Schedule Posts Not Working Anymore - Critical Error

Developer help Self-hosting
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Today, I’ve noticed that my Scheduled Posts have stopped working.

The scheduled posts even say “Scheduled to post 7 minutes ago to All Subscribers”.

I just checked the logs and this is the error

NAME: InternalServerError
MESSAGE: The server has encountered an error.

level: critical

HTTPError: Response code 403 (Forbidden)
    at /var/www/ghost/versions/5.38.0/core/server/adapters/scheduling/SchedulingDefault.js:319:23
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/var/www/ghost/versions/5.38.0/node_modules/@tryghost/request/node_modules/got/source/as-promise.js:74:19)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

Could Cloudflare be the cause?

I’ve recently added some new WAF settings to help prevent a lot of bots hitting my site. I’m going to start testing here, just in case.

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How is it going? Did turning off the new WAF settings help?

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Got it sorted!

It was CF. Earlier that week I was trying to optimize the Bot tools. There was an option to Configure Super Bot Fight Mode , specifically the Definitely automated option to block, allow, or challenge.

White-listing my blog IP sorted it out :sweat_smile:

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