Actually this is caused by Drupal's .htaccess file:

# Block access to "hidden" directories whose names begin with a period. This
# includes directories used by version control systems such as Subversion or
# Git to store control files. Files whose names begin with a period, as well
# as the control files used by CVS, are protected by the FilesMatch directive
# above.
#
# NOTE: This only works when mod_rewrite is loaded. Without mod_rewrite, it is
# not possible to block access to entire directories from .htaccess, because
# <DirectoryMatch> is not allowed here.
#
# If you do not have mod_rewrite installed, you should remove these
# directories from your webroot or otherwise protect them from being
# downloaded.
RewriteRule "(^|/)\." - [F]

You can remove that rule from .htaccess if you like. I would just make sure you don't have any hidden directories, like .git.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net

On 12/12/2012 10:45 PM, Vaibhav Jain wrote:

You can check once on the permissions provided in hook_menu.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Austin Einter <austin.einter@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All
I have an auto complete text field , where user types and if corresponding entry is present in database, I show it to user using below code.

$matches = array();
if ($string)
{
      $result = db_select('resubmt_skill_ids')
        ->fields('skill_ids', array('name', 'id'))
        ->condition('name', db_like($string) . '%', 'LIKE')
        ->range(0, 10)
        ->execute();
      foreach ($result as $skill)
      {
          $matches[$skill->name] = check_plain($skill->name);
      }
}
drupal_json_output($matches);

Lets say one user wanted to type .net, as soon as user types .n I get below error.

An AJAX HTTP error occurred.
HTTP Result Code: 403
Debugging information follows.
Path: http://localhost/example.com/util/known/skillsets
StatusText: Forbidden
ResponseText:
403 Forbidden
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /util/known/skillsets/.n
on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

Can somebody help me why this error comes and how can I avoid it.

Thanks
Austin

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Vaibhav Jain