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Resolved nikdow
(@nikdow)

2 days, 6 hours ago

Above is an example of many 403 errors reported by BLC.

Link text on the above page is
Click here for the full West Dunbartonshire Literacy Initiative report.

Link works if I test it manually, but BLC is reporting 403 “broken for 4 months”.
I’m wondering the BLC test comes from our EC2 server and is being rejected by a reverse proxy, whereas my own computer is accepted?

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Thread Starter nikdow
(@nikdow)

2 days, 5 hours ago

I should add this is the old checker. If I turn on the cloud version, I still see 403 errors for pages I can load locally. e.g. https://www.udemy.com/help-your-child-to-read-and-write which redirects to: https://www.udemy.com/course/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/

Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support
(@wpmudev-support2)

1 day, 23 hours ago

Hello @nikdow

Hope you are doing well today.

I have visited several links mentioned on your site and came across a page that appears to be protected by Cloudflare’s anti-bot system. It automatically challenges users, and since Broken Link Checker uses a limited number of fixed IP addresses, it is possible that the firewall is blocking it for no valid reason.

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Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about this because we don’t have any control over third-party websites’ firewalls.

You can manually check these links and add them to the ignore list.
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#ignore-url-rules

Best Regards
Amin

Thread Starter nikdow
(@nikdow)

1 day, 11 hours ago

Thanks, I suspected as much, thanks for confirming.

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