Title: 403 Error
Last modified: January 11, 2019

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# 403 Error

 *  Resolved [Brew_em](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brew_em/)
 * (@brew_em)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-76/)
 * Hello,
    Been struggling to set up Photonic within my WP site. I am attempting
   to connect to my Google Photos via a newly created API. I’ve configured everything
   per the instructions. However, I get to the Authenticate dialog box and everything
   looks good. I click “ALLOW” and then via this URL: [http://americantradition.net/wp-admin/admin.php?page=photonic-auth&source=google&state=6b352fce291dc811427ce8de632496aa](http://americantradition.net/wp-admin/admin.php?page=photonic-auth&source=google&state=6b352fce291dc811427ce8de632496aa)::%
   252Fwp-admin%252Fadmin.php%253Fpage%253Dphotonic-auth&code=4/zwAAdjnpdms0LoI8s5x6Sm19dRCta2DI5EdAkDq2jHY58PEazy2qSzpPf3d7mJprW3ZKG6-
   f4FgkuOVMRIZL9Ds&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly%
   20https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing%20https://picasaweb.google.
   com/data/
 * I receive this 403 error:
 * Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/admin.php on this server.
 * Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument
   to handle the request
 * Any help appreciated.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2F403-error-76%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-76/#post-11079633)
 * Do you have a security plugin in place? A quick Google search indicates that 
   [your security plugin might be the culprit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-76/)
   since you should be having access to admin.php, particularly through your WP 
   dashboard. You might try temporarily disabling the security plugin and see if
   that helps. If that doesn’t help, try temporarily disabling all your plugins.
   You can reactivate them after you have finished the authentication.
 * If disabling the security plugin is not an option, or if the above does not fix
   the issue, try the workaround [documented here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-photo-authentication-issue/#post-11051551).
 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-76/#post-11119984)
 * Marking this resolved due to there being no response. Please feel free to reopen
   this if you still require help.

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 * Last reply from: [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-76/#post-11119984)
 * Status: resolved