Redirections stopped working and throw 403 error

[rhw2008]

Hello, I'm getting this error

HTTP 403 forbidden - The request was valid, but the server is refusing action. The user might not have the necessary permissions for a resource, or may need an account of some sort

thanks

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[johngodley]

Getting that where?

Redirections don't suddenly stop working, so something must have happened elsewhere to cause this to happen.

[rhw2008]

Hello John,

Thanks so much. I can’t pinpoint the exact time when this happened.

Actually, I found out when I received a warning from an SEO software that I have a duplicate pages. Normally, there was already a redirection for such a page but it wasn’t working.

I have disabled cache plugin, wordfence and many other plugins but did not correct the problem.

I cannot figure out what is the cause. The problem is that when I go to the site and click on some redirects they seem to work but with crawlers they aren’t working. Also, when I use the redirect tester that is included with the plugin it show that there is a 403 error

Please try this one

https://www.webblog.tophebergeur.com/vers/xsplit

you can use https://httpstatus.io/ to get more info regarding this redirection

thanks so much

Getting that where?

Redirections don't suddenly stop working, so something must have happened elsewhere to cause this to happen.

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[johngodley]

The 403 is caused by something on your site, probably some kind of security setting.

https://www.webblog.tophebergeur.com/vers/xsplit is redirecting fine.

[rhw2008]

Thank you so much for the follow up.

Should I ignore this error since the redirections are working fine ?

Do you think that it was related to the settings that you’ve suggested me, before, to add in the htaccess .

Thanks

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The 403 is caused by something on your site, probably some kind of security setting.

https://www.webblog.tophebergeur.com/vers/xsplit is redirecting fine.

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[johngodley]

If you are using a URL checker and it is returning 403, but the redirect otherwise works fine it means that your site is blocking the URL checker.

[johngodley]

Closing for now, please reopen with more information.