Title: Can’t access Subversion
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Can’t access Subversion

 *  [jared-essig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jared-essig/)
 * (@jared-essig)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-subversion/)
 * Host’s command line:
 *     ```
       [towncar]$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/tags/2.3.3 .
       svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/tags/2.3.3'
       svn: PROPFIND of '/tags/2.3.3': 403 Forbidden
       ```
   
 *  ([http://svn.automattic.com](http://svn.automattic.com))
 * Also tried from local vista box using tortoiseSVN, with same results. also tried
   checking out from the trunk.
 * Must I get a subversion name/pwd from Matt et al. first? If so, that is not even
   mentioned in the documentation at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Subversion)
   …
   an oversight I’d be happy to correct if this turns out to be the case. Peace.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-subversion/#post-707307)
 * nope, no passwd needed. I use tortoise, just tried it, and its working fine for
   me.
 *  [Len](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenk/)
 * (@lenk)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-subversion/#post-707322)
 * I just connected via Tortoise as well and no problems here.
 * Holy crap, revision 7162. I’m way behind. Time to fire up Xampp.
 *  Thread Starter [jared-essig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jared-essig/)
 * (@jared-essig)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-subversion/#post-707348)
 * Got it. It looks like I was missing a trailing slash at the end of the path in
   the example I copied over, so that was the difference. Not sure why that matters
   though.
 * Thanks for the verification; saved me from running down a few blind alleys. ~
   Jared

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-subversion/#post-707348)
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