# Gitea Smart HTTP

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-smart-http/8716>\
**Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\
**Created:** [March 6, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-smart-http/8716 "2024-03-06T23:03:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ncrmro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/ncrmro/32/4457_2.png) [@ncrmro](https://forum.gitea.com/u/ncrmro)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-smart-http/8716/1 "2024-03-06T23:03:28Z")

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Howdy I’m trying to use Obsidian Git Sync over HTTP and I get a Smart HTTP error. My Gitea instance is behing nginx.

> Smart HTTPError: Remote did not reply using “smart” HTTP protocol.

Disucssing on the Helm Chart (How I have deployed Gitea).

> **[Smart HTTP not working](https://gitea.com/gitea/helm-chart/issues/625)**
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> Howdy I'm trying to use Obsidian Git Sync over HTTP and I get a Smart HTTP error. I did a bit of reading and this seems to be a CGI scrip that gets executed but I'm using ingress-nginx. I guess I would need to put gitea behind apache? I know nginx...

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**Author:** ![lunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/lunny/32/4701_2.png) [@lunny](https://forum.gitea.com/u/lunny)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-smart-http/8716/2 "2024-03-07T04:09:19Z")

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Maybe you can try it on [https://try.gitea.io](https://try.gitea.io) or [https://gitea.com](https://gitea.com).