Unable to connect to git remote repository

Question

After performing git push -u origin master, I got:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/xxxx/xxxx.git': Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8087: Connection refused 

Same error occurred, when I tried to clone other repositories, too.

The Port 8087 doesn't seem to be busy. What could go wrong?

Edit: when I do clone from git:// instead of https://, it works just fine.

Answer 1

This happens because a proxy is configured in git.

Since it's https proxy (and not http) git config http.proxy and git config --global http.proxy can't help.

1 : take a look at your git configuration

git config --global -l 

If you have nothing related to https proxy like https_proxy=... the problem is not here.

If you have something related to https proxy then remove it from the file ~/.gitconfig and try again

2 : if it still doesn't work, unset environment variables

Check your environment variables :

env|grep -i proxy   

You should have one or several lines with https_proxy=...

Unset one by one with : unset https_proxy (or HTTPS_PROXY depending of the name of the variable)

3 : check environment variables again

env|grep -i proxy

If it shows nothing you should be good.

Note : This solution can applies to http and https proxy problems. just the variables name changes from https to http