Odd RSS Issue - 403 denied

Discussion in 'Apache' started by sarahk, Mar 5, 2006.

  1. #1
    OK, it's not really RSS but the RSS feed works fine if you call it with

    http://www.top100vbulletin.com/aggregator.php?switch=1

    but falls over when included on a page at another site eg

    http://sarahk.pcpropertymanager.com/muck/q-control.php

    yet the same page is ok with an alternate feed (from DP)

    http://sarahk.pcpropertymanager.com/muck/q-control.php?switch=1

    So, it seems that it is the feed coming from top100vbulletin.com that's causing the problem but in cpanel I can't see any errors, permission issues etc.

    Any ideas on how to debug this one?
     
    sarahk, Mar 5, 2006 IP
  2. forkqueue

    forkqueue Guest

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    #2
    It's possible that your IP has been banned.

    An easy way to check is to try to request that page directly from your server. Assuming you've got SSH access and wget is installed, try doing

    wget http://www.top100vbulletin.com/aggregator.php?switch=1
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    and see if that works. If it does, your IP has been banned from requesting that feed. If it doesn't, the problem is somewhere else..
     
    forkqueue, Mar 5, 2006 IP
  3. noppid

    noppid gunnin' for the quota

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    I think it's her site fork.

    Sara, what is in q-control.php making the call?

    Never mind. I see the aggregator. I also can't get to the feed.
     
    noppid, Mar 6, 2006 IP
  4. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Aaah, looks like I have hotlink protection in place.

    I've disabled it but no difference. I guess the change may take a few minutes to filter through?
     
    sarahk, Mar 6, 2006 IP