{"id":19011228,"date":"2026-09-04T04:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=19011228"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:41:43","slug":"persistent-site-connection-errors","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/persistent-site-connection-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Site Connection Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the error on 3 different sites:<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We received a non-200 HTTP code when connecting to your site: 403. The response body was: &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html style=&#8221;height:100%&#8221;&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta name=&#8221;viewport&#8221; content=&#8221;width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no&#8221; \/&gt; &lt;title&gt; 403 Forbidden &lt;\/title&gt;&lt;style&gt;@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){body{background-color:#000!important}}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;\/head&gt; &lt;body style=&#8221;color: #444; margin:0;font: normal 14px\/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; height:100%; background-color: #fff;&#8221;&gt; &lt;div style=&#8221;height:auto; min-height:100%; &#8220;&gt; &lt;div style=&#8221;text-align: center; width:800px; margin-left: -400px; position:absolute; top: 30%; left:50%;&#8221;&gt; &lt;h1 style=&#8221;margin:0; font-size:150px; line-height:150px; font-weight:bold;&#8221;&gt;403&lt;\/h1&gt; &lt;h2 style=&#8221;margin-top:20px;font-size: 30px;&#8221;&gt;Forbidden &lt;\/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;Access to this resource on the server is denied!&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div style=&#8221;color:#f0f0f0; font-size:12px;margin:auto;padding:0px 30px 0px 30px;position:relative;clear:both;height:100px;margin-top:-101px;background-color:#474747;border-top: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset;&#8221;&gt; &lt;br&gt;Proudly powered by LiteSpeed Web Server&lt;p&gt;Please be advised that LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is not a web hosting company and, as such, has no control over content found on this site.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is happening on 3 sites I manage. Previously if a site did not connect, I was able to simply log in to the site and then it would connect without issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have tried clearing site caches, clearing my browser cache\/browsing data, etc. but no luck with these normally simple fixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diagnostics are available.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19011228","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19011228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19011228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19011233,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19011228\/revisions\/19011233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19011228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}