https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/403-permission-denied-when-submitting-website-link Gravity Support Forums Topic: "403 Permission Denied" When submitting website link en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:48:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/403-permission-denied-when-submitting-website-link#post-134378 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:41:56 +0000 Chris Hajer 134378@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The issue is mod_security. Please contact your host to see about relaxing the rules to allow this normal submission through. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/403-permission-denied-when-submitting-website-link#post-128608 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:17:22 +0000 jgadsby 128608@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I should note that "User Submitted Posts" (the WP Plugin) allows people to enter web addresses (and works on my configuration) so I'm kind of scratching my head a little. Perhaps there's another method/custom bit of code that would allow the field to upload web addresses properly. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/403-permission-denied-when-submitting-website-link#post-128607 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:10:11 +0000 jgadsby 128607@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Here's what the domain log reveals:</p> <p><code>ModSecurity: [file &quot;/etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/10_asl_rules.conf&quot;] [line &quot;482&quot;] [id &quot;340162&quot;] [rev &quot;228&quot;] [msg &quot;Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Remote File Injection attempt in ARGS (AE)&quot;] [data &quot;http:/&quot;] [severity &quot;CRITICAL&quot;] Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Match of &quot;beginsWith http:/%{SERVER_NAME}/&quot; against &quot;MATCHED_VAR&quot; required.</code> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/403-permission-denied-when-submitting-website-link#post-128535 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:01:58 +0000 Chris Hajer 128535@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can you share a link to the page on your site where the form is embedded?</p> <p>This 403 error is likely coming from some configuration on your server. Can you check the error logs to see what was logged when the 403 code was returned? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/403-permission-denied-when-submitting-website-link#post-128530 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:46:52 +0000 jgadsby 128530@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi there,</p> <p>I've recently installed Gravity Forms and am setting up my first form. One of the fields is a custom post field called 'Website'. On the front-end, when I go to submit a website using this field, I get instantly directed to a 403 Permission Denied page with:</p> <pre><code>Forbidden You don&#39;t have permission to access /add/ on this server.</code></pre> <p>(/add/ being the page where the form is)</p> <p>I've narrowed down the problem to being the '/' character in the field (e.g. <a href="http://)" rel="nofollow">http://)</a>. How can I get around this? </p>