403 error navigating too quickly

PDW

• July 15, 2023 12:02

I am running mostly Joomla websites, for some reason my server has been giving me problems when navigating too quckly. Any way to stop this from happening. This occurs mostly in the back end of the website administrator area (sometimes in the front end as well). If I navigate too quickly, say go to system, and click on templates and then back to system right after another, I get access forbidden page 403. I have to then wait about 30 seconds or so before I can hit refresh and have the page displayed, so I can navigate again. It is persistent on all navigation. I am not running anything special for extensions, this happens to just out-of-the-box sites too. Thoughts or ideas? This occurs using PHP 8, 8.1 etc... havent really tried going lower than that. I have even tried disabling CSF and LFD etc... no change. Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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  xpy-xpy

  • July 15, 2023 20:15

  Have you tried checking ModSecurity logs?

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  quietFinn

  • July 16, 2023 04:38

  @PDW you not running CloudLinux are you?

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  cPanelWilliam

  • July 18, 2023 20:28

  Hi! Are you using mod_evasive? If you are unsure, you can check which Apache modules are in use with httpd -M
  mod_evasive can cause 403 errors like the ones you described when it blocks a user from accessing the site. If that is the case, you can either disable mod_evasive or tune it to prevent your IP from being blocked:

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  PDW

  • July 24, 2023 14:24

  Thanks, the problem did end up being the Mod_Evasive

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 24, 2023 19:18

  I'm glad that's what it was!

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