403 Error after activating .htaccess

  • kiraa

    (@kiraa)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    Hi everybody, i got a little problem with my new wordpress installation and despite my not-so-good english i someone can help me:

    Installation works fine and if i keep my .htaccess file blank and do not change the permalink strucure everything works fine.

    But if i let wordpress write my htaccess file all folders and files (even existing ones which stand in no relation to wordpress) are not accessible any longer.

    Error message:
    403 – Forbidden
    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

    Anyone got an Idea how i can fix this?
    Thanks in advance
    Kiraa

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  • 776443

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    exactly the same happened to me a view minutes ago. To save the nerves of others to who the same might happen, here how I resolved it.

    So the last thing which happened, before the site stoped working was that the admin page modified the .htaccess.
    Therefore I started an ssh session with my terminal to the server, navigated to the base directory of wordpress and opened the .htaccess.
    It has a line which says:
    RewriteEnginge On Find this line and change it to RewriteEngine Off then save and exit the .htaccess file.

    Now you could change back the admin page – if you remember how to access it 😉
    If not, this should work: http://www.yourownfancywordpressdomainname.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php

    Luckily I had it still in my other browserwindow 🙂

    So with this, I was able to change it back to default. At least something. But if someone could give a hint why it does not work to change the permalink to i.e. “Day and Name”, that would be great.

    rgds,

    Ykä

    776443

    15 years, 9 months ago

    And this sticky note here unfortunately has not solved my problem. Seems I need to wait for 2.6.1 then?

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