Title: Regarding the 403 errors
Last modified: September 19, 2016

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# Regarding the 403 errors

 *  [laikinas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laikinas/)
 * (@laikinas)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regarding-the-403-errors/)
 * Dear,
 * I have been struggling few days to find a fix since our website analysis showed
   that site or the server is blocking automated access. As the result, I am getting
   many 403 forbidden links (resources and images) especially as you see in the 
   image most of 403 errors are from wp-content folder.
    ⌊Errors 403 forbidden⌉
 * If I go to those links and see them manually, they look ok and I don’t get errors.
   But when the crawlers performing multiple simultaneous requests, those errors
   appear. I am afraid that this hurts our website’s seo. Website:`https://www.badetonneholz.
   de`
 * Original message who performed the website analysis:
 * “It looks like your site or the server is blocking automated access or is choking
   
   upon performing multiple simultaneous requests (code-403 “Forbidden by Server”),
   thus preventing proper crawling of your website (hence why search engines have
   trouble fully indexing & properly ranking your site, because they use automated
   bot software to do that and your site blocks them out). This usually happens 
   on WordPress-based websites (like yours) that either use a security plugin to
   block automated access (e.g. “Bad Behavior”, “Wordfence”), or use a misconfigured
   W3 Total Cache plugin. However, it can also happen if your server / hosting provider
   blocks access directly. This behavior is to be avoided at all costs for websites
   that don’t have high rankings or reputation, and is useful ~only~ for really 
   huge websites with lots of attack situations and that already have an established
   rank & reputation. So I strongly recommend disabling any plugins/settings that
   prevent automated access because they only harm your site.”
 * Below is .htaccess content:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WpFastestCache
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.badetonneholz.de
       # Start WPFC Exclude
       # End WPFC Exclude
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(facebookexternalhit|WhatsApp|Mediatoolkitbot)
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\/){2}$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
       RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.+
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/all/$1/index.html -f [or]
       RewriteCond /home/timberin/domains/badetonneholz.de/public_html/wp-content/cache/all/$1/index.html -f
       RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/all/$1/index.html" [L]
       </IfModule>
       <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
       AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
       <ifModule mod_headers.c>
       FileETag None
       Header unset ETag
       Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
       Header set Pragma "no-cache"
       Header set Expires "Mon, 29 Oct 1923 20:30:00 GMT"
       </ifModule>
       </FilesMatch>
       # END WpFastestCache
       # BEGIN GzipWpFastestCache
       <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
       AddType x-font/woff .woff
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype font/ttf font/eot font/otf
       </IfModule>
       # END GzipWpFastestCache
       # BEGIN LBCWpFastestCache
       <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf|x-html|css|xml|js|woff|woff2|ttf|svg|eot)(\.gz)?$">
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
       ExpiresActive On
       ExpiresDefault A0
       ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
       ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
       ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
       ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
       ExpiresByType image/ico A2592000
       ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A2592000
       ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
       ExpiresByType text/javascript A2592000
       ExpiresByType application/javascript A2592000
       ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000
       </IfModule>
       <IfModule mod_headers.c>
       Header set Expires "max-age=2592000, public"
       Header unset ETag
       Header set Connection keep-alive
       FileETag None
       </IfModule>
       </FilesMatch>
       # END LBCWpFastestCache
   
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       Redirect 301 /product/entwerfen-badetonne-modell/ http://www.badetonneholz.de/badefass-kunststoffeinsatz-bauen/
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
        ExpiresActive on
        ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
        ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
        ExpiresByType image/x-ico "access plus 1 year"
        ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 14 days"
        ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 14 days"
        ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 14 days"
        ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 14 days"
        ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 14 days"
       Redirect 301 /holzfasssauna-garten-mit-vorraum-holzofen/ https://www.badetonneholz.de/fasssauna-aussensauna-garten-vorraum-holzofen-kaufen/
       ```
   
 * Thanks
    Albert
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).

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