{"id":7022445,"date":"2016-02-03T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/error-403-429\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:59:24","slug":"error-403-429","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/error-403-429\/","title":{"rendered":"Error 403"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My site yesterday just started shutting down access to it. I changed the allow deny permissions in the  .htaccess file which worked for a while. Now the site is down again. this is my htaccess file. Is this a server thing?<\/p>\n<p># Block brute force attacks against WordPress<br \/>\nErrorDocument 403 &#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&lt;Files ~ &#8220;^wp-login.php&#8221;&gt;<br \/>\nOrder allow,deny<br \/>\nDeny from all<br \/>\nSatisfy All<br \/>\n&lt;\/Files&gt;<\/p>\n<p># protect xmlrpc<br \/>\n# comment this out if you use JetPack<br \/>\n&lt;Files xmlrpc.php&gt;<br \/>\n        Order Allow,Deny<br \/>\n        Deny from all<br \/>\n&lt;\/Files&gt;<\/p>\n<p># Contact info@edigest.com with any questions<br \/>\n# and before making changes to php_flags or caching settings below<br \/>\nphp_flag display_startup_errors off<br \/>\nphp_flag display_errors off<br \/>\nphp_flag html_errors off<br \/>\nphp_flag log_errors off<br \/>\nphp_flag ignore_repeated_errors on<br \/>\nphp_flag ignore_repeated_source on<br \/>\nphp_flag report_memleaks off<br \/>\nphp_flag track_errors off<br \/>\nphp_value docref_root 0<br \/>\nphp_value docref_ext 0<br \/>\nphp_value error_log \/home\/ossiinc\/public_html\/php_errors.log<br \/>\n# some error_reporting values:<br \/>\n# http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/errorfunc.constants.php<br \/>\n# -1 everything<br \/>\n# 4339 custom value that only logs issues that affect the functioning of your site<br \/>\nphp_value error_reporting 0<br \/>\nphp_value log_errors_max_len 1024<\/p>\n<p>&lt;Files php_errors.log&gt;<br \/>\n Order allow,deny<br \/>\n Allow from all<br \/>\n Satisfy All<br \/>\n&lt;\/Files&gt;<\/p>\n<p>#DirectoryIndex index.html index.php<br \/>\nphp_value session.save_path \/home\/ossiinc\/tmp<\/p>\n<p># BEGIN WPSuperCache<br \/>\n&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;<br \/>\nRewriteEngine On<br \/>\nRewriteBase \/<br \/>\n#If you serve pages from behind a proxy you may want to change &#8216;RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on&#8217; to something more sensible<br \/>\nAddDefaultCharset UTF-8<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^\/]$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\/\/.*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTPS} on<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index-https.html.gz -f<br \/>\nRewriteRule ^(.*) &#8220;\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index-https.html.gz&#8221; [L]<\/p>\n<p>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^\/]$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\/\/.*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index.html.gz -f<br \/>\nRewriteRule ^(.*) &#8220;\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index.html.gz&#8221; [L]<\/p>\n<p>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^\/]$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\/\/.*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTPS} on<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index-https.html -f<br \/>\nRewriteRule ^(.*) &#8220;\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index-https.html&#8221; [L]<\/p>\n<p>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^\/]$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\/\/.*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\\&#8221;]+ [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index.html -f<br \/>\nRewriteRule ^(.*) &#8220;\/wp-content\/cache\/supercache\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/index.html&#8221; [L]<br \/>\n&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/p>\n<p># END WPSuperCache<br \/>\n# BEGIN WordPress<br \/>\n&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;<br \/>\nRewriteEngine On<br \/>\nRewriteBase \/<br \/>\nRewriteRule ^index\\.php$ &#8211; [L]<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br \/>\nRewriteRule . \/index.php [L]<br \/>\n&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/p>\n<p># END WordPress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7022445","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-403-error","topic-tag-htaccess","topic-tag-wp-config"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7022445","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7022445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}