HTTP error! status: 403

Resolved rely28
(@rely28)

4 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi,

When accessing my main page on my blog, I have a black box appearing stating there is an error 403
https://i.postimg.cc/tRS2pQGN/02-12-2025-13-33-23.jpg

When checking what create this error, I got this :
```
Request URL

https://thailande-et-asie.com/wp-json/meow-lightbox/v1/regenerate_mwl_data

Request Method

POST

Status Code

403 Forbidden

Remote Address

[2a02:4780:4e:9f7:5cc6:b44f:8364:1f39]:443

Referrer Policy

strict-origin-when-cross-origin
```
Any idea what’s wrong ?
Thanks

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Plugin Support Val Meow
(@valwa)

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hey @rely28! 👋

This 403 means you are not authorized to make a request.

The lightbox makes a request to get the data from your page to check which media data it should get from other plugins that might load media dynamically. You can stop that by going to the advanced settings and setting the Rendering Delay (ms) to 0, which will disable that entirely.

If you want to use this feature, you will need to be able to send those requests. To do this, simply make sure your WordPress REST API wp-json endpoint is reachable, and if this is not the case your hosting service can fix that for you.

Hope this helps!

Thread Starter rely28
(@rely28)

4 months, 1 week ago

Thanks for th insight, though, it seems to work back normally so far despite not changing anything, I guess the latest update did the trick.

Thanks !
bluisier
(@bluisier)

4 months, 1 week ago
Hey I’m opening this thread again as I also have the same issue as @rely28

As far as I know my WordPress REST API wp-json endpoint is reachable but I still get a 403 on meow-lightbox/v1/regenerate_mwl_data

Interestingly, if I clear the whole cloudflare cache it works again as expected but the error comes back after a day or so.

Any idea of what could be wrong?

Note: setting the Rendering Delay (ms) to 0 doesn’t work in my cas as all the images that are below the fold are lazy loaded

Note 2: I had to deactivate the lightbox plugin for now
- This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by bluisier.
Thread Starter rely28
(@rely28)

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Hi,

I have to open it back since the problem is back… I’ve changed some settings on my lazy loading settings so it seems to be related, but as @hartl said, setting the Rendering Delay at 0 is not a convenient long term solution…