403 Forbidden

[bladel]

Forum URL: www.thywwe.proboards.com/

Hello, I am the admin of the Forum (link attached), I haven't used it in a little while. Just lack of time, but I went to use a Google browser on my phone, I get a "unsafe" warning and when I advance to the link, it shows a 403 Forbidden? I tried my laptop aswell and it's still that. If my Forum is deleted due to lack of activity, that'd be really sad. I've had plans to get it active again and I've slowly coded it the way I wanted it over the last year or so. Could someone please help me! There's a lot of content on that Forum that I love to go back and look at from time to time. 

If it needs to be backed up to a certain date, that'd be totally fine also. I just would like it back if possible and if not that'd be very disappointing. 

UPDATE: I just did a Google search. The URL without the "www." worked fine. But can someone please explain to me by it's Forbidden with the full URL?
UPDATE #2: I went to sign into my Admin account and got this message. 
"Oops, there was an error!

Invalid request token / possible request forgery (error 4). If you received this message in error, please go back, refresh, and try again."

UPDATE #3: I went back to the main page, clicked login once again, and clicked my Admin account and it worked fine? I'm confused. I guess, I'm trying to figure out if my Forum needs to be updated somehow or if something is wrong that would give me any of these issues. Let me know!  

[Scott]

bladel -

The URL does not start with "www" - none of our URLs start with www.

[bladel]

Feb 27, 2023 15:21:53 GMT -8 Scott said:

bladel -

The URL does not start with "www" - none of our URLs start with www.

I swear I've used "http:www." with my Forum before and it worked fine. My search history automatically brings it up. Or am I just going crazy lol. Cause that'd be embarrassing haha

[Kami]

Feb 27, 2023 15:26:37 GMT -8 bladel said:

Feb 27, 2023 15:21:53 GMT -8 Scott said:

bladel -

The URL does not start with "www" - none of our URLs start with www.

I swear I've used "http:www." with my Forum before and it worked fine. My search history automatically brings it up. Or am I just going crazy lol. Cause that'd be embarrassing haha

Depending on how long the forum has been active (from what I can see, since 2012 at the latest) then the WWW was probably fine! WWW was more common in the earlier days of the internet, and it wasn't really until the push to make websites secure (httpS versus http) that this wound up making a conflict.

It's not that there's something that you're doing wrong for a while, but rather how websites serve webpages changed over the last few years and PB had a slow rollout of HTTPS (relatively) recently.

[bladel]

Feb 27, 2023 16:03:57 GMT -8 Kami said:

Feb 27, 2023 15:26:37 GMT -8 bladel said:

I swear I've used "http:www." with my Forum before and it worked fine. My search history automatically brings it up. Or am I just going crazy lol. Cause that'd be embarrassing haha

Depending on how long the forum has been active (from what I can see, since 2012 at the latest) then the WWW was probably fine! WWW was more common in the earlier days of the internet, and it wasn't really until the push to make websites secure (httpS versus http) that this wound up making a conflict.

It's not that there's something that you're doing wrong for a while, but rather how websites serve webpages changed over the last few years and PB had a slow rollout of HTTPS (relatively) recently.

Gotcha, that makes a little more sense! And I'm assuming the login error I got was just a normal error..

[Kami]

Feb 27, 2023 16:17:50 GMT -8 bladel said:

Feb 27, 2023 16:03:57 GMT -8 Kami said:

Depending on how long the forum has been active (from what I can see, since 2012 at the latest) then the WWW was probably fine! WWW was more common in the earlier days of the internet, and it wasn't really until the push to make websites secure (httpS versus http) that this wound up making a conflict.

It's not that there's something that you're doing wrong for a while, but rather how websites serve webpages changed over the last few years and PB had a slow rollout of HTTPS (relatively) recently.

Gotcha, that makes a little more sense! And I'm assuming the login error I got was just a normal error..

Yeah, it happens when your login cookie gets corrupted; if you had tried logging in on the www version and then again on the non-www version, that may have caused a conflict.

[bladel]

Feb 27, 2023 16:33:37 GMT -8 Kami said:

Feb 27, 2023 16:17:50 GMT -8 bladel said:

Gotcha, that makes a little more sense! And I'm assuming the login error I got was just a normal error..

Yeah, it happens when your login cookie gets corrupted; if you had tried logging in on the www version and then again on the non-www version, that may have caused a conflict.

That must've been it then, cause that's accurate! Thanks sm! 

[Kami]

Feb 27, 2023 17:13:31 GMT -8 bladel said:

Feb 27, 2023 16:33:37 GMT -8 Kami said:

Yeah, it happens when your login cookie gets corrupted; if you had tried logging in on the www version and then again on the non-www version, that may have caused a conflict.

That must've been it then, cause that's accurate! Thanks sm! 

Of course, any time!