Title: Accessing SVN
Last modified: August 6, 2017

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# Accessing SVN

 *  [Harmonic Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmonicdesign/)
 * (@harmonicdesign)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-accessing-svn-help/)
 * When first creating my plugin I was using Windows and Tortoise SVN to update 
   and push changes to the plugin SVN.
 * Now, however, I am running Ubuntu 16.04LTS and need to connect again to push 
   new updates.
 * The problem is that no matter how I try, I cannot gain access to commit.
 * Running
 * `svn ci -m "updated readme for recent WP versions" --username HarmonicDesign --
   password mySuperSecretWordPressForumPassword`
 * yields
 * > svn: E215004: Commit failed (details follow):
   >  svn: E215004: No more credentials
   > or we tried too many times. Authentication failed
 * or
 * > svn: E215004: Commit failed (details follow):
   >  svn: E175013: Access to ‘/!svn/
   > me’ forbidden Authentication failed
 * depending on which account I attempt to access it with.
 * Anyone have an idea on what’s going on? I’m hoping it’s something simple and 
   stupid such as trying to commit to the wrong repository or something. Perhaps
   the dev svn is a different path than [http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/plugin-name](http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/plugin-name).
 * Any help would be much appreciated!

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-accessing-svn-help/#post-9385714)
 * Make sure you are calling svn from your plugin root and that your plugin folder
   structure matches your repository. Sort of obvious, just making sure 😉
 * Go through the [Subversion section](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-to-use-subversion/)
   of the Plugin Handbook and be sure you’ve addressed all the details of using 
   Subversion.
 * How long has it been since you last updated? A lot of plugins that appeared to
   be inactive have been deactivated. You would have been sent email warnings, but
   that line of communication can often fail. If your account keeps having authentication
   issues, contact the plugin team at [plugins@wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-accessing-svn-help/plugins@wordpress.org?output_format=md)
   to verify your plugin’s current status.
 *  [Christian Sabo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelverbieger/)
 * (@pixelverbieger)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-accessing-svn-help/#post-9865467)
 * I had similar issues (using command line on OS X 10.11) and the solution was 
   as simple as surprising for me: my password contained the character ) and that
   breaks the command line commands

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## Tags

 * [plugin-development](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-development/)
 * [SVN](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/svn/)

 * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Christian Sabo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelverbieger/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-developer-accessing-svn-help/#post-9865467)
 * Status: not resolved

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