title: Joomla 403 Forbidden error
body: <p>One of my website developed using joomla..actually it was an old version( Version 1.5).it was running successfully but now its showing 403 Forbidden error.</p>
  
  <p>My htaccess file look like these</p>
  
  <pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks
  
  RewriteEngine On
  
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
  # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
  # Block out any script that includes a &lt;script&gt; tag in URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&lt;|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(&gt;|%3E) [NC,OR]
  # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
  # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
  # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
  RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
  
  
  RewriteBase /
  
  
  
  RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|raw))$ [NC]
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  
  RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
  </code></pre>