403 forbidden when Commiting

[dhanushka ranasinghe <pa...@gmail.com>]

Hi..

I have a folder called   "a.b.c.d.svn.client"   but whe i commiting this
folder to my svn it get  403 Forbidden ERROR , but when i rename it to
"a.b.c.d.repo.client " commit works perfectly.

is there any reason for that


Thank You
Parakrama

RE: 403 forbidden when Commiting

["Cooke, Mark" <ma...@siemens.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhanushka ranasinghe [mailto:parakrama1282@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 05 March 2012 16:29
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: 403 forbidden when Commiting
> 
> Hi.. 
> 
> I have a folder called   "a.b.c.d.svn.client"   but whe i 
> commiting this folder to my svn it get  403 Forbidden ERROR , 
> but when i rename it to  "a.b.c.d.repo.client " commit works 
> perfectly.
> 
> is there any reason for that
> 
> 
> Thank You
> Parakrama

As a first guess, do you have any pre-commit hooks that parse paths?

As a second guess, do you have any apache rules that forbid access to any path containing `.svn` (often used to prevent browsing of the svn "pristene" directories)?

Actually, thinking about it I would check the second first!

~ mark c