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Re: 403 Forbidden

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:35 +0000

On 24 February 2010 14:16, rpryor625_at_gmail.com <rpryor625_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> My apologies Simon for being so thick headed on this subject.......yes
> I am convinced now that it is a server issue. Last evening I deleted
> my client as a user on the server and re-entered it and established
> permissions once more and I was at least able to check out files but
> still unable to commit. I will check with users in the server mailing
> list. Thanks for responding.

Check that you have the case correct in the URL. There is an issue
with the Subversion Apache modules which allows you to checkout but
not commit if you use incorrect case in (I think) the domain name part
of the URL. But check that on one of the subversion lists.

Simon

>
> On Feb 24, 3:33 am, Simon Large <simon.tortoise..._at_googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 24 February 2010 00:33, rpryor..._at_gmail.com <rpryor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Simon
>>
>> > I uninstalled tortoise on my laptop and then I deleted my working copy
>> > of the repository and reinstalled tortoise on my laptop in an attempt
>> > to remove any errors on my computer.
>>
>> > Yes I deleted my auth data and have re-entered it when prompted.
>>
>> > I have also excluded the repository from indexing as well. I
>> > understand that Visual svn server should handle the permissions but in
>> > another blog someone suggested making sure that read/write permissions
>> > were enabled on the root of the repository.
>>
>> Yes, but read-write permission for the server, not for your laptop.
>> The client computers should not have any direct access to the repo
>> directory at all.
>>
>> > We have had three out of five laptops working perfectly with tortoise
>> > and Visual svn... now we only have one. We really feel that this
>> > system can work for us if we can get past the possible "user" errors.
>> > That is the problem, I cannot pinpoint where the problem is and feel
>> > like I may have to totally rebuild our version control system. We do
>> > not have all of our data up yet and what we do have under version
>> > control is secure and intact.
>>
>> The error is generated by the server, not the client. It makes no
>> difference whether you use TortoiseSVN, AnhkSVN, Subclipse, the
>> command line client, etc. The error can only be sorted on the server
>> itself. You need to check that the server has the correct file system
>> permissions on the entire repository directory, and you need to check
>> that the user permissions (Apache users) are set correctly. This is
>> server territory so you need to ask questions either on the subversion
>> users mailing list or the VisualSVN mailing list.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 23, 6:14 pm, Simon Large <simon.tortoise..._at_googlemail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On 23 February 2010 23:41, rpryor..._at_gmail.com <rpryor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> > We have Tortoise svn running on several laptops accessing a repository
>> >> > on another computer (windows 7 pro as a network share) that is running
>> >> > Visual svn Server to manage access to the repository. I recently
>> >> > upgraded my laptop to windows 7 and setup tortoise on it. I was able
>> >> > to checkout, commit and update for several days then I began receiving
>> >> > the following error: "403 Forbidden"
>>
>> >> > Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to
>> >> > OPTIONS request for "https://fileserver/svn/GKData
>>
>> >> > Above is the exact wording of the error..the repository being GKData.
>>
>> >> First off, that is a server error message so the problem lies with the
>> >> server not the client. You need to ask on the subversion users mailing
>> >> list.
>>
>> >> > I have tried the following trouble shooting procedures:
>>
>> >> > - typed in the correct url to the server repositoryhttps://fileserver/svn/GKData
>> >> > - deleted my user name and profile from Visual svn server and re-
>> >> > entered it
>> >> > - deleted working copy on my laptop, uninstalled tortoise and
>> >> > reinstalled it
>> >> > - installed the latest version of Visual svn Server on the Network
>> >> > share that hosts the repository
>> >> > - gave my computer full control access on the repository folder
>>
>> >> You did what? So now you can accidentally delete the repository from
>> >> your network share? Nice. Never ever make a repository accessible to
>> >> anything except the repository server program (VisualSVN in this case)
>> >> if you value your data.
>>
>> >> > nothing is working.....anyone have any ideas what is going on? We have
>> >> > three other laptops that are functioning fine.
>>
>> >> Using the same authorization data on those laptops, or different?
>> >> Did you try deleting your auth data and re-entering it when prompted?
>> >> (Settings->Saved data->Delete auth cache)
>>
>> >> Simon
>>
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