I just set up an EC2 server and I am trying to push local files from my machine to the server with git.
On the server, I initialized a git repo inside of /home/ec2-user/:
mkdir project.git
cd project.git
git init --bare
On the client I use the following command:
git fetch origin master
Which results in the error:
Permission denied (publickey, gssapi-keyex, gssapi-with-mic).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
This is what my local repo's config file looks like: (url IP changed for question)
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = false
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
symlinks = false
ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
url = ec2-user@ec2-22-222-22-222.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:project.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
This command WORKS: (I am able to ssh in)
ssh ec2-user@ec2-22-222-22-222.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Because the command above works, I would think that my PEM key is not the issue, seeing how it allows me to ssh into the server.
Just in case, I would start testing with the full repository path:
git remote set-url origin ec2-user@ec2-22-222-22-222.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/home/ec2-user/project.git
That would ensure that Git is looking at the folder you are trying to reach.
The OP mentions in the chat using
ssh -i "ec2-ohio.pem" ec2-user@ec2-22-222-22-222.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
That means the private key used is not the default %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\id_rsa
For Git to use it, it needs to refer to said key through the URL, and %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config
First, in the config file, declare an ec2 entry (you can call it any name you want, I use one which reminds me of the remote server target)
Host ec2
Hostname ec2-22-222-22-222.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
User ec2-user
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ec2-ohio.pem
Then change the remote URL to use that entry (and its associated private key)
git remote set-url origin ec2:/home/ec2-user/project.git