403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource

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hello guys am having trouble from accessing images directly from link on the server, I checked the permissions for all the directories even the images it's self has 755 permission the webpage opens like charming but when I access the image directly like link directly it gives 403 error with no permissions to access the resource

here are some links for the images am trying to access :

https://strongestcard.com/img/offer_photo/022e9691c5ba65d23cbf27a53f83163e.jpg

https://www.strongestcard.com/img/offer_photo/12113835-2.jpg

https://www.strongestcard.com/img/offer_photo/16679.jpg

the website loads fine with no error and the images load fine on the pages but when i but the links giving me the error?

Note : htaccess file exist and working

Solution i had this line inside the htaccess file

RewriteRule .*.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

Changed The letter F to R in [F,NC] to [R,NC]

THANKS TO Quentin .

Quentin Quentin · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-21T11:00:56

Compare a simple request:

[ ~ ] ➜  curl -I https://strongestcard.com/img/offer_photo/022e9691c5ba65d23cbf27a53f83163e.jpg
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:59:29 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

With one which specifies a referer:

[ ~ ] ➜  curl -I -H "Referer: http://strongestcard.com"  https://strongestcard.com/img/offer_photo/022e9691c5ba65d23cbf27a53f83163e.jpg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:59:42 GMT
Server: Apache
Upgrade: h2,h2c
Connection: Upgrade
Last-Modified: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:07:49 GMT
ETag: "bec0fcd-2597f6-59c9123e289a1"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2463734
Content-Type: image/jpeg

The images appear to have hotlinking protection configured.

htaccess file exist and working

… and it is probably in there (although it could be in the main server configuration file)

403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource

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