pre-receive hook declined: Can't access "Repository > Branches" to fix

Hi all,

When I try to push to an empty branch that I made in gitlab, I get the error

! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)

I have looked online, and found a few solutions, but none of them have worked for me yet. The most popular solution seems to be something akin to this (gitlab-recipes#27 (closed)). It requires that you turn off the "protection" status of the master branch. Only issue is that I do not seem to have the "Repository" option in the left hand option-pane, as seen in the image below.

I think that if I were to add a file, I may get the option; however, I can't add a file from the command line because I can't push to the branch, and there also does not appear to be an option to add to the file from the web-interface.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I may fix this so that I can push to my repo?

Thank you for your time!