# Gitea post-recieve hook to push repo **URL:** \ **Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\ **Created:** [July 16, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431 "2018-07-16T16:34:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mxkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mxkle](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mxkle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/1 "2018-07-16T16:34:25Z")
Hi everyone, happy gitea user here 🙂 I want to push a repo from my gitea server to a diffrent remote git server (gitlab). So i created a post-recieve hook for the repository under repository -\> settings -\> git hooks -\> post-recieve ``` #!/bin/bash while read oldrev newrev ref do if [[$ref =~ .*/master$]]; then echo "master ref. push blog to gitlab.. " git push gitlab master else echo "not on master branch.. " fi done ``` Everytime i push code to my gitea server now, i get the following response: ``` remote: master ref. push blog to gitlab.. remote: fatal: 'gitlab' does not appear to be a git repository remote: fatal: Could not read from remote repository. remote: remote: Please make sure you have the correct access rights remote: and the repository exists. ``` I have created a ssh-keypair for the git user (the user running gitea) and placed it in ~/.ssh Also i’ve pasted the public key of the git user into my gitlab account under settings -\> SSH Keys. Using gitea version 0549762 with docker. Is there something iam missing? Is my post-recieve hook wrong? Any help appreciated! 🙂 Thanks in advance and have a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![anon74399538](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@anon74399538](https://forum.gitea.com/u/anon74399538)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/2 "2018-07-16T17:02:25Z")
Push mirroring was made a CE feature in GitLab [two months ago](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42099) so it should be possible. According to the error `gitlab` is not a valid remote. Have you reached out to GitLab for support? If they supported the kind of mirroring Gitea does you wouldn’t be having this problem. ---
**Author:** ![mxkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mxkle](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mxkle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/3 "2018-07-16T17:09:36Z")
Cant use the feature of gitlab because my gitea server is not reachable from the outside. Its just an local docker container. Ive also addded gitlab as a remote with: `git remote add git@gitlab.com:gitlab_user/repo.git` but i still get the error. I havent tried to contact the gitlab support, wanted to make sure i dont have any dumb problems on my side with gitea. Thanks for your reply balibebas 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anon74399538](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@anon74399538](https://forum.gitea.com/u/anon74399538)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/4 "2018-07-16T17:11:47Z")
Are you able to push up from a terminal inside your container manually? ---
**Author:** ![mxkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mxkle](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mxkle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/5 "2018-07-16T17:18:49Z")
Not exactly sure where i find the repo to try a manual push. But i just created a test-repo on gitlab, pulled it inside the container and pushed it after a minor change again to gitlab. I had to configure git user credentials git config --global user.name “John Doe” git config --global user.email [johndoe@example.com](mailto:johndoe@example.com) maybe i have to add this to the repo i want to push with the post-recieve hook? ---
**Author:** ![anon74399538](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@anon74399538](https://forum.gitea.com/u/anon74399538)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/6 "2018-07-16T17:22:40Z")
I’m not 100% sure as I haven’t tried this myself, but perhaps this will help: > According to Gitea docs [looks like](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/backup-and-restore/) git repos are stored in `custom/git`. Since your using Docker check your Gitea [volume](https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/) for the precise location. That should help get you out of the [black box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box) it sounds like your in so you can debug properly. ---
**Author:** ![mxkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mxkle](https://forum.gitea.com/u/mxkle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/7 "2018-07-16T17:44:09Z")
This helped me. Never saw that there are “deploy keys”, i think i have to use thoose instead of just general ssh keys i added before. I followed the instructions, now i get the following error: ``` remote: master ref. push blog to gitlab.. remote: Host key verification failed. remote: fatal: Could not read from remote repository. remote: remote: Please make sure you have the correct access rights remote: and the repository exists. ``` feels like iam getting closer… thanks alot balibebas! 🙂 iam going to test more around and test my google skills again … this project is getting way more complicated that i acutally wanted 😕 ---
**Author:** ![anon74399538](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@anon74399538](https://forum.gitea.com/u/anon74399538)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-post-recieve-hook-to-push-repo/431/8 "2018-07-16T18:07:26Z")
Glad to hear you’re making measured progress. If Google doesn’t deliver why not try DuckDuckGo after a small break and I bet you’ll get it. You’re teaching me things I wanted to know but wrote off before I started. Cheers.