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I've noticed there are no notifications from EasyDiscuss since .htaccess file generated by AkeebaTools is blocking cron job tasks.

Logs:
[root@ data]# wget --max-redirect=10 'http://www.site.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&task=cron'
--2014-08-12 14:48:09-- http://www.site.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&task=cron
Recognizing rgw www.site.com... ##.##.40.73
Connecting to the www.site.com|##.##.40.73|:80... the connection is established.
HTTP request have sent, awaiting a response ... 403 Forbidden
2014-08-12 14:48:09 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

How to solve this problem?

It seems we need to allow performing this link:
site.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&task=cron

The .htaccess file would already allow

site.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&task=cron

because the file being executed is index.php, which is never blocked. You are on the right track, but that isn't the right piece of the puzzle. Please follow the instructions here: https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/athtaccessexceptions.html to find the file that is throwing the 403 error. Once you identify that, we can set an exception in .htaccess Maker.

According the information above we may see there is a query to index.php which is blocked by wget rule in .htaccess:
SetEnvIf user-agent "Wget" stayout=1

You can remove that Wget user-agent from the list of restricted user-agents in .htaccess Maker and regenerate your .htaccess file. Let's see if that fixes the problem.

The thing that bothers me is that no one has run into this problem with wget in the past months since the user-agent list was expended. We use wget for front end backups all the time, I think someone would have run into a problem by now. I would like to run this past Nicholas, but he's on vacation this week.