get 403 Forbidden when accessing images from browser

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Are you using any copy/download/hotlink protection set up via a plugin, .htaccess, or something in your hosting provider’s control panel?

    Thread Starter Dhaval Bharadva

    (@dhavalphp)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    There is no plugin installed for hotlink protection but I am not sure about .htaccess or hosting provider’s end.

    In .htaccess which code should I look for checking the hotlink protection? so I can be assure that there is no code for hotlink protection.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 7 months ago

    What is the contents of you main .htaccess file?

    Also, check for one in the /wp-content/ and /wp-content/uploads/ directories.

    Thread Starter Dhaval Bharadva

    (@dhavalphp)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Here is my .htaccess file of root directory.

    # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
    AddType text/css .css
    AddType text/x-component .htc
    AddType application/x-javascript .js
    .
    .
    .
    AddType application/zip .zip
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType text/css A31536000
    ExpiresByType text/x-component A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/javascript A31536000
    .
    .
    .
    ExpiresByType application/zip A31536000
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "\.(css|htc|less|js|js2|js3|js4|CSS|HTC|LESS|JS|JS2|JS3|JS4)$">
    FileETag MTime Size
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Pragma "public"
        Header append Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"
         Header unset Set-Cookie
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.4.1"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|HTML|HTM|RTF|RTX|SVG|SVGZ|TXT|XSD|XSL|XML)$">
    FileETag MTime Size
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Pragma "public"
        Header append Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.4.1"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|json|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|woff|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip|ASF|ASX|WAX|WMV|WMX|AVI|BMP|CLASS|DIVX|DOC|DOCX|EOT|EXE|GIF|GZ|GZIP|ICO|JPG|JPEG|JPE|JSON|MDB|MID|MIDI|MOV|QT|MP3|M4A|MP4|M4V|MPEG|MPG|MPE|MPP|OTF|ODB|ODC|ODF|ODG|ODP|ODS|ODT|OGG|PDF|PNG|POT|PPS|PPT|PPTX|RA|RAM|SVG|SVGZ|SWF|TAR|TIF|TIFF|TTF|TTC|WAV|WMA|WRI|WOFF|XLA|XLS|XLSX|XLT|XLW|ZIP)$">
    FileETag MTime Size
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Pragma "public"
        Header append Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"
         Header unset Set-Cookie
         Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.4.1"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
# END W3TC Browser Cache
# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_ENC:_gzip]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} w3tc_preview [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_PREVIEW:_preview]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp\-postpass|w3tc_logged_out|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]
    RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f
    RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" [L]
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Page Cache core
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Options +FollowSymlinks
# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType text/css .css
AddType text/x-component .htc
AddType application/x-javascript .js
AddType application/javascript .js2
.
.
.
AddType application/vnd.ms-write .wri
AddType application/vnd.ms-excel .xla .xls .xlsx .xlt .xlw
AddType application/zip .zip
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/css A31536000
ExpiresByType text/x-component A31536000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A31536000
ExpiresByType application/javascript A31536000
.
.
.
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-write A31536000
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-excel A31536000
ExpiresByType application/zip A31536000
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>      

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json 

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]
RedirectMatch 301 /main.php$ http://www.modestmoney.com/
RedirectMatch 301 /thank-you/$ http://www.modestmoney.com/
RedirectMatch 301 /(.*)reviewRead$ http://www.modestmoney.com/
RedirectMatch 301 /(.*)/Apply$ http://www.modestmoney.com/$1/
rewritecond %{http_host} ^modestmoney.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.modestmoney.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*default\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)default\.htm$ http://www.modestmoney.com/$1 [R=301,L]
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 day"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
</IfModule>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
<FilesMatch ".(js|css|html|htm|php|xml)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">
Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(css|gif|ico|jpg|jpeg|js|pdf|png)$">
Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
<filesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|gif|js|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(png)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public"
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch "\.(xml|txt|css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)(\.gz)?$">
Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT"
Header unset ETag
FileETag None
</FilesMatch>

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    # Serve gzip compressed CSS files if they exist
    # and the client accepts gzip.
    RewriteCond "%{HTTP:Accept-encoding}" "gzip"
    RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz" -s
    RewriteRule "^(.*)\.css" "$1\.css\.gz" [QSA]

    # Serve gzip compressed JS files if they exist
    # and the client accepts gzip.
    RewriteCond "%{HTTP:Accept-encoding}" "gzip"
    RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz" -s
    RewriteRule "^(.*)\.js" "$1\.js\.gz" [QSA]

    # Serve correct content types, and prevent mod_deflate double gzip.
    RewriteRule "\.css\.gz$" "-" [T=text/css,E=no-gzip:1]
    RewriteRule "\.js\.gz$" "-" [T=text/javascript,E=no-gzip:1]

    <FilesMatch "(\.js\.gz|\.css\.gz)$">
      # Serve correct encoding type.
      Header append Content-Encoding gzip

      # Force proxies to cache gzipped &
      # non-gzipped css/js files separately.
      Header append Vary Accept-Encoding
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# BEGINNING of EXPIRES
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A300
ExpiresByType text/html A5
ExpiresByType application/javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A604800
ExpiresByType image/gif A604800
ExpiresByType image/png A604800
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A604800
ExpiresByType text/plain A300
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A604800
ExpiresByType video/x-flv A604800
ExpiresByType application/pdf A604800
# END of EXPIRES
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://old.modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://old.modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.old.modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.old.modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

# Browser Caching

FileETag MTime Size

<IfModule expires_module>
    ExpiresActive on
    ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/ico "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/jpe "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType font/truetype "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-font-otf "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/font-woff "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-httpd-php-source "access plus 1 week"
</IfModule>
    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t see anything in there that would exactly block access to media files, then again there’s a lot in there, something could be conflicting.

    Try this:

    1. Rename that file to just “htaccess” (remove the dot).

    2. Create a new .htaccess file with only the following:

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    3. Did that make any difference?

    Thread Starter Dhaval Bharadva

    (@dhavalphp)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    in my current htaccess file contains the expire headers code and all other stuffs related to W3TC. so if i replace the htaccess file then my site will take much time to load and i am scared about if it will be reset my W3TC settings which i have done.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 7 months ago

    This is temporary, 1 or 2 minutes at the most. Make the change, test it, put the old .htaccess file back.

    This is the only way to know if something in there is causing the problem, besides deleting and testing every single line individually, which would take a lot more than 1 or 2 minutes.

    Thread Starter Dhaval Bharadva

    (@dhavalphp)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Yes its because of htaccess i am getting 403 forbidden error. I have replace the htaccess as above then i can able to access the images. can you tell me what should i need to make change in my current htaccess.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, with just the WordPress bits above, now configure W3TC again and everything it adds to .htaccess.

    Checked after each step, and you should find what’s doing it.

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    This part is causing it:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://old.modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://old.modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.old.modestmoney.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.old.modestmoney.com$      [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

    If the referer does not match any of those domains and the file is an image, serve up a 403 forbidden response. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html

    So, get rid of or comment out that section.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Nice catch, Mark!

    Thread Starter Dhaval Bharadva

    (@dhavalphp)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks a lot for your help man

    Abdullah Ali

    (@abdullahalii)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    You guys just ended my 2 days of frustration. THANK YOU all.

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