After a few minutes, when ATI indicated 1% progress, the external drive light would stop flickering (no activity), the internal drive light would go solid and, after 15-30 seconds the error message would appear. As before, initially the flickering lights on the internal and external drives were flickering indicating disk activity (reading from the former and writing to the latter). I would have copied the text but when completed the Command window closed. I ran chkdsk and, even though it indicated it was running in 'read only mode' since I'd not specified the 'f' parameter, I noted near the end of the process several lines of 'removing index for file.', or something similar. This is a Cloudflare Community Tip, to review other tips, click here.Was finally able to successfully make a back up and wanted to pass along what I tried and saw in case it was of help to others. We really appreciate comments like: “What are the three things to always try”, or “Do this first” or “In my experience”.
This Community Tip will remain open for input from Community experts and those familiar with this issue. Please indicate what troubleshooting steps you’ve tried in order to help us help you. When you post on the Community make sure to include as much of this information as possible: the specific error message you are seeing, the URLs this is happening on, screen shot of the error, and the steps to reproduce the error. This community of other Cloudflare users may be able to assist you, login to Cloudflare and post your question to the Community. Make sure that Cloudflare’s IPs aren’t blocked.Ĭloudflare will serve 403 responses if the request violated either a default WAF rule enabled for all orange-clouded Cloudflare domains or a WAF rule enabled for that particular zone.Ĭloudflare will also serve a 403 Forbidden response for SSL connections to subdomains that aren’t covered by any Cloudflare or uploaded SSL certificate. htaccess rules, Mod_security rules, or IP Deny rules. If you’re seeing a black & white 403 Forbidden error page without Cloudflare branding, this is always returned directly from the origin web server, not Cloudflare, and is generally related to permission rules on your server, either a permission rule you have set or an error in the. Pause Cloudflare until the issue is resolved, see How do I temporarily pause Cloudflare?. Check the origin server configuration for a country block. You’re only seeing the error from certain countries. Your DNS cache may be pointing to the origin server. Try using a different browser, or use a private/incognito window.
You recently upgraded from a Free account to a Pro subscription the 403 error is a temporary error related to an issue while replacing the certificate from the Free account with a certificate for the Pro account. If the Quick Fix Ideas here don’t help, the best next step would be to generate a HAR file and send this to your hosting provider to identify what potential misconfiguration could be in place. When this happens, in your browser you’ll see the message “Error 403: Forbidden”. With the exception of requests that violate WAF rules or subdomains that are not covered by a certificate, Cloudflare does not generate any 4xx errors, so this would indicate something is not configured correctly with your hosting provider or your client is sending something incorrect.
Try the suggestions in this Community Tip to help you fix Error 403 Forbidden.Ī 403 Forbidden Error is a client side error that means that the client sent something the origin was unable to process.