Latics4Ever Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 If you are unfortunate enough to have a crap Internet Provider (AOL) such as myself, then you may find you have difficulty accessing this site! Whenever I try opening the link for here, I get the following FORBIDDEN message: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.owtb.co.uk Port 80" The only way around it is to open Internet Explorer once AOL is running, but it is bloody annoying that it won't allow the site to run through AOL! *Rant Over!* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Yes, Sniper99 brought it to my attention last night. There is a work around. A brief explanation first, I think (and I have to stress think there, because I'm only just looking into this problem - I've never come across it before) that the AOL browser routes you through a proxy server thus giving the internet the impression that you are online from somewhere your not, reporting a different IP number. If I'm teaching you how to suck eggs I'm sorry. When you go online with a normal browser it does not take you through the proxies and actually reports the true IP address. Hence you can get here with your true IP address and not with your "fake" one, because my server thinks you've got something to hide (a hacker uses multiple proxies to confuse their origins) so to speak. Let me find the article I was reading yesterday and I'll post it up, for you - I cannot do anything my end - you'll have to do it yourself because the settings will have to be manipulated on your machine not on my server. Cheers Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 PS. Snipers IP was reporting to me that he was in Amsterdam. I don't think he lives in Amsterdam - does he? I dunno! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 What version of AOL are you running? Are you using AOL OpenRide? I'd recommend installing the latest version with all the updates and patches. AOL is one sorry piece of kit, it really is. Also check out this >>> LINK <<< it saves me from explaining it. As I said to Sniper99 yesterday, it looks daunting but it really isn't - honestly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardy Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Or as an easier option you could just download Firefox, and instead of having to log onto AOhell for the interweb, just click direct to Firefox. Im on BT and i dont log in at all, due to being a lazy :censored:, but thats another story... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Yes! Or stop using AOL completely. That's the best idea yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky_Latic Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 PS. Snipers IP was reporting to me that he was in Amsterdam. I don't think he lives in Amsterdam - does he? I dunno! Not unless he's moved from Wardle in the past month ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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