403 error sometimes

  • jimandms

    (@jimandms)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    I am running BuddyPress and BBpress for activity and forums, respectively.

    However, I am not sure if that has anything to do with this problem. Whenever I go to add a forum post or blog post, I get a 403 error. The error states

    GENERAL
403
At http://jimandms.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=proxy_adt&_wponce=8e96fa05f4&url=/checkDocument

    So for example if I am adding a forum post when I am finished I click on “Publish” as is normal. That is when this error comes up. I click on Ok to clear the error. If I click on “Publish” again then the post goes through normally.

    This has me stumped. It is because that after clearing the error and clicking “Publish” again common sense would seem to say that the error should come up again.

    Has anyone seen this before? Any idea on where I need to look first? I have checked all the file permissions and they seem to be fine. I know that permissions should not throw this error but I was out of ideas about where to look.

    Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
    Jim

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  • kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Have you tried:
    -deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
    -switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    ValleyJim

    (@valleyjim)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    I have done all of that before — a couple times actually…..

    When I did it before I changed to the twenty-twelve and twenty-fifteen themes. With those themes and the only plugin running bbPress I still got the error. Exact same error that I have been getting.

    On a whim I decided to try twenty-sixteen. Had all plugins disabled and did not get the error.

    Reactivated the plugins and still no error!

    I may have to stick with this theme. I do like the look and feel of it and no error is a definite plus.

    But I would still be very curious about why the error. a 403 is usually htaccess or permissions. And why get the error and then repeat the action (in this case clicking the “Publish” button) no error…..
    <shrug>

    Anyway the problem seems to be resolved.

    Thanks for everything!
    Jim

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