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Justin Vanderwende
Justin Vanderwende
3,134 Points

Cannot access webhostingforstudents.com

Hi, for some reason I cannot access webhostingforstudents.com. The message that I get is this:

403 - Forbidden Error You are not allowed to access this address. If the error persists, please contact the website webmaster. If you are the webmaster of this site please log in to Cpanel and check the Error Logs. You will find the exact reason for this error there.

Common reasons for this error are:

Incorrect file/directory permissions: Below 644. In order files to be read by the webserver, their permissions have to be equal or above 644. You can update file permissions with a FTP client or through cPanel's File Manager.

Restrictive Apache directives inside .htaccess file. There are two Apache directives which can cause this error - 'Deny from' and 'Options -Indexes'.

If anyone can help me with this I'd greatly appreciate it!

-Justin

1 Answer

I suggest you contact their support. From my research I figured out this contact info...I don't know if it works but you can try:

support@webhostingforstudents.com

PS. I also see the same notice when I try to visit that page.

Justin Vanderwende
Justin Vanderwende
3,134 Points

Thank you for your help Gloria! Yeah I just checked the site again to see if maybe they were just having some trouble yesterday, and I'm now able to access it. Thanks again!