linux - Git unable to create file permission denied

Question

I am using Amazon EC2 to host a website which is deployed to the server via git. I used this tutorial previously on the same kind of EC2 Ubuntu Linux Server instance, and it has worked flawlessly. However, when I try and push to the server, I receive the following error trace:

Tutorial: http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

Trace:

$ git push origin master

Counting objects: 5, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 250 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: unable to create file index.html (Permission denied)
To ssh://[email protected]/var/www/website.git
   8068aac..04eae11  master -> master

I only have one file inside the repository at the moment, which is index.html.

The error trace is showing that the permission is being denied to create the file. Please can you tell me where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

I believe if you run

 sudo chown -R git:git /srv/git/ 

this is coming from How to fix permission denied for .git/ directory when performing git push?