Title: Error 403 Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Error 403 * [voorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voorn/) * (@voorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/) * I set up a survey and I received 44 responses and everything worked fine. After a couple of days I was notified that when the survey was completed and submitted there was an error message under the thank you message. The error message is: * There was an error. The error status code is: 403 The error message is: Forbidden * I duplicated the survey and reposted the new form and again it worked fine. After 6 respondents the 403 error message reoccured. * How can I rectify this error? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/awesome-surveys/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/awesome-surveys/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Author [Will Brubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthewebmechanic/) * (@willthewebmechanic) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333478) * That’s a bit mysterious * Can you provide a link to where your survey is so I can have a closer look? * Thread Starter [voorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voorn/) * (@voorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333479) * Sure. I’m not sure what link you want so here’s a couple: * The plugin resides here: [http://www.appleiclub.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=awesome-surveys.php](http://www.appleiclub.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=awesome-surveys.php) * The Survey page is Here: [http://www.appleiclub.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1929&action=edit](http://www.appleiclub.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1929&action=edit) * The Main web site is: [http://www.appleiclub.com](http://www.appleiclub.com) * Hope this helps. Thanks for the speedy response. * Plugin Author [Will Brubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthewebmechanic/) * (@willthewebmechanic) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333498) * voorn, * Thanks! That helped me figure out *WHAT* is happening, now I need to see if I can figure out *WHY* * The ‘what’ that is happening is this: When the survey form is generated it is generated with a nonce (you can read about that [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Nonce)) when the survey is submitted, that nonce is verified. In your case, the verification check is failing. * I really have no idea why that is happening. Could I ask you to leave that survey alone for a couple of days? I want to keep checking it and see if the nonce gets regenerated. * Also, can you navigate to Settings -> General and look at your time settings. Tell me what is reported in UTC date/time & local time/date [see screenshot](http://cl.ly/image/0C0p0w3H2K1p) * Thread Starter [voorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voorn/) * (@voorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333499) * “Could I ask you to leave that survey alone for a couple of days?” Sure. * Here the time information * **Timezone** New York UTC time is 2014-09-27 13:10/07 Local time is 2014-09-27 9:10:07 * Plugin Author [Will Brubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthewebmechanic/) * (@willthewebmechanic) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333500) * Awesome, thanks. Is the time information a copy/paste or is the ‘/’ a typo in the UTC time * > 13:10/07 * Thread Starter [voorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voorn/) * (@voorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333501) * Sorry. Should be 13:10:07 * Plugin Author [Will Brubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthewebmechanic/) * (@willthewebmechanic) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333502) * And is the time correct (more or less?) or is it off by ~20 – 30 minutes? * Thread Starter [voorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voorn/) * (@voorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333504) * It seems to be off by 30 minutes * Plugin Author [Will Brubaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthewebmechanic/) * (@willthewebmechanic) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333506) * I can’t tell you definitively that the time settings are causing this, but since the WordPress functions that generate & verify nonces rely on time settings it does seem to be the most likely culprit. * I’m not sure where to tell you to begin troubleshooting the wrong time issue. It could be caused by dozens of different things. If I were you, I would start by contacting my host to see if they can give you any insight into why your time is off. The server could simply be set to the incorrect time, php.ini may be misconfigured…it’s really hard to say. * If I get some time, I may try to recreate those conditions on a local server to see if I get the same result. Other than that, I don’t think I can troubleshoot your problem any further until the time issue is resolved. Sorry about that 🙁 * Thread Starter [voorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voorn/) * (@voorn) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333507) * Thanks for your efforts * [gregcrowe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregcrowe/) * (@gregcrowe) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333672) * Hi, I thought I’d add to this thread rather than create a new one, since it looks like I have the same problem. It started giving a 403 error after a few days. * My site: [http://www.gameindustry.com/](http://www.gameindustry.com/) * The survey page: [http://www.gameindustry.com/game-of-the-year-voting/](http://www.gameindustry.com/game-of-the-year-voting/) * My time values: UTC time is 2015-02-26 16:27:23 Local time is 2015-02-26 11:27: 23 * These were within a few seconds of being correct when I pulled them. * [spdsk8n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spdsk8n/) * (@spdsk8n) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333675) * I also am getting this error… the only difference is I just installed the plugin and created the survey and right out of the gate… 403 * Is there any update to this issue?? Seems like multiple people are experiencing it. * Thanks Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Error 403’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/awesome-surveys_f9f9f9.svg) * [Awesome Surveys](https://wordpress.org/plugins/awesome-surveys/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/awesome-surveys/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/awesome-surveys/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/awesome-surveys/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/awesome-surveys/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/awesome-surveys/reviews/) * 12 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [spdsk8n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spdsk8n/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-420/#post-5333675) * Status: not resolved