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    You don't have permission to access / on this server

    When trying to access distrowatch.com I get the following error:

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.

    At first I thought it might be the website, but I could bring it up fine on a friend's Windows comp.

    I have seen threads on this error in the forums and don't understand a single thing they are talking about -- apache servers, files I don't have, permissions I can't even find, etc, etc. I've been using Linux for 6 years, Ubuntu for more than 4, but i feel like a real noob on this one. Please help.

    This seems to have happened just yesterday after an update that seemed pretty benign, just a few files, mostly mozilla related.

    Much gratitude for any advice to fix this.
    Last edited by Luxx; September 21st, 2011 at 09:12 PM. Reason: Error 403

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    Re: You don't have permission to access / on this server

    Quote Originally Posted by Luxx View Post
    When trying to access distrowatch.com I get the following error:

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.

    At first I thought it might be the website, but I could bring it up fine on a friend's Windows comp.

    I have seen threads on this error in the forums and don't understand a single thing they are talking about -- apache servers, files I don't have, permissions I can't even find, etc, etc. I've been using Linux for 6 years, Ubuntu for more than 4, but i feel like a real noob on this one. Please help.

    This seems to have happened just yesterday after an update that seemed pretty benign, just a few files, mostly mozilla related.

    Much gratitude for any advice to fix this.
    Works here so it maybe your ISP provider or have you blocked out some sites yourself?

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    Re: You don't have permission to access / on this server

    hidemyass.com

    can you get there through a proxy?

    If so its probably your global IP thats blocked for whatever reason.

    Sounds like the rejection is coming from the web server side.

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    Re: You don't have permission to access / on this server

    Um... the other computer is the main comp on the network. I'm actually connecting to the internet through this other computer anyway, so wouldn't it be getting the same rejection?

    I can bring up the website on his comp with no 403 errors. And tthe fact that it's looking for access to root (/) seems very Linux specific, doesn't it?

    The ISP is obviously not involved and I haven't blocked any websites myself.

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    Re: You don't have permission to access / on this server

    I get the same error message on all DistroWatch pages:

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.


    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access /dwres.php on this server.

    etc.

    Seems to be same issue with proxy:

    The requested resource could not be loaded.


    Only this website, only the one Ubuntu computer on the network, only since updating packages. Still unresolved.
    Last edited by Luxx; November 7th, 2011 at 07:10 AM.

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