ERROR 403: Forbidden on Redirects & Admin Page

  • Resolved robscott

    (@robscott)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    Am aware that this was addressed with yesterday’s update, and in a forum post which went a little berserk, but thought I’d mention that the ERROR 403: Forbidden also throws (threw) on any redirect in the site, which broke one or two things here or there until we updated to latest version.

    Leaving a note here in case this issue persists, and in case anyone is on the pre-yesterday update of this plugin and is wondering why that error message is displaying on some page or other.

    Note “mysite.com/wp-admin” usually IS A redirect to wp-login.php with a query string after it, hence this is why that page will most likely be the one which throws the error.

    Feel free to mark as resolved pretty much immediately assuming (as I think) the most recent release addresses this.

    Thanks for a very useful anti-comment-spam solution.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/

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  • Thread Starter robscott

    (@robscott)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    So to clarify, the solution is:

    If you are getting ERROR 403: Forbidden and you use plugin wp-spamshield installed, try the following.

    1) Rename / remove the plugin wp-spamshield from your plugins folder
    2) login to WP
    3) update to latest version of plugin
    4) resolved!

    Thread Starter robscott

    (@robscott)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    UPDATE – looks like this issue has reappeared. Plugin somehow appears to be altering file permissions in a place or two. Is this expected behaviour?

    Plugin Contributor redsand

    (@redsand)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi robscott,

    The issue should be completely resolved in the latest version. So to be clear, you are having the exact same issue as yesterday? That shouldn’t be possible as the code that caused it is removed. Can you elaborate a bit?

    – Scott

    Plugin Contributor redsand

    (@redsand)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Just a quick update. Any issues related to the 403 error are 100% resolved as of Version 1.4.2 so I’m going to mark this thread as resolved.

    If I read your question right, you have a second issue where you feel that it might be altering file permissions somewhere? No file permissions were modified in the plugin code with these recent updates. Have you had a chance to look at the FAQ’s and Troubleshooting Guide? These have a lot of good info on troubleshooting, including file permissions info. If that doesn’t take care of the issue, I will need more details in order to look into the issue you’re having there. In this case, please fill out a support request and I’ll be happy to look into it personally for you.

    Thread Starter robscott

    (@robscott)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    The file permissions issue was another plugin – please disregard.

    Note the “reappearence” was a cached error page. My fault.

    Plugin Contributor redsand

    (@redsand)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi robscott,

    No worries. Thanks for the update. 🙂

    – Scott

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