# 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:** ![Maakuth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maakuth/32/121254_2.png) [@Maakuth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maakuth)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-cant-sign-in-due-to-403-error/56449/6 "2017-01-27T21:05:59Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> This is usually because you are doing an internal proxy but not setting the https forwarding headers in your proxy.

Oh, indeed! This was fixed by adding to my Apache proxy configuration:

```plaintext
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"

```

Thanks a lot for help. Quite interesting that this only begun to happen in the 1.7 series.

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