Bitbucket Server: The requested URL returned error: 403

[Daniel Karoll]

I have installed a fresh copy of Bitbucket Server v5.13.0 on a local domain server, and I'm able to create projects and repositories through the web browser without issues. When I try to clone my empty repository using git CMD or BASH I get this error: 

Cloning into 'testrepo' ... 

fatal: unable to access 'http://172.16.1.163:7990/scm/tp/testrepo.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

I believe 403 should point to an access level issue, but i've created this repo with the administrator account, making sure it had full privileges to the repo and that the git config information was correct. 

I've also tried to clone in sourcetree using the 'clone in sourcetree' link with the same results. The odd part is in sourcetree under 'remote repositories' I can see 'testrepo' on the repository list, i just cant clone from it...

.I'm not using SSH

[Lumpenstein]

Figured out a solution ? Having the same problem atm :/

[Daniel Karoll]

After setting up SSH, everything worked properly:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/set-up-an-ssh-key-728138079.html

I found that in my organization some users can connect using http right out of the box and others need to use SSH. I'm not sure why this occurs but it seems to always work over SSH. 

[Lumpenstein]

Thanks for answering ! Figured out the problem on my side as well, the bank I'm currently working in hass some proxy servers that were blocking the connection (figured it out by adding verbose logging to the git commands), needed to set 'git config remotes.MYREMOTE.proxy "" ' to bypass the proxy. 

I think you had the same problem, since using ssh bypasses the proxy ass well.

More info in this SO:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16538372/git-proxy-bypass