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Humanities Commons WordPress
https://hcommons.org
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Update AWS firewall to allow anonymous IPs and fix the occasional 403 Forbidden error #898

Closed tzouris closed 5 months ago

tzouris commented 5 months ago

Knowledge Commons returned a 403 Forbidden when visited via VPNs and proxies. The AWS-managed rule AWS-AWSManagedRulesAnonymousIpList was the reason. The rule has been kept on the list of enabled rules, but its actions were overwritten to allow traffic.

This is an important step since many people rely on VPNs to hide their online identity. Access to Knowledge Commons should be allows to anyone looking for scientific knowledge, no matter what the official rules are in their country of residence.