The saved location is not a git repository!

Is there any way you could check the web php user has access to the shell_exec function. You can usually do this by checking safe mode is off and the function is not in the disabled functions config when displaying phpinfo();.

When the function is disabled the plugin will just return empty strings for any of the commands executed which may be why your unable to view the branch.

Addiitonally thanks for the output in your submission, it does look like the .git folder has the correct permission for use by the web user. as a final sanity check it might be worth just making sure the files and directories inside the .git folder have the same user and permissions to allow access from the web php process.

To check if shell_exec is enabled I used this code

<?php

        if(function_exists('shell_exec')) {
            echo "exec is enabled\n";
        }

?>

and called it with php file.php on the command line. The result was that I got the message exec is enabled. I did it with the same user name as apache is running (i.e. www-data).

I also checked the correct ownership of the file under /var/www/html/wp-content/.git and there were files which had root as username and group. I changed it to www-data (including subdirectories) but the error message is still showing up.

root@beb35a1d43af:/var/www/html/wp-content/.git# ls -al
total 104
drwxr-xr-x   8 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 23:06 .
drwxrwxrwx   8 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:31 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 www-data www-data    14 Jan 19 22:12 COMMIT_EDITMSG
-rw-r--r--   1 www-data www-data    20 Jan 19 22:43 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x   2 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:10 branches
-rw-r--r--   1 www-data www-data    92 Jan 19 22:10 config
-rw-r--r--   1 www-data www-data    73 Jan 19 22:10 description
drwxr-xr-x   2 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:10 hooks
-rw-r--r--   1 www-data www-data 55115 Jan 19 23:06 index
drwxr-xr-x   2 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:10 info
drwxr-xr-x   3 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:12 logs
drwxr-xr-x 234 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:11 objects
drwxr-xr-x   4 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 19 22:10 refs

Hello again,

in your php script could you try this and see if there is any output, just like you did for the phpinfo test please:

<?php
echo shell_exec('git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD');

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