# 403 Forbidden (nginx) error - (reverse proxy)
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/403-forbidden-nginx-error-reverse-proxy/1096
**Category:** Application Support
**Created:** [November 5, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/403-forbidden-nginx-error-reverse-proxy/1096 "2021-11-05T14:10:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@lucas7c](https://community.kinsta.com/u/lucas7c)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/403-forbidden-nginx-error-reverse-proxy/1096/1 "2021-11-05T14:10:34Z")
Hi,
I had installed devkinsta well. Then I imported the website from kinsta.
But I get a 403 Forbidden error, can not open the website and the wpadmin page.
My website is a reverse proxy website. I want to know if this reverse proxy is related? What do I need to do? Thank you
The location of the real root directory of my local file:
Users\example\DevKinsta\public\examplecn\cn\wp-admin
devkinsta site host:
://examplecn.local/
thanks
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/403-forbidden-nginx-error-reverse-proxy/1096/2 "2021-11-05T14:44:24Z")
Hi @lucas7c ! I’m happy to help. Yeah, due to it being a reverse proxy, unfortunately it’ll require a few additional configurations here for it to work. This may not be ideal as any edits made the nginx configuration will reset on any restarts/shutdowns/upgrades thus having to make those configurations again. [There is a feature request here for the ability to edit nginx easily](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ability-to-upload-custom-nginx-rules/378).
If you’re interested in editing nginx, [we have a post here that might help with that](https://community.kinsta.com/t/are-nginx-rules-transferred-to-and-from-devkinsta/366/2). Essentially you’ll need to change the root directory on nginx to load from the reverse proxy sub-directory. Additionally, you’ll need to add `rewrite ^/subsite-will-load-here/(.*)$ /$1 last;` within nginx to ensure it loads from the sub-directory.
Let me know if you have any questions along the way on setting this up.
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### Author:  [@lucas7c](https://community.kinsta.com/u/lucas7c)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/403-forbidden-nginx-error-reverse-proxy/1096/3 "2021-11-05T17:05:05Z")
Thank you very much for your reply, I will try it tomorrow. Thank you.