Saving pages with Google Photos goo.gl links Causes 403 Forbidden Error

  • Resolved gerg1400

    (@gerg1400)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi have recently been getting error “403 Forbidden Error. Access to this resource on the server is denied”
    I have worked out that this only occurs when trying to save a page that includes any links to Google Photos that have the short form goo.gl links. If I go through and find any such link to Google Photo Albums and update then to the full url shared links the page will save correctly. Other url links seem fine

    This is frustrating as I cannot even update a page with some simple text if it contains any links to Google Photos of the form goo.gl. Its interesting that everything else works fine and the short form google links did work fine until late Dec 2016

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    403 forbidden means that your browser isn’t able to load the scripts up because your server isn’t allowing it. This is a hard one to solve. Because anything could be blocking the server.
    – Most likely this is a server permissions/ownership issue, so ask your host what’s going on
    – check your .htaccess files for anything strange.
    – make sure your server settings are not overriding the .htaccess file
    – try a full Manual Upgrade, to make sure all the WordPress files are there and correct..
    – Make sure to backup everything (including database) before doing any action, in case.

    Thread Starter gerg1400

    (@gerg1400)

    Thats all good advice. I was just trying to lodge a request with my host provider. After writing down the process and having one failure, I retried and it came good. This is really strange as I have done nothing to fix it. I have feelings it might have been a Google issue and normal links to Google Photos worked fine, it was only the goo.gl short links that caused the 403 problem

    I had checked my htaccess file a couple of days ago and it looked OK

    Thanks for the advice

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to know it ??

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