"Forbidden: You don't have permission to access this server"

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 20:57:37 pm

"Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server"

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2 Server at http://www.stampboards.com Port 80
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Many members (me included!) got this message for a short period in ther past hourr.

Don't panic .. you were not banned .. it was a short pre-advised tech outage from our USA server.

Glen

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As I was pre-advised at short notice by our server owner -

Glen

We had hope to take a quick emergency maintenance window about 20 hours
ago, unfortunately we were not able to do so. We will be taking an
emergency outage at 12am CST 12/3/2009 for all but coldfusion based web
services. Coldfusion based outage will begin at 1am. Everything should
be back online by about 1:30am.

My apologies for the short notice.

David

Brummie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:00:34 pm

Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one to get this :roll:

MargoZ · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:09:28 pm

So did I...thought I must have upset Glen :lol:

lafaronau · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:10:33 pm

Frightened me.
Frank.

MargoZ · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:20:36 pm

Frank...fear no more. We're back in business...post away

lafaronau · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:35:04 pm

Thank you MargoZ.
I am at it as usual.
Frank.

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:35:31 pm

I only got a standard internet message saying that the server could not be found. I decided Glen had forgotten to pay the electricity bill and decided to wait. Then another email alert came in, so I knew he had found the dollar needed.

Brummie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 21:49:04 pm

Norvic, where is your mail box? I loved the mail box avatar, very distinguished....hmmm!

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 22:00:54 pm

I'm advertising! If I could put a link on the avatar I would. Just been unpacking next month's Classsic Album covers material. The Souvenir Sheet FDC turns out to be 323mm x 226mm: good for framing, difficult for stamp collectors! More details later on the appropriate thread.

Philanthropist · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 22:18:16 pm

MargoZ wrote:

So did I...thought I must have upset Glen :lol:

But Glen does not play golf, or does he? :roll:

MargoZ · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 22:30:27 pm

Not like Tiger Woods - we all knew he liked to play a round....

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 22:32:54 pm

lafaronau wrote:

Frightened me.

Frank.

Nah .... THIS is what frightens people ...

lafaronau · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 22:56:34 pm

Gotta go one way or another.

GUTTERS · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 23:19:55 pm

stampway · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 23:39:52 pm

I can see a 92F with flowers

,the website is very wellrunning for China location.

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 13:31:48 pm

MargoZ wrote:

Not like Tiger Woods - we all knew he liked to play a round....

Margo. one more pun like that and you will get the message. :mrgreen:

Norm

GUTTERS · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 15:00:53 pm

MargoZ wrote:

Not like Tiger Woods - we all knew he liked to play a round....

Or two it now seems

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 15:03:16 pm

MargoZ wrote:

Not like Tiger Woods - we all knew he liked to play a round....

Not if you don't have a car, you can't. :twisted:

Or a court date. :lol:

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 16:56:15 pm

jugoslavija_post wrote:

MargoZ wrote:

Not like Tiger Woods - we all knew he liked to play a round....

Not if you don't have a car, you can't. :twisted:

Or a court date. :lol:

Hey! You are too young to understand the implications of all this.

Norm

samkelly · **Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 17:43:59 pm

I recieved no message at all, havn't noticed a problem at all.

Sam

Kev · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 17:07:54 pm

I only found this by accident.

I was denied access to the "Study of New Zealand Penny Dominion" and appealed to 2 Mods - one responed stating no problem at his end. Still did not work for me for some time???

Cheers,, Kev.

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 20:45:18 pm

I lost another hour or two later yesterday evening (UTC). Australia was probably asleep, but it may have been another US problem.

Kev · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 21:16:38 pm

Kev wrote:

I only found this by accident.

I was denied access to the "Study of New Zealand Penny Dominion" and appealed to 2 Mods - one responed stating no problem at his end. Still did not work for me for some time???

[color=#0040FF][b]Cheers,, Kev.

At that time I was able to log in to other posts! So an isolated mystery!

Kev.[/b][/color]

Skippy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 09:56:09 am

Here's another one to add to the Error messages...
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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

User glenst00_phpbb3b already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections [1203]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
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Did anyone else get this error ?
It was around 9;30am 9/12/09.

"max user connections" does that mean there were 1203 people logged on ?? :shock: