On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 2:02:31 PM UTC-7, Erick R. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having a similar problem with my admin page of my domain at 
> https://www.positivethoughtsdaily.com/admin. I initially accessed my 
> admin console and failed too many password attempts. Then I began seeing a 
> "Forbidden 403" page instead of the admin password entry page. I typically 
> access my admin page via the web2py interface through port 80. Here is what 
> I have tried so far:
>
>    1. I contacted PythonAnywhere, my hosting service, and they provided 
>    me with code to reset my admin password 
>    <https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/Web2pyAdminPassword/>. I did 
>    this.
>    2. I removed and reinstalled web2py and updated to the latest version 
>    as Howard did, but the "403 Forbidden" page is still there.
>    3. It has now been two days since I was initially locked out, so it 
>    appears that waiting is not working either.
>
> Any suggestions to try next? Apologies if I am missing something simple 
> here.
>
> Thanks,
> Erick
>
>

Look for hosts.deny in the admin app .... 
applications/admin/private/hosts.deny

/dps
 

> On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 11:08:07 AM UTC-5, Arthur Gilbert wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for reply Massimo and especial thanks for making all this 
>> available; I like it much better than Rails.  
>>
>> I don't think failed logins was the problem.  I have now cured it by 
>> removing and re-installing web2py (after saving all the copies of my 
>> working though your lectures).
>>
>> ------------------
>> Best Wishes,
>> Howard
>>
>> "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the 
>> newspaper, you're mis-informed. - Mark Twain"
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> You normally get that is you fail too many logins. It resets itself 
>>> after 15 minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, 21 April 2017 10:12:52 UTC-5, Arthur Gilbert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just started web2py.  Going thro' Massimo di Pierro's 5 lectures on you 
>>>> tube.  Making good progress, excited about the system and everything 
>>>> working well.  BUT, when I went back to it, today, I clicked on Admin (of 
>>>> the welcome page) I got a long delay and then "403 FORBIDDEN". The page is 
>>>> showing "http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/index"; as it should. I am 
>>>> not aware of changing anything on my system, I am using xubuntu and 
>>>> Firefox. Web2py version 2.14.6-stable+timestamp.2016.05.10.00.21.47.
>>>>
>>>> Please help, 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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