I have two home computers which both use the same router and Microsoft Edge as the web browser.
I also use Dropbox to store files and both computers have no problem accessing those.
For years I have played railway games (like 1835 and 1856) on a website run by a friend. The players send in orders and every few weeks a game adjudication appears.
Now one computer refuses to allow access saying:
403 forbidden
openresty
The other carries on serenely showing me the site.
My friend is baffled, because he hasn’t made any changes to the way he runs the site.
I would first check the firewall on the computer that’s denying access. It could be blocking the site for whatever reason and you can adjust settings to allow it as a safe site.
Well that is an error from the web site. Openresty is the overarching program that hosts the site. A 403 says that the site thinks you have asked it to access something it cannot provide. a 404 is saying it can’t find it, 403 says you can’t have it.
Now, assuming the site is written in a manner that lives up to the REST part of the Openresty name - basically that it implements the REST paradigm, the state for an ongoing interaction lives in your browser, and not the site. (This is a useful paradigm - it makes a lot of problems much easier in building an interactive Web experience.) But the clue is that every access to the site contains in the URL an encoding of what the browser things you are up to. The Web site does not keep track of you from click to click.
So the answer is probably that something has changed under the feet of your errant browser. The usual mantra applies. clear out the cache and clear cookies etc. This may get your browser back to a state where it has no expectations about what is going on and it can proceed anew without error.
Now that I’m more fully awake, a simpler solution comes to mind and checking the URL you provided in all likelihood confirms it.
The site URL uses: http:// It should use https. The ‘s’ indicates secure site. I don’t know about Edge browser because I don’t use it but the couple browsers I have installed will block non secure sites by default, unless you change the default.
Have a look in your Edge browser settings, probably under a ‘Privacy’ or ‘Security’ heading somewhere you may likely find a setting for https.
There you should find an option to allow http sites.
To be fair, not really a MS Edge problem. You could have run into the same issue with most browsers, depending on your settings.
It’s really the web site owners problem. They should update from http to https.
As far as I know, most hosting companies have been doing this for customers as part of the service they provide. Obviously not so in your instance.
Glad you got it sorted!
Most browsers will display a warning page telling you the website is not secure (http only) and there is some huge risk in using an unencrypted site. And most browsers will have some ‘advanced’ button where you may proceed at your own risk. As the OP didn’t write about such a page I reckon it can be configured to just throw a 403 and call it a day.
Since SSL certificates are free (there are expensive ones that banks & such use) the website admin can easily get one and set their server to automatically redirect those who might type in http to the https.