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I can check out from the svn server, but i can't commit changes. Error messages are shown as follows:

Access to '/svn/repo/!svn/me' forbidden

Screenshot of the error

To solve this problem, i have searched the internet while there's no userful solution found.

Here is something about my svn server deployed on apache:

  • OS: windows 7 32bits;
  • server: Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) SVN/1.7.8 PHP/5.4.3 mod_wsgi/3.5-BRANCH Python/2.7.3 DAV/2.
alroc
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I had this issue quite recently and found two things:

  1. You've run out of space on the drive the repo is on. SVN fails with an access forbidden message then.
  2. There's a permissions problem preventing access, you need to chmod through it.
Nicholas Smith
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  • chmod? it's definitely authz (path-based authorization) issue. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html – bahrep Apr 03 '13 at 12:14
  • Well it depends entirely on whether he could check in to the branch prior to the problem. I had the same issue and it turned out to be permissions. – Nicholas Smith Apr 03 '13 at 12:30
  • @Nicholas Smith Thanks for your answer, but: 1.I have enough space. 2.This seems to be the most possible reason, but i have no idea how to manage folder permission on windows...The service list on windows task manager shows that Httpd.exe belongs to `SYSTEM` and `SYSTEM` has full permissions to the Repo folder. But this error still exists... – xinlinqi Apr 03 '13 at 15:10
  • @bahrep Thanks for your answer. I did not use the authz part, config is as follows:`
    Dav svn SVNParentPath "e:/svn/" AuthType Basic AuthName "My SVN" SVNListParentPath on AuthUserFile "e:/svn/passwd" #AuthzSVNAccessFile "e:/svn/authz" Require valid-user `     – xinlinqi Apr 03 '13 at 15:19
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I just had the same Problem, and the solution was in the Pathname and Case. I checked some Projects out, and on the checkout I type a single Letter of the path with the wrong case:

Something like this: - http://svn.enterprise.org/svn/Repo/trunk/... (while I should have typed "repo", and not "Repo").

I could then make a "svn up" or "svn co" w/o problems. But when commiting (back to "Repo") the apache module, which check if I have write permission only knows the path "repo", and thus the error message.

My solution was to delete everything and checking out again with the right case in the SVN-URL. (svn switch could also works, the the Typo is far to the right)

Asturio
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  • There is another thread on this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5937159/svn-erroraccess-to-svn-myservice-svn-act-d99e498e-9a8d-374c-a3e4-fde21198bfa – Asturio Jun 19 '13 at 12:58
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Please check that you set the read/write permissions in the user access file, e.g.

user1 = rw
user2 = rw

etc. for every user in the authz file, e.g.

/etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

when using

AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.authz

in

/etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf
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I fix this issue due to user access permission.

I work with 2 more software developers and have this issue long time due to access to repositories with AD user configuration. When every 3 months change password the past password are cache in Visual SVN Manager. Then get this error of !svn/me

We change SVN Manager to don't use AD system and then we don't have more problems.

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