403 Forbidden error using Subversion

Question

I recently upgraded to Subversion 1.5, and now I cannot commit my code to the repository. I get an error message: \"403 Forbidden in response to MKACTIVITY\". I know the upg

Answer 1

Another instance when this issue will rear its head is if you commit a file twice with the same name but with different capitalizations (e.g., foobar and FooBar). This is only possible, of course, on a windows system and may just be a special case of Todd's answer above. One of our developers accidentally did this and it similarly cost us many debugging hours.