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

In my case the issue was that, Jenkins was going through a proxy. I had given below properties in catalina.properties file of Tomcat.

http.proxyHost=proxyserver
http.proxyPort=3128

In order to instruct it to avoid going through proxy I had to add http.nonProxyHosts property. Multiple hosts can be seperated by pipe (|)

http.nonProxyHosts=localhost|*.companydomain.com

SVN server was on the intranet. I didn't need to go through proxy.