What Could Be Causing This Error Message
Not sure if this is where I should post this since I'm working with a host and not my own server..
Anyway...I'm about to pull my hair out!
I've got this client site under development and he's using the same host as I do for my site.
Here's what happens:
I'll click a link to an active page.
Some images and the style sheet will not load.
If I refresh or click a different active link I'll get a message like this:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /retirement.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at corwinforcongress.com Port 80
Tech support said I may be triggering security by clicking through too fast...but it happens sporadically yet often, and seems to only happen with Firefox!
The code is all valid, and there are no other internal server errors happening.
It's driving me nuts!
This is the site I'm working on.
Roo
James posted this at 23:39 — 18th February 2006.
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http://corwinforcongress.com/retirement.php
Shows up for me.
Roo posted this at 23:50 — 18th February 2006.
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That's just one of the latest...it happens with all pages...
I stared at the top and was able to click five links..when I clicked the sixth..'Join Us' the page loaded without stylesheet and images.
When I hit reload I got:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /joinus.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at corwinforcongress.com Port 80
Roo
Michael Allison posted this at 00:14 — 19th February 2006.
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It might be your Firefox install, though that is somewhat illogical. I'm using it and flipping through the sight at high speed, not even waiting for pages to load sometimes, and all is well.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
-Henry David Thoreau
Roo posted this at 00:22 — 19th February 2006.
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Very strange! I've been using this version of Firefox forever with no issues except for what's happening with this site!
Busy posted this at 09:33 — 19th February 2006.
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Do you use a htaccess file on this site? (i get forbidden if trying to access it), if so any errors in there?
Last few months I have had issues with FF, seems a lot of pages time out (error loading this page ...) even thou I see the page start to load. Different error to yours but still a load error.
All pages seem to load ok on FF here, even the 404 on events.php works
Roo posted this at 09:50 — 19th February 2006.
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I have an .htaccess in the root, and about an hour ago I put one in the pMachine directory...both are empty. Permissions on both are set to 644.
Should I do something with either one of those .htaccess files.
There is no index.html file, only an index.php....should I try adding an index.html and then do this in the .htacess maybe? >>>DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Roo
Busy posted this at 10:01 — 19th February 2006.
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browser will automatically go thru a list of defaults, index (htm, html, php ..) default ... so need need to set it
Do you have any .html pages on the site? if so do they get effected the same way?
you reckon both .htaccess files are empty? do you have a httpd file in root?
Normally you can view folders and the htaccess file itself, the only way to block it is from server setting - usually via htaccess.
It's weird but my guess is there is a file your unaware of and FF is timing out and causing this file not to load properly.
I get some of my sites (viewed online) displaying without stylesheets, but re appears on reload.
GDVS posted this at 11:10 — 1st April 2006.
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Actually the decision of what page to serve if only a folder name is given is made by the server, the browser doesn't get involved with that.
As for it being too many requests in a short time...
#!/bin/bashfor i in `seq 1 100`;
do
wget -o log <a href="http://corwinforcongress.com/retirement.php" class="bb-url">http://corwinforcongress.com/retirement.php</a>
grep 403 log > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ];
then
echo "Forbidden!"
fi
rm retirement.php
done
That little piece of script downloads the retirement page 100 times in fast succession checking for a 403 error every time. Not a single failure so as it grabbed about 5 pages a second I'd say that's probably not the problem.
However, I have no idea what IS the problem as no matter what I do I can't make it happen for me, all I can suggest is looking in your server error logs and hoping it gives you a reason for the 403.
Roo posted this at 19:07 — 8th March 2006.
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Well it's still happening, but for now I'm going to say it's an odd FF issue. Because it doensn't happen with Mozilla or with Netscape 8 set to use the Firefox rendering engine.
Very strange indeed.
Roo
Busy posted this at 21:46 — 8th March 2006.
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I'm still having timeout and image not displaying with FF as well, last time I update to new version of anything
mairving posted this at 04:01 — 9th March 2006.
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Do you have accesss the server error logs? They can often provide a little more insight into the issue?
Do you have Frontpage Extensions installed? I have seen problems like this with FP Ext before.
It seems like I have also seen something about FF loading pages too fast. I will try to find out where I have seen that.
Mark Irving
I have a mind like a steel trap; it is rusty and illegal in 47 states
Roo posted this at 04:48 — 10th March 2006.
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No Frontpage anything...Arrggh... why would anyone do that!?
I see a lot of this is the error log:
client denied by server configuration: /home/drjimi/public_html/bluearrow.gif
Roo
Nikolas posted this at 14:17 — 21st March 2006.
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Do you have mod_rewrite rules or mod_evasive in your site?
These problems are occured some times due to bandwidth restrictions (anti DOS modules)
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