# Ansible playbook won't run.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-wont-run/23595>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 30, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-wont-run/23595 "2017-01-30T12:52:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jonty\_Needham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jonty\_Needham](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonty_Needham)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-wont-run/23595/1 "2017-01-30T12:52:47Z")

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-wont-run/23595/2 "2017-01-30T16:18:57Z")

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That is not a valid play, this is:

- hosts: localhost  
tasks:
- subversion:  
repo: “[https://path/to/my/repo](https://path/to/my/repo)”  
dest: /tmp/  
username: my\_username  
password: my\_password

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**Author:** ![Jonty\_Needham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jonty\_Needham](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonty_Needham)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-wont-run/23595/3 "2017-01-31T10:36:51Z")

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Great – thanks. What a fail!