unable to chdir or not a git archive

I'm trying to setup my first git server and I'm having problems cloning to my local machine.

On the server I have done the following

cd /var/www/html/
mkdir my-first-repo
cd my-first-repo
touch file1.txt
git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/www/html/my-first-repo/.git/

Then on my local machine if I enter the following

git clone root@myserver:my-first-repo/.git

I get the following error messages

fatal:开发者_JAVA百科 'my-first-repo/.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

root has ssh access so I was expecting it to work fine.

Any suggestions on how to fix this would be great?

Thanks

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Don't add .git i.e. do it like this:

git clone root@myserver:my-first-repo

EDIT: Wait... you created repo on HTTP server and try to access it via SSH. This is bad idea, but this should work then:

git clone root@myserver:/var/www/html/my-first-repo

The myserver:my-first-repo directs you to $HOME/my-first-repo.