After my site got attacked with many 403s I decided I would find out most of the ways to fix them and put them into a tutorial

NOTE: Although people have showed how to fix 403s, they only displayed the most common ones. I will show you all of the ones that I found on my site.

1. Be Patient. Most of the time it is just a glitch in the system. Give it a few hours for the administrators to fix it.

2. Change your file permissions. Sometimes, the file's permission is messing with your connection to the page. Just change it to 777 or 644 (you can do this by click 'permissions' on the file in file manager)

3. Check your code. A mistake in your code can also mess up the connection to the page. Get some people in Server Side Scripting to help you check it if you don't understand the coding language.

4: From Ed: If there's no index.html/index.php/index.htm file a 403 will occur when you try to view the file.

That's all!

I know this tutorial isn't that great, but it is my first one. If I missed anything on here that causes 403s just tell me and I will edit it in.

HTTP 403 Error is when data stream sent by the client to the web server was correct; however, access to the source identified by the URL is forbidden (generally due to permission errors). This is often solved by either CHMOD'ing the file to a readable value (changing permission) or making sure that you don't have "No Directory Browsing" enabled (if you do, this can be solved by direct linking to a file). Other solutions can be found here.

If there's no index.html/index.php/index.htm file a 403 will occur when you try to view the file.