403: Forbidden Message

Maaniac · July 6, 2018, 12:16pm

Not sure what happened but as of yesterday I am unable to access the web interface of Home Assistant. Everything works (automations, notifications, etc.) but when trying to connect I keep getting a 403: forbidden error. This message is only happening while on local wifi, if I disconnect from wifi I am able to access the frontend. Running Hass.IO with duckdns on version .73b5 on a pi 3.

Thought it might have been the below in http component but removing didn’t do anything.

ip_ban_enabled: True
login_attempts_threshold: 5

finity · July 7, 2018, 11:42pm

check your ip_bans.yaml file.

If you have ip_ban_enabled, then likely you’ve hit the limit of bad password attempts and it locked you out.

If your IP is in there just delete the entry completely & restart hass. then you should be OK.

cunninr2 · January 12, 2019, 10:53pm

Thank -you for this finity. was tearing my hair out on this before I found your post.

TobyG · January 5, 2023, 11:44pm

I’ve had a problem with this continuously happening when using the iOS app, and been trying to get to the bottom of it. Check out this issue on Github if you’d like to follow the discussion on there.