# Inference endpoint, gated repo 401 error
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**Author:**  [@RedFoxPanda](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FRedFoxPanda)%5C
**Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 3:08am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-endpoint-gated-repo-401-error%2F97341%2F1 "2024-07-15T03:08:22Z")
I’m using the inference endpoints website to host a fine tuned model. Initialization fails and tells me that I don’t have authorization to gated repos, yet I should have access.
I’ve tried mistral and llama fine tuned models. I’ve tried AWS and Google server options.
I do have an “access token” associated with my hugging face account so that I can pay for services like CPUs/GPUs, inference endpoint servers, etc.
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**Author:**  [@meganariley](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmeganariley)%5C
**Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-endpoint-gated-repo-401-error%2F97341%2F2 "2024-07-19T18:53:22Z")
Hi @RedFoxPanda In Inference Endpoints, you now have the ability to add an env variable to your endpoint, which is needed if you’re deploying a fine-tuned gated model like Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct.
We have some additional documentation on [environment variables](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/en/package_reference/environment_variables) but the one you’d likely need is [HF\_TOKEN](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/en/package_reference/environment_variables#hftoken). You can add the HF\_TOKEN as the key and your [user access token](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-tokens) as the value. User access tokens can be generated in the [settings](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens) of your account.
Please let me know if you have additional questions!
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**Author:**  [@RedFoxPanda](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FRedFoxPanda)%5C
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-endpoint-gated-repo-401-error%2F97341%2F4 "2024-07-24T17:36:50Z")
This did work. I then had some type of error due to not having enough memory and I upgraded to a higher level gpu/cpu for the cloud computer. “Running” status is now present. Thanks.
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**Author:**  [@meganariley](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmeganariley)%5C
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-endpoint-gated-repo-401-error%2F97341%2F5 "2024-07-24T22:03:43Z")
@RedFoxPanda I’m glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know. 🤗
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**Author:**  [@system](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsystem)%5C
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 10:04am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-endpoint-gated-repo-401-error%2F97341%2F6 "2024-07-25T10:04:04Z")
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