Posting this issue/solutions here in case someone ends runs into it.
What solved it for me was disabling Cloudflare's DNS proxy for my gitea domain.
Originally created by @OJ7 on GitHub (Jul 19, 2025).
**command**
`git clone https://token:<TOKEN>@gitea.domain.com/User/RepoName /path/to/repos/RepoName`
**stderr**
Cloning into 'path/to/repos/RepoName'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://gitea.domain.com/User/RepoName The requested URL returned error: 403
Posting this issue/solutions here in case someone ends runs into it.
What solved it for me was disabling Cloudflare's DNS proxy for my gitea domain.
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Originally created by @OJ7 on GitHub (Jul 19, 2025).
command
git clone https://token:<TOKEN>@gitea.domain.com/User/RepoName /path/to/repos/RepoNamestderr
Cloning into 'path/to/repos/RepoName'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://gitea.domain.com/User/RepoName The requested URL returned error: 403
Posting this issue/solutions here in case someone ends runs into it.
What solved it for me was disabling Cloudflare's DNS proxy for my gitea domain.