Why does viewing images on a hosting cause 403 access denied?

Question

Apache HTTP Server

When browsing the site normally, all images work (when used in CSS and HTML). But if you open the image directly in the browser, then a 403 response comes up. When checking for broken links by the deadlinkchecker.com service, dozens of 403 errors are opened, all of them due to attempts to download the image. Yandex says that you need to add a favicon, but it is there. It also fails to load the image.

How to decide? Deleting .htaccess didn't help, setting 644 permissions for files and 755 directories via FTP did the same. Apache server. Free hosting AwardSpace. The images are in the /picture folder.

Answer 1

The answer is a free hosting restriction (hotlinking protection), and you can only upload images by specifying a relative (local) path.

Answer 2

Judging by the description, you are blocking requests to images where there is either no referrer, or it differs from your domain.
It is difficult to give a more precise answer with the available information. If you have your own server, then look at the Apache config, if shared hosting, then study the settings in the control panel.