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Gerard
Gerard

Reputation: 4848

Getting a 403 response when trying to run 'pod setup'

So I've started a new Xcode project and want to add cocoapods to it. I've successfully installed the gem but when I run

pod setup

I get the following:

Setting up CocoaPods master repo
[!] Pod::Executable pull

error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

If I navigate to the address in question through my browser I can see the git repo without issue so can't figure out why it's rejecting it now?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2655

Answers (3)

Sazzad Hissain Khan
Sazzad Hissain Khan

Reputation: 40196

Although, I answered there still sharing here for further audiences,

‘403’ means access forbidden. Sometimes your credentials stored in machines become stale especially if you switch between multiple github accounts. Below solution might work,

Mac

  1. Open Keychain app
  2. In Keychain Access, search github.com
  3. Find the "internet password" entry for github.com
  4. Edit or delete the entry accordingly

Windows

  1. Goto control panel > user accounts > credential manager > Windows credentials > Generic credentials
  2. Remove Github keys

Upvotes: 2

Gerard
Gerard

Reputation: 4848

The problem was that I was on an old version of git (1.6.x or something).

I also ran into trouble uninstalling git using the prescribed methods - I ended up needed to navigate to /usr/bin and removing git from there in order to install the latest version.

After that everything worked fine!

Upvotes: 0

Yohst
Yohst

Reputation: 1902

Seems like a temporary problem/glitch, have you tried again and is it working now?

Upvotes: 0

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