# Ruby Gems and the Mysterious 403 Error **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gems-and-the-mysterious-403-error/98694 "2006-07-17T16:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derek\_Perrault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Derek\_Perrault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Derek_Perrault)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gems-and-the-mysterious-403-error/98694/1 "2006-07-17T16:56:02Z")
Hello all. When I attempt to install any remote gem, I get the following error: ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError) 403 Forbidden I first noticed this a couple weeks ago. This is a Windows XP system. I am going through a proxy server. I can list and search through the remote gems. The error only occurs when I attempt to install a gem. Thank you in advance for your help. Derek ---
**Author:** ![Derek\_Perrault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Derek\_Perrault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Derek_Perrault)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gems-and-the-mysterious-403-error/98694/2 "2006-07-17T17:22:21Z")
Le 17 juil. 06 à 16:53, Derek Perrault a écrit : > ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError) > 403 Forbidden > > I first noticed this a couple weeks ago. > > This is a Windows XP system. > I am going through a proxy server. > I can list and search through the remote gems. The error only > occurs when I > attempt to install a gem. i didn’t have exactly the same prob nor make use of win\* however, in my case removing the gems cache did the trick. it is located in GEM\_HOME : ~%\> ls $GEM\_HOME cache doc gems source\_cache specifications ~%\> ls $GEM\_HOME/cache cmdparse-2.0.2.gem hope that’s help 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Derek\_Perrault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Derek\_Perrault](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Derek_Perrault)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-gems-and-the-mysterious-403-error/98694/3 "2006-07-17T20:30:23Z")
Hmm… no such luck. Thank you for the suggestion, though.