How to clone git repo using private key

Question

I have read a few questions and answers on here regarding using ssh to clone a git repo, but none have worked for my scenario.

My setup includes a server with a private git repo that I can pull from locally by running git pull . I have a git config file on my local machine that tells it where to pull from. It's been set up like this for a long time.

I now need to pull from that same repo from a different server. I have the same exact .git/config on the new server as I do my local.

When I run git pull on the new server, I want it to grab files from the current prod git repo just like my local machine does, but it gives me the error:

ssh: connect to host mysite.com port 22: Connection refused fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I would greatly appreciate any help in fixing this.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

the following error

ssh: connect to host mysite.com port 22: Connection refused

indicates that the ssh-server on the host mysite.com is not reachable on port 22.

here's a number of ideas why:

• there is no ssh-server running at all
• there is an ssh-server running but a firewall is blocking access
• there is an ssh-server running but it is listening on a non-standard port
• you have accidentally mistyped the server-name (or the server-name is resolved to the wrong IP)