Access to '/SVN/[repo name]/!svn/me' forbidden [duplicate]

Question

I am having some issue with some SVN users where they get the following message

Access to '/SVN/[repo name]/!svn/me' forbidden

I am having some issues figuring out the root cause of it.

The current setup is using Visual SVN on windows. We are using SVN security for the users, not AD. The users are that are having some issue are vendors(but not all of them), so they do have different permissions then an average user. But the weird thing is, I shadowed the user using Live meeting. They try to commit and get the message above. I clear their credentials from Tortoise SVN and use mine and everything is fine. The user is logged into the server as themselves and using my user info for SVN. But their is no link between the SVN users and windows users. Also the user was initially able to commit new files. I looked through SVN and I dont see anything wrong. Any ideas? Anyway to get more information about what is wrong.

Answer 1

Sorry, bahrep was correct that the url had an issue since it was case-sensitive. I am confused why when I cleared the credentials and put in my how the url was corrected.

I was able to correct the URL in TortoiseSVN, by:

1. right-clicking on the Repository location
2. Selecting TortoiseSVN --> Relocate
3. Correct the url and Click Relocate

Answer 2

H20rider

Please make sure the SVN url is correct. SVN is case sensitive. If you defined you root folder as ServicesTrunk then your svn access url needs to be of the same case.

you get the following error if you use

host:port/svn/ServicesTrunk ------- this will work

**case not right**
host:port/svn/servicesTrunk -------- will throw !svn/me' forbidden
host:port/svn/Servicestrunk --------- will throw !svn/me' forbidden