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Cannot deploy from private github repo

Posted on August 7, 2025

I forked digitalocean/sample-aspnet repo as public. Did some modifications just to see that app was from my repo and not the original one. Deployment worked perfectly. However, when I switched forked repo to private deployment stopped working. If I try to create the new app I get “Account does not have access to the repo” message with no details. It is single user github account, no organizations, access to DO app is granted. What am I missing?



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Hi there,

I think that this can happen if, when you first connected App Platform to GitHub, you only granted limited permissions. You can re-run the GitHub auth process here: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps/github/install

If you have multiple orgs linked to your GitHub account, make sure you pick the org that contains your private repo.

On the Repository Access screen, either select “All Repositories” or specifically choose the repo you made private so App Platform can access it.

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