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Apr 14, 2017

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Level 26

Error deploying Spark application via Forge to Linode server

When I try to deploy Spark application via Forge to Linode server i receive this message "We were unable to install a project on your server".And the error Output show

Installing laravel/spark (v3.0.3): Downloading (connecting...)Downloading (failed) Failed to download laravel/spark from dist: The "https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/spark/zipball/90624c5e41e2f620f935b8ddf7752d1214be610b" file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found) Now trying to download from source
- Installing laravel/spark (v3.0.3): Cloning 90624c5e41

[RuntimeException] Failed to execute git clone --no-checkout '[email protected]:laravel/spark.git' '/home/forge/default/vendor/laravel/spark' && cd '/home/forge/default/vendor/laravel/spark' && git remote add composer '[email protected]:laravel/spark.git' && git fetch composer

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Best Answer

Level 26

Here Taylor's response may also help others :

I would suggest installing Spark directly into your app (not using Composer) via the Spark CLI or download and “path” repository approach. That way you don’t get permission errors on GitHub when trying to clone it on another server.

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