You are not leet enough to view this page.. forbidden @ vbcom

[Floris]

Since RC2 or RC3 I have been receiving Forbidden pages mostly when I click on a link in the email notification.

I had this with the beta versions on my own site but that disappeared after an upgrade. Now it happens on vBulletin.com and it is annoying.

Could be just my system, could be some blocking script on VO
But could also be the aliens.

Attached is a screenshot, pressing refresh loads the site perfectly.
btw, I load all new links in a new window, so also the ones from email notification emails.


Are there more users who have this on this web site?

[filburt1]

Several threads have already been posted about it in here, and the anti-DDoS script is believed to be at fault.

[Scott MacVicar]

We use an apache module called
mod_evasive to stop people from crashing apache and or trying to brute force the members area. It will give them a 403 error when its decided they've accessed too much. Have you had multiple browser windows open or hitting refresh alot?

I never seem to be able to recreate it, no matter how much I refresh.

Do you use a proxy maybe to access the site?

[Fusion]

I can't seem to recreate it either, and I'm piling it on right now.

[Floris]

Several threads have already been posted about it in here, and the anti-DDoS script is believed to be at fault.

I browsed around and used search, but I only found one post where a user said he had it, but there were no replies.

We use an apache module called
mod_evasive to stop people from crashing apache and or trying to brute force the members area. It will give them a 403 error when its decided they've accessed too much. Have you had multiple browser windows open or hitting refresh alot?

I never seem to be able to recreate it, no matter how much I refresh.

Do you use a proxy maybe to access the site?

ugh@ mod
But if that helps block an attack, then I don't mind clicking that F5 from time to time. I am here too much - maybe I trigger it
I always have at least 15 browsers open (From mozilla to internet explorer) and more then a few are on this site. That might explain it.

[filburt1]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90269&highlight=403%2A

Maybe the search engine doesn't search within quotes?

[Freddie Bingham]

I think it may be time to disable this for now since I also have this problem. If I have it then we need to do something about it!

[DWZ]

Maybe create a custom 403 page explaining why the page is blocked? Just something short, no pictures or anything to keep the page small as it is now...

[qxh]

I get this from time-to-time also.

[MasterMac]

We use an apache module called
mod_evasive to stop people from crashing apache and or trying to brute force the members area. It will give them a 403 error when its decided they've accessed too much. Have you had multiple browser windows open or hitting refresh alot?

I never seem to be able to recreate it, no matter how much I refresh.

Do you use a proxy maybe to access the site?

If you use a browser with tabbing abilities, try middle-clicking on a bunch of links to different forums and/or topics in order to load them all in an individual tab. They will try and load them all at the same time, which should reproduce the error page for you (since that's often what I do on various forums I go to... only for threads with new posts in them though ).

[Floris]

I think it may be time to disable this for now since I also have this problem. If I have it then we need to do something about it!

Correct freddie!

[Mephisteus]

I never had any problem with it Now I also don't have problems with the 1 post per 60 sec limit :P

[mafo0]

I got this once...

[sabret00the]

i've been getting the problem over as vBT and .org infrequently mind you so it aint a problem but it's from clicking on the forumhome to jump staright into a thread, for me atleast

[buro9]

If you use a browser with tabbing abilities, try middle-clicking on a bunch of links to different forums and/or topics in order to load them all in an individual tab. They will try and load them all at the same time, which should reproduce the error page for you (since that's often what I do on various forums I go to... only for threads with new posts in them though ).

That's exactly how I get the page (and I get it often)... tabbed browsing in Firefox.