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alborz
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Getting a 403 error when trying to push local project up to GitHub

Whenever I try to push up a local project up to my GitHub using git push origin master I get a 403 error.

git remote -v returns the correct remote repo URL, but pushing the project returns the following:

remote: Permission to username/random-quote-generator.git denied to username.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/username/random-quote-generator.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Thanks!

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
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Hi Alborz M.,

The username fragment of the URL needs to be changed to your GitHub username that you use to sign into your account on github.com, GitHub have a great tutorial on how to update your remote URL's with the git command.

https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-remote-s-url/

Hope that helps.

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Hi Chris Upjohn,

the username fragment actually has my GitHub username; I've just switched it for a placeholder for the purpose of asking the question on the forum.