I have been having a weird issue for a while now with gibbon. Every so often when using the website you would run into a 403 error. You would then have to wait 5 to 10 seconds and refresh the page then the page would load properly. After getting the 403 error you can’t access any pages on the website until you’ve waited those 5 to 10 seconds.
It seems like it is potentially something which prevents you from loading too many pages within a short time but is there any way to adjust it?
Hi @Hamziatcha That is strange. A 403 error would generally be on the server side, rather than a PHP or Gibbon error. There could be any number of reasons based on your server configuration, or it could be that the server is low on resources for particular actions. Have you noticed if this happens with specific pages? 403 is generally an access denied message, but the reason for that could be unclear. Also, be sure to check the file permissions and perhaps do a recursive update of all the file permissions, to ensure none of them have accidentally been reset to not have web-server access.
From what I can tell it is not page specific. It is easy to replicate by clicking lots of pages quickly and I would be surprised if it is an error with permissions as after waiting for a few seconds and refreshing the page it will allow you to access it. I will attempt to redo the file permissions and will update you if it does help.
Also I don’t think it’s a server resource issue as I have been looking at the stats and I am nowhere near any of the limits but I will also test it out by running some other software on the website and seeing if I run into similar issues.