Working fine locally but not committing when on public server

[ericpedia]

I have the plugin working brilliantly on my local machine. However, when I make a change on the live site, no commit occurs.

My config:

    'thathoff' => [
        'git-content' => [
            'commit' => true,
            'push'=> true,
        ],
    ],

My steps

1. Edit a page in the panel and click Save.
2. Run git status and/or git log via ssh from content folder. Expected: Change has been committed, working directory is clean. Actual: Changes are visible but have not been staged or uncommitted.

What I know about the server setup

• git 2.17.1 is installed
• composer install has been run, and all plugin files and vendor packages are there
• git status accurately reflects site changes
• content repo is on master branch
• git commands work fine if done directly via command line
• remote origin is Github. SSH keys have been properly set up so that I am able to push to and pull from the server to Github without issues
• Error logs don't show anything, and no error messages appear when saving

Other notes

• Local environment works fine, uses PHP 8.1.3
• My content folder is in the normal place
• I have my content repo set up as a submodule (all git commands work as expected inside of it and point to the right remote)

Kirby Status

Debugging: on PHP: 7.4.25 Server: Apache

Any thoughts?

[ericpedia]

I have also confirmed that PHP has access to git. I created test.php inside the content folder and tested shell_exec('git add -A');. It successfully ran the git command and staged all unstaged files.

[thathoff]

The plugin acts as the webserver’s user. So this user needs to be able to make git commit, git push and pull actions.

Have you tried to enable the displayErrors option? In this case you might get some information about errors happening when committing.

[ericpedia]

Yeah, my config has displayErrors and debug both set to true, but no errors appear in the Kirby interface, browser console, or server error log, as far as I can tell.

I also confirmed that the webserver user on my Kirby site can successfully use git, by adding various operations like exec('git add -A') to my Kirby templates, which worked (confirmed by checking content repo status directly via SSH afterwards). Do you have any ideas of how to troubleshoot it?

[thathoff]

displayErrors is an option for this plugin. I’m not talking about the php.ini option.

You said your config looks like this:

'thathoff' => [
    'git-content' => [
        'commit' => true,
        'push'=> true,
    ],
],

try to change it to

'thathoff' => [
    'git-content' => [
        'commit' => true,
        'push'=> true,
        'displayErrors' => true,
    ],
],

[thathoff]

Closing this issue because it has not been updated for a longer time. Considering it as resolved. Otherwise feel free to re-open.