Title: 403 error
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# 403 error

 *  [kfallis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kfallis/)
 * (@kfallis)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-36/)
 * When i ban a spammer using their ip address and save using this plugin I get 
   this on front or back end of site thereafter
 * Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/plugins.php on this 
   server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use
   an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 * This is the 2nd time it’s happened. How do i fix- so annoying that it takes down
   my site?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-36/#post-5888930)
 * Are you using the latest iTSec plugin release (4.6.10) ?
    Is your WordPress site
   hosted on a Windows or Linux server ? What Web Server are you using ? (Apache,
   nginx, IIS …)
 * Looks like this is a duplicate of the following topic:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-banned-users-option-blocks-all-access-to-my-site-via-the-htaccess-file](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-banned-users-option-blocks-all-access-to-my-site-via-the-htaccess-file)
 * dwinden

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 * Last reply from: [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-36/#post-5888930)
 * Status: not resolved