Title: falcon engine code causing googlebot, bingbot errors
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# falcon engine code causing googlebot, bingbot errors

 *  [flyfisher842](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flyfisher842/)
 * (@flyfisher842)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/falcon-engine-code-causing-googlebot-bingbot-errors/)
 * The following code in the falcon engine is causing googlebot and bingbot 403 
   errors when googlebot and bingbot are used as useragents
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.
   c> #Blocking code for browser pattern: crawl SetEnvIf User-Agent crawl WordfenceBadBrowser
   =1 #Blocking code for browser pattern: bot* SetEnvIf User-Agent bot.* WordfenceBadBrowser
   =1 #Blocking code for browser pattern: bot*,spider,robot SetEnvIf User-Agent 
   bot.*,spider,robot WordfenceBadBrowser=1 Deny from env=WordfenceBadBrowser </
   IfModule> When I took this code out of my main site when using the falcon engine,
   I stopped getting 403 errors when testing using googlebot as referrer on aw-snap.
   info/fileviewer. And started at least getting partial rendering on webmaster 
   tools where I had been getting 403 errors.
 * My webhost is hostmonster.com and don’t know if this is something particular 
   to hostmonster or has not.
 * The 403 errors on my wordpress sites using bps and wordfence just started on 
   11/5.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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