Title: Please help. ERROR 403 – FORBIDDEN
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Please help. ERROR 403 – FORBIDDEN

 *  [mfonabel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfonabel/)
 * (@mfonabel)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-error-403-forbidden/)
 * Please help. I am not a Technical, programmer or geek. I am just a normal internet
   surfer.
 * There is a WordPress blog that i help someone to login and update news twice 
   a day but just two days ago, it has been showing ERROR 403 – FORBIDDEN. I cant
   even login in to the site.
 * Please help, how do i resolve this? can anyone help me out? i am not technical.
 * Thanks

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-error-403-forbidden/#post-4816392)
 * See [http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html](http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html)
   for an explanation of a 403 error. But at this point I would contact your host
   for help in troubleshooting.
 *  Thread Starter [mfonabel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfonabel/)
 * (@mfonabel)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-error-403-forbidden/#post-4816394)
 * Thanks, here is the website [http://www.thebusinessdispatch.com](http://www.thebusinessdispatch.com)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-error-403-forbidden/#post-4816416)
 * You need to contact Hostgator if you don’t know why. It’s possibly a broken .
   htaccess, but they’ll be able to help you get into the logs.

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 * [hostgator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hostgator/)

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