Apple.com Down With Access Denied Message
The official Apple website – Apple.com – is now down due to unknown reasons.
We first spotted this when we received a tweet to check the Apple.com website as it was showing this error message:
“Access Denied You don’t have permission to access “http://www.apple.com/” on this server.”
And now, it is confirmed. Here’s what you get when you go to Apple.com website:
Tweet:
Wow access denied on http://t.co/8lpbHmEtm1 pic.twitter.com/0P61ySWHaJ
— Rob Conery (@robconery) September 12, 2015
http://t.co/uMcQ28LilZ website is down folks! It shows "Access Denied." Don't worry – you are not alone!
— iOS 9 Updates / News (@ios9apple) September 12, 2015
Looks like http://t.co/vEDONCv0J3 is down globally. “Access denied”…. Someone is gonna get fired today :
— Maxim Filimonov (@TPAKTOP) September 12, 2015
Just denied access to http://t.co/rfcqn4MkOs even though I'm on a Macbook 11" Air. Hmmm pic.twitter.com/x2rVkB3W92
— bigheadtaco (@bigheadtaco) September 12, 2015
Update 12th September, 2015: Apple.com website is now back up and running without any problems:
And http://t.co/uMcQ28LilZ website is BACK UP and running. No more Access Denied message! 🙂
— iOS 9 Updates / News (@ios9apple) September 12, 2015
On Hacker News, it was posted that the server outage was caused due to Akamai’s CDN. In any case, the total downtime was 2 hours but Apple was quick to fix it.