Title: JSON/REST 401 Forbidden errors Last modified: October 25, 2018 --- # JSON/REST 401 Forbidden errors * Resolved [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/) * (@dglingren) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-rest-401-forbidden-errors/) * I have started getting frequent errors when I access the plugin. Often, refreshing the page will temporarily solve the problem. I’ve had the problem on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The plugin reports: * > Sorry, something went wrong loading the data – please try again * At the top of the page WordPress reports: * > Plugin: 3.5 > WordPress: 4.9.8 (single) PHP: 5.6.17 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows > NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 > Safari/537.36 JavaScript: [http://fairtradejudaica.org/wp-content/plugins/redirection/redirection.js](http://fairtradejudaica.org/wp-content/plugins/redirection/redirection.js) > REST API: [http://fairtradejudaica.org/wp-json/](http://fairtradejudaica.org/wp-json/) > Error: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 > Action: redirection/v1/redirect/? > orderby=id GET Code: 500 Internal Server Error Raw: IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”> 500 Internal Server Error >

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an > internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. >

Please contact the server administrator at [webmaster@fairtradejudaica.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-rest-401-forbidden-errors/webmaster@fairtradejudaica.org?output_format=md) > to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed > just before this error.

More information about this error may be available > in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error > was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. >

> Error: Sorry, you are not allowed to do that. (rest_forbidden) > Action: redirection/ > v1/group/ GET Code: 401 Unauthorized Raw: {“code”:”rest_forbidden”,”message”:” > Sorry, you are not allowed to do that.”,”data”:{“status”:401}} Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) * (@johnny5) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-rest-401-forbidden-errors/#post-10817826) * Your server is returning a 500 error and a forbidden error. I would imagine this is caused by a security plugin or something like that. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘JSON/REST 401 Forbidden errors’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/redirection/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=983639) * [Redirection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/reviews/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-rest-401-forbidden-errors/#post-10817826) * Status: resolved