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    • Indiatravelz
      Indiatravelz last edited by

      Hi,

      I use WordPress CMS with Yoast SEO plugin.  I have just found out that my 403 errors increased dramatically. It seems that all my tags below of each post are being broken for some reason. When i click on the tags i get the following massage: **403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. **

      I assume it has something to do with the configuration within Yoast SEO plugin.

      Dose anyone know how should i fix that?

      Thanks,

      Raviv

      evsGujA

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      • evolvingSEO
        evolvingSEO @Indiatravelz last edited by

        Awesome! Definitely happy you let us know 😉

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        • Indiatravelz
          Indiatravelz @Indiatravelz last edited by

          Hi Dan,

          Just wanted to let you know that the problem is fixed at last:)

          WP support suggested to check this out with the hosting and bingo! Apparently is happened because of a massive on many WP sites ( Brute Force Attack ) which blocked some of my files and that was the reason for the 403's.

          I thought that you might want to know.

          Again, thanks so much for your help!!!

          Raviv

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          • Indiatravelz
            Indiatravelz @evolvingSEO last edited by

            For sure!

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            • evolvingSEO
              evolvingSEO @Indiatravelz last edited by

              Hi Raviv - great, that will be your quickest source to the answer I think at this stage. Do update us if you can!

              -Dan

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              • Indiatravelz
                Indiatravelz @evolvingSEO last edited by

                Hey Dan,

                Thanks so much for your help! really!

                I still didn't fix it but as you said the tags themselves are broken. when i viewed them in the tags archive i get the same thing guess what? 403!

                anyways, I will contact the help forum as you suggested hopefully they'll be able to tell me how to get it done.

                Thanks again!

                Raviv

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                • evolvingSEO
                  evolvingSEO @Indiatravelz last edited by

                  Ah good! We've ruled out Yoast. Either one of two things are going on;

                  1. Tags are simply broken.

                  2. Maybe the link to the tags are just broken.

                  Can you adjust the URL at all to get to tags? Maybe the links are adding something extra in the URL making it incorrect? Or you can't get to tags at all. From within the Admin section, try going to Posts->Tag and hovering over a tag click "view" to try and view that tag archive. If it's still broken then it's tags themselves.

                  Either way this is leaning more towards a development issue, and maybe you want to contact the help department for your theme, or try the WordPress help forum.

                  -Dan

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                  • Indiatravelz
                    Indiatravelz @evolvingSEO last edited by

                    Hey Dan,

                    So I've tested it and it seems that I still get those broken links even when the Yoast plug in was disabled. In both tests i got the same results- 403.

                    Any suggestions of how to fix it?

                    Cheers,

                    Raviv

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                    • evolvingSEO
                      evolvingSEO @Indiatravelz last edited by

                      Hi Raviv

                      Yes, go to plugins and hit "disable" - you shouldn't lose your information, but I would take screenshots or write down of your settings just in case. Definitely don't delete the plugin - just disable it temporarily.

                      Let me know!

                      -Dan

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                      • Indiatravelz
                        Indiatravelz @evolvingSEO last edited by

                        Hi Dan!

                        Thanks for helping here!

                        2nd test result - even when I'm not being logged in to WP then I still get the 403 error

                        with regard to the 1st test ( shunting off the plugin) : 1 )  shall i do it by the  'deactivate' function in the plugins section? or is it something in I need to do withing the setting of Yoast plug in itself.

                        1. either way is shutting off the plug in means that I will have to reconfigure the plugin from the beginning after switching it back on?

                        Sorry ... I'm still very new to this

                        Thanks Again

                        Raviv

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                        • evolvingSEO
                          evolvingSEO last edited by

                          Raviv

                          Just to make sure we're not assuming incorrectly, temporarily shut off the Yoast SEO plugin. This should be fine to do for just a few minutes. Do you still get the 403 errors? If so, then it is not the Yoast plugin but some other issue.

                          Also, do you get this error while logged out of WordPress? Trying doing it on your site in incognito mode in Chrome without logging in.

                          Let us know what happens with both of those tests!

                          -Dan

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                          • Indiatravelz
                            Indiatravelz @EdsonGroupMedia last edited by

                            Hi Ed,

                            Thanks for that! But I need now to find out how to fix those broken links

                            Cheers,

                            Raviv

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                            • EdsonGroupMedia
                              EdsonGroupMedia last edited by

                              Hi Raviv,

                              I used this Worpress plugin to fix my broken links, hope it helps http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/

                              Regards

                              Ed

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