I'm building this site: http://lowcountryhomeschoolers.ninja using couch. I only have a superuser currently, and whenever I try to logout, I get a 403 error, and I'm not actually logged out.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks!

[trendoman]

I can take a look at the issue if you PM temporary creds+ftp.
Without seeing the cause, I would say something is with either htaccess, or access control in template, or config.php. Some advice is given here too (though maybe partly irrelevant) http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html

Also search on forum:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9295&p=19739&hilit=403#p19739
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9009&p=18444&hilit=403#p18444
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8257&p=14892&hilit=403#p14892
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7315&p=13992&hilit=403#p13992
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7749&p=12469&hilit=403#p12469
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6964&p=8941&hilit=403#p8941
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6927&p=8770&hilit=403#p8770


Also have you checked your apache access logs as well as error logs?

I'll PM you the login details.

I've checked the error logs, and there's nothing there.

I've tried deleting .htaccess, both in the main site and in the couch directory, and it hasn't made any difference.

I have a custom 403 error page (which actually isn't currently working...I THINK because it's being served from a sub-directory, but I'll have to figure that out). Without the custom page, it says the error is being thrown when trying to access couch/login.php

Thanks to trendoman and KK for y'alls help!!

It ended up being a server setting, according to host gator "Rule ID 1234234" needed to be whitelisted.

Basically passing "http" as a GET argument wasn't allowed and causing a 403 error. I contacted HG support with their live chat and it was fixed within 5 minutes.

[trendoman]

Cool!

[KK]

Thanks for the update, @Mako88.

In case it could help others, I'll explain the problem a bit more.
Following is what the logout link looks like. The 'redirect' parameter contains the return URL and that 'http' in it was freaking out the server (some kind of a security measure) -

http://www.yoursite.com/couch/login.php?act=logout&nonce=e132416e08d287aebe372a87ecb3198d&redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com%2Fcouch%2F

Out of curiosity, does Couch have to pass the http in the URL?