A 403 "Forbidden" error is a generic HTTP error that your server will send if it thinks for some reason that you should not be allowed to to have access to the file or script that you have requested. This error can be caused by a lot of things. The key thing to remember though, is that if you see a 403 error, then your server has probably already located the resource that you have requested and verified that it exists. This is a good thing, it means that you're almost there.

Fedora Core enables SELinux by default. Instructions for setting SELinux permissions for MediaWiki are available.

You are not permitted to access this document. It is either password-protected or the host does not want your domain to enter. If you are sure you have access to the site, try typing the password again. If you don't have a password or your domain does not have access to the site, you won't be able to access it.

A 403 Forbidden error occurs when the web server finds itself with insufficient permissions to run your script. Make sure you have given the script proper permissions. In SSH, this is accomplished with: If you are uploading via FTP, your FTP client probably has some facility for setting file permissions. You want to make sure that all choices (user, group, and other) have execute permission.

If you receive the error "403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server", you need to change the permissions of the DocumentRoot and all of its parent directories. The permissions of the DocumentRoot (default:/usr/local/stronghold/htdocs) and its parent directories must be world-readable and world-executable (755). This can be fixed with the command: % chmod 755 DirectoryName

part of the new (as of May 2007) QA/QC checks that the archive conducts on shows that are uploaded, more refined checks are conducted on shows. For more detail, see this forum post: http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=124098 What happens though, when a show either fails it's md5 check, it's internal flac checksum check, or is missing an info.txt file, every non .xml file in the show fileset (the flac files, the mp3's, etc) all become non-downloadable.

AOL users (and users of AOL properties such as CompuServe) sometimes report that they are unable to visit www.crossandcrescent.com via their AOL web browser, receiving the message: “Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Under normal circumstances, the Apache access control modules will pass unrecognized user IDs on to the next access control module in line. Only if the user ID is recognized and the password is validated (or not) will it give the usual success or "authentication failed" messages.

The purpose of the 403, forbidden, error is to control access to Web resources. To overcome an unwanted 403 error you must reverse this situation. If you have problems accessing a particular file or directory, ensure that the Web server has permission to read those files. Usually, the Web server will operate under a special user account, so make sure that user has read permission.

The file permission on your script and/or the directory where your script resides has not been set correctly and the web server cannot access it. You will have to change the file/directory permissions.

The "Forbidden" error occurs when you do not have a valid index document (usually index.html or index.php) for a directory, and directory indexing is disabled. Please upload a valid index document to solve the error.

The request is for something forbidden. Authorization will not help. This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable. (The file needs to be set wit

This error indicates that the page you are trying to access is secured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). In order to view it, you need to enable SSL by typing "https://" at the beginning of the address you are attempting to reach.

This section provides an overview of the basic top-level questions about what MailMan is and what it does.

The 'Forbidden' error occurs when you do not have a main page named 'index.html' uploaded to the appropriate folder in your account. You must name the main page of your site 'index.html'.

Forbidden Errors usually occur when a Web site has restricted access to certain sections, such as "My Account." An error can occur when you try to access a file that can't be accessed directly. You may want to retrace your steps, and try a different route to access the page you were looking for. This error can also occur if you are accessing telus.com from your work computer. Proxy settings of your corporate network may not allow access to secure pages.

The 'Forbidden page' error occurs when the page nameed 'index.html' has not been uploaded to the appropriate folder, or the extension is incorrect. For the webiste to be seen the main page of your site must be named 'index.html' and uploaded into the correct folder on the server.

Symptoms: You cannot seem to login after using the right username and password, into your admin account. You get an error message like: You are not authorized to view this page You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied. If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please try to contact the Web site by using any e-mail address or phone number that may be listed on the personal.fredsmith.com home page.

A 404 Error or Page Not Found Error is the general error message that most webservers return when they cannot located a requested file. This error can be caused by a lot of things. A few possible causes for this error: The "host" part of the URL (i.e. www.endymion.com) was typed correctly, but the "path" part of the URL (i.e. /~nibbles/mail/mmstdod.cgi) was not. The webserver cannot locate other parts of the MailMan distribution, such as the template or graphics files.

Why do I get the error 'Cannot use file <logfile> because it was originally formatted with a different sector size

The error section of the StressMy.com Test Report summarizes the number and type of errors encountered while running a test. (Remember that the Load vs. Time graph also gives a visual display of the errors.) Details of the first 100 errors may be obtained by following the Details... link in the error section of the Test Report.

The AFS file server it sits on has gone down. There are several of these AFS file servers, and one goes down from time to time. Wait a little bit later and it will comes back up.

There may be a number of reasons for receiving this message, most relating to an interruption in contact. Sometimes the connection may be re-established by holding down the "shift" key on the keyboard and clicking on your browser's "reload" or "refresh" button. If this does not solve the problem, clear the cache files and close and restart the browser.

If you receive "403 - Forbidden" errors when you try to view your Veritas or Champion web page after uploading files to your web account, check (A) whether the url is correct, and (B) whether the permissions of the directories and files are correct. Since the directory indexing is turned off on Veritas, if you do not have a default file in the directory and if you provide only the directory name without specifying the file name, you will get 403 error.

Most methods in Net::LDAP return a Net::LDAP::Message object, or a sub-class of that. This object will hold the results from the server, including the result code. mesg = $ldap->bind( $dn, password => $passwd ); if ( $mesg->code ) { # Handle error codes here }

You need to enable error messages in your browser. In IE, go to TOOLS , INTERNET PROPERTIES, ADVANCED tab, UNCHECK "show friendly HTTP error messages" This will allow your browser to show error lines and descriptions instead of the 500 Internal server error.

If your installation of XFree86 3.3/3.3.3 is not complete you may see the following error message when starting an X server: error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy This is a only a warning message, and is mostly harmless. If your server is failing to startup, this is not the reason. Check the other messages. The file being referred to is included in the Xlib.tgz part of the XFree86 binary distributions produced by The XFree86 Project.