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Hi,

Been slowly getting my arms around a mystery, and am looking for a little clearer understanding. Searched the forums, read the search related hits in the docs, searched the extension code, etc...

I am trying to figure out what is generating the 403 Forbidden result page when deliberately trying to access a restricted directory.

I found one semi-related forum post, but still not clear enough to resolve mystery.

I had copies of a few common .shtml error pages that reside on the server sent to me, and then compared the specific error page code to the page output, and they don't match.

Next suspect would be ATP, but this does not seem to be an obvious match either by searching the extension code.

So this leads to my question:

Does ATP modify the default server error pages?

Thanks in advance for the guidance.

Hi,

Thanks for the help, but this remains a mystery. The only htaccess prior to ATP was the !J default and there were no ErrorDocument directives in that .txt file.

Maybe another way to approach this is from a controlled experiment. Prior to installing ATP, how would one purposely generate a 403 error with a fresh !J install?

Thanks again for the guidance.

You may also want to check in your cPanel custom error page area and determine if there was anything set there. If you had done anything through there, it usually writes it to the .htaccess for your root site. There could have been directives in there or they might do it elsewhere. If they don't exist there, then it may remain a mystery.

Generating a 403 error is difficult usually. The best way to generate it is to take Joomla out of the picture altogether. i think you can password protect a directory and then access it without the correct username / password and it will gen a 403 error. If the same page you were seeing previously comes up, then it is an Apache config problem and not Joomla or Admin Tools in the picture at all! That's the best place to start first.

Then, if the error is not there, go with Joomla again. I don't think Joomla throws 403 errors easily from within Joomla itself. Just google "Joomla generate 403 error" and you might find some suggestions of how people did it.

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