Fix Invalid Port Number Error with TortoiseSVN and PuTTY

6/19/2006 by Elliot Lee | Filed in Cosmo Atom Publishing, Life | 77 comments

I just wasted an hour on this, so I hope that explaining the solution here will help someone. If you’re using TortoiseSVN and PuTTY, perhaps using a private key created with PuTTYgen (like me), then this probably applies to you. I’m using Windows XP Pro, but Home is probably the same. I didn’t have this problem before because I just used cygwin’s ssh.exe which worked fine.

PuTTY Internal Error
Invalid Port Number
For TortoiseSVN’s SSH cilent, leave the box blank. Do not choose putty.exe, that doesn’t work. Blank is fine, TortoisePlink is fine. Otherwise you see the error above. When you enter the URL to the repository, use the PuTTY saved session name instead of the server name. For example, if your session is MyConnection, use MyConnection for the server instead of, for example, svn.osafoundation.org.

77 Responses to “Fix Invalid Port Number Error with TortoiseSVN and PuTTY”

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  1. kedell says:
    5/9/2007 at 12:52 am

    Thank you soooooo much… 2 days I’m getting crazy… Great advise…

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  2. Jürgen says:
    5/25/2007 at 4:45 pm

    Thanks! It did help ;)

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  3. Juggy says:
    6/5/2007 at 11:04 am

    thanks. that did it.

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  4. Benjamin says:
    6/22/2007 at 3:16 pm

    Thank you very much! :-)

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  5. Maik says:
    8/9/2007 at 8:10 am

    Thank you! Worked for me, too.

    At the moment i am still using password authentification. For all those who are doing the same led me add, that I needed to insert my Password 3 times in a row. This distracted me quite a while.

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  6. Aaron says:
    8/21/2007 at 11:35 am

    Bless You (and google)

    Thanks! saved me lots of troubleshooting.

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  7. dharana says:
    9/7/2007 at 1:04 am

    Thank you Elliot, you probably saved me a big chunk of time. I came across this problem while trying to relocate my wc to a non-standard port address.

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  8. Browitt says:
    10/18/2007 at 12:17 am

    Like everyone else here, I was banging my head against the wall for quite a while before finding your post — thanks for making it!

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  9. PRX says:
    10/23/2007 at 1:14 pm

    Merci! (thanx)

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  10. C. Enrique Ortiz says:
    11/28/2007 at 4:27 pm

    Thanks! Very helpul

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  11. Asad says:
    1/8/2008 at 7:57 am

    THANK YOU MAN THANK YOU!!! I have a deadline today and I spent most of yesterday trying to do and import. This helped tremendously!!!

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  12. bluewave says:
    2/4/2008 at 10:19 am

    Thank you so much! Now I can work remotely again.

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  13. Mauricio Bitencourt says:
    2/12/2008 at 8:05 am

    Elliot,

    Congratulations, you save my time.

    Thanks,

    Mauricio Bitencourt

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  14. mad says:
    3/2/2008 at 1:24 pm

    thanks, saved an hour :)

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  15. Steve says:
    4/2/2008 at 10:29 am

    Ahhhh!!!! Much better. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  16. Cody Baker says:
    4/15/2008 at 4:10 am

    Thank you!!!! Saved a lot of time!

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  17. mat says:
    5/14/2008 at 8:12 am

    Indeed i think this is a bug of tortoiseSVN. I had the same problem and if you leave the SSH client field blank, it’s fine. You save me from 1 hour of grumbling :)

    thanks

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  18. Jerome says:
    6/4/2008 at 12:25 am

    THANK YOU !!! REALLY THANK YOU !!! You saved me from hours and hours of torture :)

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  19. Nigel says:
    6/16/2008 at 6:21 am

    Cheers ….., been struggling with this all morning

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  20. Morten says:
    7/29/2008 at 2:56 am

    Once more: thanks a lot! :)

    Morten

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  21. dan says:
    9/16/2008 at 1:22 am

    Dude, THANK YOU! I spent DAYS on this, thinking something was wrong with my svn setup or my url for the repository. Well, I only spent a couple hours each day on it, but still.

    THANK YOU.

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  22. Guy says:
    9/24/2008 at 12:25 pm

    ditto, thanks!

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  23. daniel says:
    10/28/2008 at 3:59 pm

    Thanks so much! I wasted a few hours trying different variations of the url, the svn setup, etc. When all along it was because I put putty there!

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  24. sv says:
    11/7/2008 at 9:39 am

    excellent – thank you for posting that.

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  25. Nirmit says:
    2/13/2009 at 11:58 am

    Thanks much !! this was very helpful..

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