Error 403: What is it and how to fix

HTTP-protocol error «403 Forbidden» means that access to your web site is prohibited.

If this error occurs when you run the indexing, the most likely cause of its occurrence — lock protection system queries your site or web server.

Some CMS with appropriate settings may be preventing requests of our scanner for security reasons or load on a Web server. Recommend that you remove this protection at the time of indexing your site. Also, you can share our robot, using the identification of particular value User-Agent (see Methods for identification of our robot).

This error can also occur due to improperly installed access to the requested file or folder in which it resides. In order to test this — try to open the file in a straight URL-link using the browser. If the page is loaded — change permissions (CHMOD) to file and / or its parent directory. Valid values