During the installation of Discourse on a Hetzner server, denvergeeks encountered the error “No such file or directory” after running a git clone command. The issue stemmed from a malformed URL — likely due to a copy-paste error that introduced invisible characters or a typo like “https;//” instead of “https://” Moin and pfaffman suggested retyping the command manually, which resolved the problem for denvergeeks. Additionally, Canapin noted that Hetzner’s web-based console uses a German keyboard layout, which may cause input errors — advising against using it for complex commands unless necessary, such as changing the root password. The solution was to manually type the correct command: git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git /var/discourse.
While installing a new instance of Discourse on a freshly installed Hetzner server with the following specs:
As directed here…
…and following those instructions here…
…like so…
…I am getting the error:
fatal: repository ‘https’ does not exist
bash: //github.com/discourse/discourse-docker.git: No such file or directory
I would appreciate any help!
I can’t quite make sense if it. My best guess is that you somehow copied some invisible character between the colon and the //.
Maybe try typing the command. Or if you typed it, try copy and paste.
It looks like you typed https;//github…
This is a trap. Hetzner’s web console uses German 
keyboard layout 
Maybe your issues came from here.
I use it only to change the root’s default password when not using SSH.
