining and apparently didn’t work. * Can you please try adding the “define(‘REVISR_GIT_PATH’, ‘/usr/local/bin/git’);” code to the wp-config.php file above the line that starts with “Absolute path to the WordPress directory”. (Just below the the “WP_DEBUG” constant should work well). * I see that you tried adding this already, but the placement within the wp-config. php is important. * Thanks! * Thread Starter [Jon of the Wood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon-of-the-wood/) * (@jon-of-the-wood) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-52/#post-6245806) * Thanks, that seemed to do the trick! Must have just misplaced it in the wp-config. php file earlier. 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