Host a Git-style repo

[jamiehewitt15]

When following the Git-style repo tutorial, I have successfully uploaded my repo to IFPS with ipfs add -r . However, when I try to download it with git clone I am getting the error message below.

Is anyone able to help me with this? I'm not sure what I have done wrong.

git clone http://localhost:8080/ipfs/QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq
Cloning into 'QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq'...
fatal: unable to access 'http://localhost:8080/ipfs/QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq/': Failed to connect to localhost port 8080: Connection refused

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[johnnymatthews]

Hmm, that's odd. Just to double check, can you make sure that you've got an IPFS daemon running? Either using Go-IPFS or IPFS Desktop.

This tutorial is fairly old (in IPFS terms), so it likely needs a revision. I'll run through today to make sure nothing's completely broken.

[johnnymatthews]

Never mind! It's because the URL structure changed. So instead of

git clone http://localhost:8080/ipfs/QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq

It should be

git clone http://QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq.ipfs.localhost:8080/

@jamiehewitt15 Give that a try. I'll change the tutorial :)

[jamiehewitt15]

Thank you for your help @johnnymatthews I really appreciate it. Although, unfortunately there is still an issue here.

If I run:
git clone http://QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq.ipfs.localhost:8080/

I get the following error message:
fatal: unable to access 'http://QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq.ipfs.localhost:8080/': Could not resolve host: QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq.ipfs.localhost

However, I have managed to get it working by running:
git clone http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/QmYgyahQoikJEbZEkiubwxm16xjCAZs2RUd1qfuus2Zyeq

I have got the daemon running. Could the issue be due to the fact that I'm running the commands on windows?

[johnnymatthews]

It's unlikely this is a Windows issue. Do you know which version of IPFS you're running? You can find out by running ipfs --version in a terminal:

$ ipfs --version

ipfs version 0.6.0

[jamiehewitt15]

I'm running ipfs version 0.6.0

I think the problem must be due to the redirect, as it worked fine when I requested from the IP address. I think it might be related to this issue: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/7527

[johnnymatthews]

Ah, I think you're right. I'm gonna leave this issue as closed for now then.