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Hey,

I'm running this forum: http://www.hwinfo.com/forum
with some plugins like Google SEO, etc..
I recently got feedback from users that they are getting Error 403 messages (Forbidden) when they perform an action on forum, e.g. posting a new reply (like here: http://www.hwinfo.com/forum/newreply.php?tid=295 ).
The problem is that for me it works properly, so I cannot reproduce it. Maybe a browser issue?

Has anyone experienced a similar problem or does have an idea what could be the issue, or how to trace that problem?

provide a test user account ...

test / Test!!

(2011-10-18, 03:01 PM)ranjani Wrote: [ -> ]provide a test user account ...

^ I have seen forbidden message when I attempted to post a reply as a guest, AND
I can post the reply as a member - so check the posting permissions for each forum ...

That's ok - guests can't post, but members can.
The problem occured to members when they got the 403 Error (not an Access Denied message).

^ as a guest I didn't get the "access denied" message - it was the forbidden message !!

Your host might be firewalling people.

Or maybe an issue with redirection in the Google SEO plugin?

^ if you think Google SEO is the cause then deactivate it, rename .htaccess AND check the issue ...

Seems it was an issue of handling the 403 message. The root dir had its own redirect of 403 error and the MyBB forum (in a folder below) doesn't override it, so 403 errors were not handled by the forum's standard access denied message. Maybe MyBB should override this message...