svn: MKACTIVITY 403 Forbidden

Question

Hi folks,

I´m getting this error while trying to commit to a svn repository:

svn: MKACTIVITY of '/svn/Demo/!svn/act/e2e65cfa-...4165f': 403 Forbidden (http://svn....com:8088)

Any idee why? I googled a lot but cannot find a solution for me...

Answer 1

Check if you supplied the correct credentials or you have enought rights to reach that repo (usually looking at authz files, if you can manage the server config). As one commenter said above is a permission problem.

Answer 2

This can also happen if the user places a space at the end of their username. Our setup is svn via http in apache. If a user places whitespace at the end if their username, it will get trimmed and apache will pass the auth though. However svn will fail to find the username and you will get this rather cryptic error.

It can also happen due to an odd url case problem. Windows does not make a difference in filesystem case, but svn does (even when running on windows). See some info on this here.

Answer 3

Double check casing in repository path.

Answer 4

I do not know if this answer helps you, but in my case it had something to do with server domain names and case sensitivity.

The URL we used for this working copy was

https://bhm18a.serona.org:8443/svn/nebeam/eco/branches/apple2010

instead of the correct URL

https://bhm18a:8443/svn/NeBeam/eco/branches/apple2010

Misteriously the wrong URL worked for "check out" and "update" and browsing the respository but not for "copy" or "commit".

Checking out a new working copy using the exact URL made the problems disappear.

(Using subversion 1.6.12 with Visual SVN Server)

Answer 5

Thank you Stiefel!

We have the same error and the url passed was containing some uppercase letters.

By relocating the working copy with the good URL, the error disappeared.

Many thanks for your solution.