I have noticed that whenever trying to download files from the server using wget on Debian 9 Stretch, I always seem to get a 403 forbidden issue, despite being able to download the file just fine from a graphical browser.
Can this be fixed, and if so, how? Also, is there a way to only allow certain types of files to be downloaded?
In short, it boils down to the fact that we provide a website hosting service, not a file sharing service. That means that our hosting is intended to be used to host content to be viewed as web pages in a browser, not to provide files for download. There are specialized file sharing services which work far better for that purpose.