Title: Redirection not working, generated 403
Last modified: September 15, 2021

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# Redirection not working, generated 403

 *  Resolved [yanj2004](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yanj2004/)
 * (@yanj2004)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/)
 * I updated all of the plugins. Most of features were good after upgrade, except
   for redirection.
 * I checked the Tool > redirection, it showed 403 error.
    (screenshot: [https://ibb.co/tDHN219](https://ibb.co/tDHN219))
 * I have any idea how to solve it. I rename .htaccess as .htaccess.bak, the whole
   website is crashed. I had to take back .htaccess file. At least the web site 
   had something there.

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14876300)
 * Your .htaccess file has nothing to do with Redirection. You should not touch 
   it unless you know what you are doing.
 * What is the URL?
 *  Thread Starter [yanj2004](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yanj2004/)
 * (@yanj2004)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14878940)
 * Hi John, what’s URL you ask for?
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14879458)
 * Is this the same problem as your other thread, because it would be easier to 
   keep them together.
 *  [smarterdigitalltd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smarterdigitalltd/)
 * (@smarterdigitalltd)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14881545)
 * I don’t want to hijack, but I’m getting this same issue. The admin screen doesn’t
   return the list of redirects and all of the REST endpoints that Redirection publishes/
   accesses seem to return a 403.
 * I’ve tried hard-coding “true” as the return value into the permission callbacks
   inside api-redirect.php, api-settings.php for testing purposes, but even that
   doesn’t stop the 403.
 * It’s reporting a cookie/nonce issue: [https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nul8gpW](https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nul8gpW)
 * I’ve tried reverting back to ver 5.1.2 and even 5.0.0 but the same issue.
 * What’s odd about this is that our production site hasn’t had any plugin/code 
   updates for 4-5 weeks (but is on 5.1.3), but redirects have been added using 
   Redirection as recently as last week and it’s seemingly stopped working suddenly.
   It could indicate a hosting thing, perhaps, but the same 403s are happening on
   local dev environments.
 * Non-Redirection REST endpoints seem to still work.
 * Redirects still seem to work on the front end.
 * I’m a bit puzzled! Not sure it’s a Redirection issue or something external, but
   I noticed this thread and thought I’d mention it.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14881652)
 * [@smarterdigitalltd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smarterdigitalltd/) 
   and cookie nonce error is usually caused by caching, and logging out, clearing
   all your caches, and logging in again might help. This is unrelated to the original
   problem in this thread.
 *  Thread Starter [yanj2004](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yanj2004/)
 * (@yanj2004)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14882827)
 * Hi John,
 * Please ignore several of the issues I mentioned earlier.
 * Again, let me clarify the situation.
 * 1. when I upgrade the site (both theme and plugin), all redirection detections
   come up with 403 errors.
    [https://ibb.co/V3ZnYS0](https://ibb.co/V3ZnYS0) [https://ibb.co/tDHN219](https://ibb.co/tDHN219)
 * 2. when I revert the theme to the previous version, it is still 403.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-not-working-generated-403/#post-14882857)
 * That URL is not accessible, therefore the URL checker will always fail.

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