Diagnosing 403 Forbidden Errors

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: What is a 403 Error? Firewall Rules 403 on an Image or File Caching and Nonces File Permissions CDN Issues Corrupt/Misconfigured .htaccess file Broken/Missing Plugins Custom Nginx Config Rules Introduction: What is a 403 Forbidden Error? The 403 Forbidden error occurs when a request is made the server cannot allow. This […]

How to Fix the “Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser” Error

The following error sometimes presents itself when trying to login to the subsite of a WordPress multisite: “ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.” This may occur even if your browser does in fact have cookies enabled and it can happen when WordPress is serving […]

Diagnosing Redirect Issues

Introduction Undesired redirects can be frustrating to deal with. Fortunately, narrowing down the root cause of these issues can usually be done quickly when you know what to check. This article will walk you through the checks for 3 different scenarios: Your website is redirecting to different site or an internal page, or has a […]

Troubleshooting: Custom Server Won’t Provision and is Stuck at 10%

Introduction  Having a server fail to provision can be frustrating, but hopefully the tips in this article will help you get yours up and running. Before anything else, these are generally when we see servers fail on the rare occasions that they do: 10% – We couldn’t connect to the server 25% – Nginx install […]

Fix: DigitalOcean Disk Space Failed to Resize Automatically

In almost all cases, DigitalOcean will automatically take of everything when you resize your servers. On reboot, the disk is resized and Monit automatically picks up these changes. Nothing is required from you. One of the great things about them is that everything just works. They’ve done a great job of making everything seamless when you […]