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Why am I getting a 403 error when I go to my website?A 403 error message on your site means that the webserver is pointing to a folder and there is no file or home page (listed below) and as such the webserver does not know what to do and returns this status. The server looks in the folder for the first page to display when the domain name is entered and if this exists will then show the site. Here are the accepted file names and their priorities on Linux Shared Hosting Packages: index.html home.html index.htm welcome.html default.htm index.php3 index.shtml home.shtml index.cgi home.cgi home.wml index.wml index.php4 home.php4 Here are the accepted file names and their priorities on Microsoft Shared Hosting Packages: default.aspx default.asp default.htm default.html home.htm home.asp home.aspx home.html index.asp index.htm index.html index.aspx If you already have one of these files, please note that file names are case-sensitive and a common error is to have "Index", which will cause this error. For Linux Hosting Packages: If you do not want a site on this page and would like a directory listing shown please see the FAQ: How to allow visitors to view the files in website.(directory or file listing) For Microsoft Hosting packages: Please contact support to have this feature turned On/Off |
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