Thread: 403 Forbidden

403 Forbidden means the file that you viewed on the server (webpage) doesn't exist anymore, it's nothing to do with your computer. It actually occurs when the person who owns the website creates a 'folder' and puts nothing in it or removes the contents of the folder. E.G.

http://www.website.com/folder/index.html

index.html is the file and 'folder' is the folder which contains the index.html file. If you remove the index.html file and look at the website like this:

http://www.website.com/folder/

Then you will get a 403 error.

Hope this makes sense.

Scott.

Hi Scotty,

According to the Forum owner and Administrator, there is nothing wrong at his end.

It's a fairly well known web site called The Needlebar.org

Looks like I'm stuck.

Ken

Depends on what you're after on the website however a '403' error is DEFINITELY something wrong with the website. The forum owner/administrator sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about. What was the original website address you were looking at to elicit the error?

-Scott.

Hi Ken, link works fine for me, try this link and if it fails cut and paste the exact message (screen shot would be even better).


NeedleBar • Index page



joez

Originally Posted by joez

Hi Ken, link works fine for me, try this link and if it fails cut and paste the exact message (screen shot would be even better).


NeedleBar • Index page



joez

Link didn't work for me.

Here's a screenshot

Link worked for me, using Firefox

Works here too.

Joez,

Your suggestion did not work.

This is the link I normally use to get to the web site.

NeedleBar • Index page

Please read this announcement if you wish to continue using the NeedleBar Forums, the NeedleBar Picture Library, the NeedleBar Main Site and all other ...
www.needlebar.org/ - Cached or

The NeedleBar Main Site

The NeedleBar is an international group of enthusiastic vintage and antique ...
needlebar.org/main~nb/ - Cached


Ken

Works OK for me.

The only suggestion I can make is to flush your browser cache and delete any cookies for the site.

Hi Snowy,

When it comes to computers, I'm hopeless. Same goes for women.

Step by step, how do I flush my browser cache and delete cookies?

I use Firefox.

Ken

Ken,

Under the Tools tab there's a menu option that says Clear Recent History.
If you click on that, you'll get a list of things that can be cleared.
Select Cache and Cookies.

If you don't want to delete all of the cookies, then you can selectively delete them in the Preferences menu.

From the Edit tab, select Preferences
On the Preferences popup, select the Privacy tab and click the Cookies button.
This will give you a list of all of the cookies your system has stored. You can type a match string to just get the correct cookies listed and then delete them.

I must be dumber than I thought.

Got thru the first bit under the Tools tab, but under the Edit tab, there is no Preferences.

Listed but greyed out is
Undo
Redo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete

then

Select all
Find
Find again

No Preferences

Sorry to be APITA

Ken

My mistake, I run Linux and my description applied to that.

Under the Windows version, click the Tools tab and then the Option tab.
This is where you'll find the cookie info.

Did you run the first part and actually delete private info including cookies? If so, there's no need to do the second part as all of the cookies will be gone.

Hi Snowy,

Still no luck, still get "403 Forbidden" message, any more ideas?

Ken