Bad Behaviour giving you “HTTP Error 403″ for your blog?
I have experienced the same problems few months back. Somehow or rather, I received this annoying “HTTP Error 403” every time I tried to log in to my admin site of my blog.
Upon investigating, the problem lies on our Malaysian internet provider, Tmnet Streamyx, as they provide random dynamic IPs that apparently was blacklisted.
The solution for this problem was just restarting the ADSL modem/router and create a new connection. Tmnet Streamyx will then assign your computer with a new IP that (hopefully) is not blacklisted.
Yesterday, the same problem happened. Every time I tried to log in to this blog, I received another “HTTP Error 403” message. I thought the problem lies with Tmnet again, but after restarting my router few times, I still got the same problem.
I could also not be able to access my blog from my desktop PC at home.
One of my colleague, said it may be because of Sabah IP address which are blocked due to some technical problems with Tmnet.
Anyway, this morning, I tried to log in again, and now I found out that there is another additional technical support information from Bad Behaviour:
This may also occur with old versions of Bad Behavior. If you do not see any blacklist providers listed below, and you are the site administrator, try updating to the latest version of Bad Behavior.
Aah… That might be the cause for my problem for merely 24 hours!
True enough, when you head to Bad Behaviour website, they confirmed that the problem are caused by their plugin:
Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently began sending false positives for any IP address queried, causing everyone using Bad Behavior to be blocked. This issue is fixed in Bad Behavior 2.0.11.
So, if you have the same problem, just head to Bad Behaviour, download their latest fixed plugin, and replace the folder in your Wordpress plugin folder.
I got my admin site of my blog almost immediately!
Cheers!