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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: paulandre on December 26, 2016, 03:40:47 PM

Title: http 403 forbidden
Post by: paulandre on December 26, 2016, 03:40:47 PM
Some user have frequent http403 forbidden error message on my forum. Some have no problems. Any ideas? I attached a sreenshot

Title: Re: http 403 forbidden
Post by: Illori on December 26, 2016, 04:34:49 PM
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Mod_security_-_Having_problems_with_mod_security
Title: Re: http 403 forbidden
Post by: a10 on December 27, 2016, 09:05:27 AM
Go through the server logs (if you have access to them) and find all occurences, timestamps etc of the 403's, then have a serious chat with your host.

& check content of .htaccess (if in use) and see if anything there may cause trouble. For example, have seen .htaccess 'deny' 403's spilling over to legitimate ip's due to server slowness\caching...