Web page will not load but receiving email alerts

Hello,
updated to php 7.3.11 to get my application working again (i was affected by the auto-update which broke many others). When i run validate, it keeps complaining about a symbolic link which I keep deleting and recreating. The webpage presents a HTTP 403 error in Internet Explorer and in Chrome, displays php scripting

bash-4.2$ ./validate.php

Component Version
LibreNMS 1.70.1
DB Schema 2020_11_02_164331_add_powerstate_enum_to_vminfo (191)
PHP 7.3.11
Python 3.6.8
MySQL 5.5.64-MariaDB
RRDTool 1.4.8
SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.2
OpenSSL

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[OK] Composer Version: 2.0.8
[OK] Dependencies up-to-date.
[OK] Database connection successful
[OK] Database schema correct
[WARN] Global lnms shortcut not installed. lnms command must be run with full path
[FIX]:
sudo ln -s /nms/librenms/lnms /usr/local/bin/lnms
bash-4.2$ ./daily.sh
Fetching new release information OK
Updating to latest release OK
Updating Composer packages OK
Updating SQL-Schema OK
Updating submodules OK
Cleaning up DB OK
Fetching notifications OK
Caching PeeringDB data OK

GEThttp://hqlx-prd-nms-01.wescodist.com/
[HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden 284ms]

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

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<html><head>

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<title>403 Forbidden</title>

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</head><body>

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<h1>Forbidden</h1>

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<p>You don't have permission to access /

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on this server.</p>

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</body></html>

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