Issue IIS Rewrite Rules affecting Git repositories

[TullariS]

Server operating system version

Windows Server 2022

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.68

Hi,
I have been having issues accessing Git repos hosted on Plesk (clone, push, pull, etc.). After much digging I realised that the Laravel Toolkit extension IIS rewrite rules were affecting the plesk-git application on IIS - rules are inherited from parent application.

It is an easy fix - on the plesk-git web.config file, add <clear /> inside the <rules> element, before the plesk-git <rule>:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear/>
                <rule name="plesk-git" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(^[^/]*)[^\?]*" />
                    <serverVariables>
                        <set name="PATH_INFO" value="/{R:0}" />
                    </serverVariables>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="/plesk-git/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

I have done it on my end and it solves it. Unfortunately this will be reverted on following updates.

Can I ask you include this change in the extension please?

Thank you.

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hello, @TullariS . Thank you for the input. Could you please provide us with more details on what issues you have experienced and step-by-steps introductions on how we can replicate those? Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

 

[TullariS]

Hi,

Whenever I tried to do a push or a clone of a Plesk-hosted Git repo, I would get HTTP 403 errors.

Checking IIS Rewrite rules for the plesk-git Application within the domain we see:


You can see 4 inherited rules from the Domain - 2 from Plesk itself and 2 from the Laravel Toolkit extension. These are applied before the last one, which is the rule that really matters.

As, in my view, the rules set for the domain should not be used for plesk-git, which is its own application, so I added the <clear /> to the plesk-git web.config file. Rules on IIS are now:


Cloning the repo now works.

I suppose if you want to replicate it:

1. Create a domain with a Laravel application and make sure the Laravel Toolkit extension is enabled and recognises the domain
2. (optionally, I believe) enable non-www and HTTPS redirects
3. Create a local Git repo on the site
4. Attempt to push some code to it

Hope this helps.