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am I seeing a 403 Forbidden error message? Browse by products and services DV and VPS Hosting Grid Shared Hosting Legacy DV Hosting Applies to: Grid Difficulty: Medium 403 forbidden error fix Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: FTP client, plain text editor Applies 403 forbidden nginx to: All DV Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: FTP client, plain text editor Overview The 403
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Forbidden error is an HTTP status code which means that accessing the page or resource you were trying to reach is absolutely forbidden for some reason. This article
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contains basic troubleshooting instructions for 403 Forbidden errors. Symptom You get the following error when you try to visit a web page: Figure 1. Causes and Solutions There are three common causes for this error. Here they are listed from most likely to least likely. Empty html directory Empty httpdocs directory Make sure that your website content has 403 forbidden iis been uploaded to the correct directory on your server. Remember to replace example.com with your own domain name. Grid: /domains/example.com/html/ This is the path you will use for FTP. However, the full path to your website content is /home/00000/domains/example.com/html/. The 00000 is your site number. See this article for details. DV server: /var/www/vhosts/dv-example.com/httpdocs/ When you connect with your FTP user, you just need to navigate into the httpdocs directory. If this folder does not exist, feel free to create it. No index page The home page for your website must be called index.php or index.html. To resolve this error, upload an index page to your htmlhttpdocs directory. If you already have a home page called something else - home.html for example - you have a couple of options: Rename your home page to index.html or index.php. Set up a redirect on the index page to your real home page. See How do I redirect my site using a .htaccess file? for details. Set a different default home page in your .htaccess.htaccess file
Status codes 301 Moved Permanently 302 Found 303 See Other 403 Forbidden 404 Not Found 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons v t e A web server may or may not return a 403 Forbidden HTTP 403 in response to a request from a
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client for a web page or resource to indicate that the server can be reached 403 forbidden request forbidden by administrative rules. and understood the request, but refuses to take any further action. Status code 403 responses are the result of the web server being configured http error 403 the service you requested is restricted to deny access, for some reason, to the requested resource by the client. A typical request that may receive a 403 Forbidden response is a GET for a web page, performed by a web browser to retrieve the https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204644980/why-am-i-seeing-a-403-forbidden-error-message page for display to a user in a browser window. The web server may return a 403 Forbidden status for other types of requests as well. The Apache web server returns 403 Forbidden in response to requests for url paths that correspond to filesystem directories, when directory listings have been disabled in the server and there is no Directory Index directive to specify an existing file to be returned to the browser. Some administrators configure the Mod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403 proxy extension to Apache to block such requests, and this will also return 403 Forbidden. Microsoft IIS responds in the same way when directory listings are denied in that server. In WebDAV, the 403 Forbidden response will be returned by the server if the client issued a PROPFIND request but did not also issue the required Depth header, or issued a Depth header of infinity.[1] Contents 1 Difference from status "401 Unauthorized" 2 403 substatus error codes for IIS 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Difference from status "401 Unauthorized"[edit] Status codes 401 (Unauthorized) and 403 (Forbidden) have distinct meanings. A 401 response indicates that access to the resource is restricted, and the request did not provide any HTTP authentication. It is possible that a new request for the same resource will succeed if authentication is provided. The response must include an HTTP WWW-Authenticate header to prompt the user-agent to provide credentials. If valid credentials are not provided via HTTP Authorization, then 401 should not be used.[2] A 403 response generally indicates one of two conditions: Authentication was provided, but the authenticated user is not permitted to perform the requested operation. The operation is forbidden to all users. For example, requests for a directory listing return code 403 when directory listing has been disabled. 403 substatus error codes for IIS[edit] en.Wikipedia error message The following nonstandard code
by the URL is forbidden for some reason. This indicates a fundamental access problem, which may be difficult to resolve because the HTTP protocol allows the Web server to give http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html this response without providing any reason at all. So the 403 error is equivalent to a blanket 'NO' by the Web server - with no further discussion allowed. By far the most common reason for this error is that directory browsing is forbidden for the Web site. Most Web sites want you to navigate using the URLs in the Web pages for that site. They do not often allow you 403 forbidden to browse the file directory structure of the site. For example try the following URL (then hit the 'Back' button in your browser to return to this page): http://www.checkupdown.com/accounts/grpb/B1394343/ This URL should fail with a 403 error saying "Forbidden: You don not have permission to access /accounts/grpb/B1394343/ on this server". This is because our CheckUpDown Web site deliberately does not want you to browse directories - you have to navigate http error 403 from one specific Web page to another using the hyperlinks in those Web pages. This is true for most Web sites on the Internet - their Web server has "Allow directory browsing" set OFF. Fixing 403 errors - general You first need to confirm if you have encountered a "No directory browsing" problem. You can see this if the URL ends in a slash '/' rather than the name of a specific Web page (e.g. .htm or .html). If this is your problem, then you have no option but to access individual Web pages for that Web site directly. It is possible that there should be some content in the directory, but there is none there yet. For example if your ISP offers a 'Home Page' then you need to provide some content - usually HTML files - for the Home Page directory that your ISP assigns to you. Until the content is there, anyone trying to access your Home Page could encounter a 403 error. The solution is to upload the missing content - directly yourself or by providing it to your ISP. Once the content is in the directory, it also needs to be authorised for public access via the Internet. Your ISP should do this