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Forbidden error 403

Hi, I'm trying to understand why, all of a sudden, I am unable to access a regularly accessed forum from any of my Apple products! I can still access from a windows machine, but my ipad and macbook pro both give me the 403 error. Regardless of whether I use Safari, Icab, Atomic web, etc.
Any insight into why this would start all of a sudden, and a possible starting point to try and remedy the problem, would be greatly appreciated. The error.......

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forums/ on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.polarisatvforums.com Port 80

The forum is ....polarisatvforums.com

Thanks for any suggestions.

various

Posted on Jan 30, 2011 8:08 AM

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Jan 30, 2011 8:22 AM in response to wrangled

Hi,

I was able to access the site but had to use the Develop menu.

In Safari, from your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Advanced tab. Enable the Develop menu at the bottom of that pane. Now from your Safari menu bar click Develop / User Agent / Safari 4.0.5 - Mac.

Definitely won't open on Safari 5.0.3 nor Firefox nor Google Chrome.

The next time you launch Safari it will default to 5.0.3.







Carolyn 🙂

Jul 1, 2012 8:39 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn - I seem to be having similar problems but on a different site. I was able to access this site fine quite regularly in fact...This is what I get as an error message:

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

www.chaletganesha.com
Mon Jul 2 05:36:47 2012
Apache


Appreciate any tips or help!

Forbidden error 403

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