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1. Kiraa
   Member
   Posted 4 years 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

2. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 3 years 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

3. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 3 years 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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