TortoiseSVN trunk checkout "Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to OPTIONS" error

Question

My problem is that every time I do some operation with an URL like the following one: https://nttt.dttt.com:8443/svn/nttt/Med/trunk I get

Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to OPTIONS".

The user and password I supplied was correct, so no problem there.

I don't know where the problem lies, I don't know if it is the server(on witch I don't have any control) or my Tortoise client.

Solution 1

I don't think it is TroitoiseSVN. The problem most likely is that you don't have access to full tree or all HTTP operations. Try accessing these URLs in your browser:

https://nttt.dttt.com:8443/svn/nttt

https://nttt.dttt.com:8443/svn/nttt/Med

https://nttt.dttt.com:8443/svn/nttt/Med/trunk

And see if you get any 403 errors. Otherwise you will need to talk to your system administrator to fix the rights.

Solution 2

This error can happen if you checkout a SVN repository with a different account. The account data is stored to disk, and the next time you want to commit to a repository SVN may use the wrong account. It could help to specify the right account in the console or terminal:

svn commit -m "my message" --username my_username --password my_password

Solution 3

You just need to delete the saved data from your SVN. Go to this path All Programs --> TSVN --> settings -->Saved Data ---> Clear the Authentication Data. After doing this, you can access to your SVN path with the proper credentials.

Solution 4

according to this post it is a known bug http://groups.google.com/group/visualsvn/browse_thread/thread/e16fe2e3c5fdab8d?pli=1 Setting username and password manually may help

Solution 5

i was also debugging this issue. I have a control over the server. So just found out that the group "everyone", if present, was configured to "No Access" (which I did it) and it was conflicting with my admin rights so just removed it completely to resolve this forbidden user error.

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Comments

[S Bogdan]

In the browser I get the same error, and I don't have a Proxy...So are you saying that that the problem is my internet connection, or some kind of firewall issue?

[S Bogdan]

The URL is fine, and when I try it in the browser I get the same error

[S Bogdan]

I already looked at that discussion, but I don't know how to set the username and password manually

[Dave Markle]

It's most likely the configuration of your server.

[sanjuro]

something like this in command line: svn update --username asdf --password asdf, but i never tried it through command line

[Andrey Adamovich]

@S Bogdan, I agree to Dave, it's your server configuration.

[thomasb]

I just got the same error : I had simply forgotten to add my svn user to my svn "developpers" group (using VisualSVN Server)

[NguyenDat]

I have same problem like cosmo0, mistyping wrong group name. So please check access.conf file

[samairtimer]

I had similar issue , i was trying to checkout age old code from my svn base, just supplying username and password let me access the code. thanks a ton!!