2 servers have a 403 error

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on 2 of my servers, one at routhost and one at netfirms, all the sites say 403 foribdden error.

i have no idea what caused this. what are the chances of them both doing this at the same time!?
 


turns out one of the sites on one of the servers got on digg and got 2000+ diiggs. i guess that maybe explains one of the servers... i dont see how it would get 403 forbidden though. and what about the other one?
 
when the server is undergoing the digg effect, MySQL is usually the first thing to go
the PHP engine is the next one to follow
apache rarely dies, but if it can't handle the requests then you get a timeout

when the PHP engine dies, Apache automatically blocks all requests to php files - hence the 403 forbidden error
since the file is blocked, it might be trying to display the directory listing
but since directory browsing is probably disabled on your server, the visitors get a 403

- just a guess
 
that makes sense cuz the 404 page works (its .html). i also cant go do anything thorugh ftp -- is that a result of the php failing too?

and whats still amazing me is that the other server failed at the same time... it had nothing diggworthy on it at all!
 
Lets start with what we know.

403 error - means the apache service / named service is at least running.

Now what kind of control over the server do you have? Is this a shared host server or do you have shell access?


If you have a shell access I would try the following

service mysqld restart
service ftpd restart
service apache restart
 
yea i have shell access, even though its shared.
the digg'd server just went back up, ill try that if it goes down again.

i guess ill just wait for the other server

+rep for u guys
 
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