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I have been using tortoise svn for a long time on this pc but it has suddenly stopped working.

I was performing svn checkout via tortoise and it returns the error:

Unable to connect to a repository at URL: <url>
Access to <path-to-repo> forbidden

Additionally:

  • In tortoise SVN there is no authentication cached. I looked at Settings / saved data. Tortoise should have prompted for login but it does not.
  • I can execute the exact same svn checkout from another machine and it works fine so it is not a permissions problem. I even copy/pasted the exact URL so the URL is exactly the same.
  • I am able to checkout other svn server repos fine on the same pc with the same tortoisesvn client. I get a proper prompt from svn for login as required.
  • I can use a browser on the same pc to open the svn url fine. The browser prompts for a login as required.
  • I have already tried uninstalling/re-installing tortoisesvn and that has not fixed the problem.
  • svn server version: 1.5.3
  • httpd version: 2.2.10 running SSPIAuth module
  • tortoisesvn client version: 1.9.3
  • client OS: windows 2007 64-bit
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  • Are you matching the case of the URL exactly? Windows is case-insensitive, SVN's path-based authorization is case-sensitive, and Apache is *mostly* case-sensitive but when it comes to host filesystem paths, it does whatever the host OS/filesystem does. – alroc Jul 24 '17 at 13:17
  • Sorry. No joy. Tried a shorter path which I know to be exactly matched. It does not work. The error is the same--access denied. The longer path does work both in the browser and from a redhat client. I am also defined as admin in AuthzSVNAccessFile – paolov Jul 25 '17 at 00:40

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