Title: 403 errors
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 403 errors

 *  [LinkAssist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkassist/)
 * (@linkassist)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-errors-3/)
 * Greetings all –
    I’ve been getting a lot of “403 forbidden” errors on good links.
   Some are due to hotlink prevention through Cloudflare, so I unchecked “HTML images”
   from “Which Links to Check” as [suggested by Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-403-forbidden-in-blc)(
   author of Broken Link Checker). I also removed HEAD from the root .htaccess file(
   per the Bullet Proof Security [recommendation](http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/broken-link-checker-plugin-403-error/http://))
 * I’m still getting a lot of 403 errors though. Any suggestions or solutions out
   there? Thanks in advance.
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