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Hi @romeing

The “403 forbidden” status means that the site/server that is “contacted” rejects request.

Where/when are you getting it exactly? I mean: is this happening on some of the links that are being checked? If yes – are those links pointing to your site or to some other/external sites (if yes, can you share some examples)?

Kind regards,
Adam

Yes it’s happening on some of the links that are being checked. They point to external sites, you can see an example here: https://www.romeing.it/it/viaggio-sui-binari-ditalia-da-bologna-a-roma/

Hi @romeing,

Are you using the Cloud or Local configuration in the Broken Link Checker plugin settings?

I’m afraid, the URL shared doesn’t help in determining whether it is the site URL or the URL to the external site that was shared.

However, I suppose the URL shared is an external site URL? I do get 403 error when I crawl such the given URL.

The 403 error would mean that the page cannot be accessed by BLC due to an authorization error. This could occur due to Firewall, server configuration etc

Unfortunately, if the websites have firewalls or settings to block crawling the links then I’m afraid there isn’t much that could be done in such instances.

Manually marking any such 403 error as Ignore or dismiss would be the way ahead in such instances since these are external sites.

If there are 403 error picked for URLs for external sites which is hosted by you then you can follow these instructions in such cases:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#troubleshooting-notes

Kind Regards,

Nithin

Hi @romeing

We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved. If you have any additional questions or require further help, please let us know!

Kind Regards,
Kris