Googlebot sees Error 403

[neiljay]

@kaushik810

Why proxy suddenly began causing problems for my site and how to fix it?

Hello there, Glad to know

@kaushik810

I disabled Cloudflare’s DNS proxy

This also means pausing CF for temporary purpose.

Your query is answered here:

Community Tip - Fixing Error 403 Forbidden

Error Try the suggestions in this Community Tip to help you fix Error 403 Forbidden. Background A 403 Forbidden Error is a client side error that means that the client sent something the origin was unable to process. With the exception of requests that violate WAF rules or subdomains that are not covered by a certificate, Cloudflare does not generate any 4xx errors, so this would indicate something is not configured correctly with your hosting provider or your client is sending something inco…