# Users can't sign in due to 403 error

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cant-sign-in-due-to-403-error/56449>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cant-sign-in-due-to-403-error/56449 "2017-01-27T11:34:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cant-sign-in-due-to-403-error/56449/3 "2017-01-27T20:34:36Z")

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This is usually because you are doing an internal proxy but not setting the https forwarding headers in your proxy.

(If your site is https)

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