Title: 403 Error. Cannot activate after update
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# 403 Error. Cannot activate after update

 *  Resolved [Windurin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windurin/)
 * (@windurin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/)
 * Hi, I recently updated the Ratings Widget plugin. There was a message saying 
   I needed to ‘Activate’ it and a new box saying that you needed to connect my 
   account to rating-widget.com and freemius.com. There is a button saying ‘Allow&
   Continue’. When clicking this button however, I get the following error:
 * ‘403 Forbidden.’
 * Underneath that is says nginx/1.6.2
 * In the URL at the top it says:
 * [https://wp.freemius.com/?error=Site+URL+and+referer+address+are+not+matching](https://wp.freemius.com/?error=Site+URL+and+referer+address+are+not+matching).
 * Could you please tell why this is happening? The Plugin worked before the update
   and I didn’t have to ‘Activate’ it in this way.
 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Vova Feldman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svovaf/)
 * (@svovaf)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/#post-6529868)
 * Hi [@windurin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windurin/),
 * First of all, apologise for the inconvenience. It looks like we are facing a 
   set of bugs due to the major plugin change we deployed. Happy to investigate 
   this further for you. Please contact me via [vova@rating-widget.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/vova@rating-widget.com?output_format=md)
 *  Plugin Author [Vova Feldman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svovaf/)
 * (@svovaf)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/#post-6529870)
 * Please upgrade to 2.6.2 and let me know if that fixed the issue. If not, please
   contact me asap to get this problem resolved.
 *  Thread Starter [Windurin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windurin/)
 * (@windurin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/#post-6529873)
 * Hi,
 * Update 2.6.2 solved the problem. It’s now working as normal. Thanks for the swift
   response!
 *  Plugin Author [Vova Feldman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svovaf/)
 * (@svovaf)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/#post-6529874)
 * **Fantastic!** So happy it’s resolved!
 * Btw. If you have a moment, I would very much appreciate if you could quickly 
   rate the plugin on WP, just to help us spread the word (don’t forget to click
   the Post button to submit the rating):
    [http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/rating-widget#postform](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/rating-widget#postform)
 *  Thread Starter [Windurin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windurin/)
 * (@windurin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/#post-6529875)
 * I just rated it. Thanks again.

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 * Last reply from: [Windurin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windurin/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-cannot-activate-after-update/#post-6529875)
 * Status: resolved