Case
Upon completing the setup of the GCP instance, NGINX, and cloning the repository, I was unable to pull the repository and received the following error message:
[username@instance-1 landing-page]$ git pull
fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/var /www/landing-page'
To add an exception for this directory, call:
git config --global --add safe.directory /var /www/landing-page
Solution
I then realized that I had forgotten to add my user to the NGINX group and change the ownership of the directory, which have caused the issue.
To register a Linux user to the nginx group, follow these steps:
- Check the current groups that the user belongs to by running the following command:
groups username
- If the user does not belong to the nginx group, add the user to the group using the usermod command:
sudo usermod -a -G nginx username
- To verify that the user has been added to the nginx group, run the groups command again:
groups username
The output should show the user as a member of the nginx group.
To change the ownership of the directory, run the following command:
[username@instance-1 www]$ chown -R username:nginx landing-page/
Note: The above steps assume that the nginx group already exists on your system. If it does not, you can create the group using the following command:
sudo groupadd nginx
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