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[resolved] Please help... I'm getting desparate! (70 posts)

  1. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    This is what I keep getting whe I try to change the reading options - no matter what I do; uninstall, reinstall, change permissions, no matter what!!!!

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access /word/wp-admin/options.php on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    Please, PLEASE, someone help?

  2. maerk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Are you using 2.0.3?

  3. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thank you!

    No, 2.0.2. I haven't gotten any Fantastico warnings about updating so honestly I didn't know there was a 2.0.3.

  4. maerk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    2.0.3 is causing troubles for some people, which might be why there's no warnings from fantastico.

    When did the problem start?

  5. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    When I installed it a few days ago. I had just opened my site and went through Fantasico to set it up, but it seems no matter what I do, I keep getting the same error.

  6. maerk
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hmm... have you tried searching the forum for similar entries. I personally have never had this problem, but some people might, and there might be a solution.

    If you google "wordpress 2.0.3 tuneup" you'll find a plugin which might help, it seems to be working for a lot of people.

    If not, you could always try mailing your hosts?

  7. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Got url?

    Checked file permissions?

  8. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    maerk - Yea, I searched. And until Fantastico says to update to 2.0.3 I'm not going to bother cuz I'm just "Wordpress Update Illiterate" like that. ^^
    Thanks though, I appreciate it.

    HandySolo - http://yorunohana.net
    and yup, checked permissions. :(

  9. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    do you have an .htaccess file in that directory? If you do, what's in it? Also if you do, what happens if you temporarily rename it?

  10. Yosemite
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Check you .htaccess file. Post it here (between bacticks) so we can see it. If you don't have an .htaccess file tell us.

    An important thing for people here to be able to help is knowing how you installed: Did you upload the WP package with FTP, or did you use a file-upload from the service provider's control panel? That also lets people know how you are 'seeing' your files/permissions/paths...

    Good luck ;')

  11. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I don't have a .htaccess file in the /word/ folder.
    And I installed it with Fantastico, so as far as any manual installations or upgrading I'm afraid I'm clueless.

  12. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Might want to contact the host... if you're positive there's no .htaccess in the blog directory, than something is seriously hosed. Perhaps they could look over your logs and see why everything goes to 404.

  13. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Wait a second...

    What's this? http://yorunohana.net/word/
    Earlier you said the blog was at http://yorunohana.net/

    It seems to work fine.

    Do you have two blogs installed?

  14. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I don't use the index in /word/. I link it from the index in the public_html.
    And it's only the options - reading that goes 404/403 when I try to update it. :(

    Thank you all btw for trying. :)

  15. Yosemite
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Check for .htaccess in the root /.

    And, look at this(?):

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

  16. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Yosemite - the only place I have a .htaccess is in the /public_html/ and as the techy-illiterate that I am, I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to put there anyway. All I do is log in and where it says add a file name or url I do.

    As for Giving WordPress it's own directory, believe it or not, I figured that out a long time ago. :)

    What I can't figure out is why no matter what I do, when I go to Options - Reading and try to change the number of posts, I get the 403/404 error. Everything else in Options works fine, it's just the Reading suboption.

  17. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    /public_html/ = root

    We'd sure like to see what's in the .htaccess located there.

  18. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    [RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yorunohana.net/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yorunohana.net$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yorunohana.net/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yorunohana.net$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yorunohana.net/word/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yorunohana.net/word$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yournohana.net/word/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yournohana.net/word$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]]

    This is it. Should I add something to it and if so, what and how? :)

  19. jennsoer
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I am having the same exact problem as Key. Only my options-reading page is giving me the 403/404 errors. And I can't have 20 entries on a page, I need to be able to customize these options! Please help us someone! I do not have a .htaccess file anywhere (what is it anyway?). my site is at:
    http://little-hypotenuse.com/index.php

    Thanks

  20. Yosemite
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    key93: your rewrite rules look pretty funky... Are you just running a WP blog or do you have other sites/html (in addition to WordPress) that require special handling?

    jennsoer: I like your site! Very original, neat graphics with nerd/grunge/philosophy/nature in there ;') I am confused by your use of html pages (quotes.html for example), BUT, first things first: Try using this URL to access your admin functions:
    http://little-hypotenuse.com/wordpress/wp-admin
    That should bring up a login, go ahead and login and see if you access your options that way. If you can, first stop should be OPTIONS:GENERAL and make sure "WordPress address (URI):" is h t t p : / / little-hypotenuse.com/wordpress (without the spaces ;') and that "Blog address (URI):" is set to h t t p : / / little-hypotenuse.com (without the spaces ;') and neither one should have any trailing slash.

    Then report back here ;')

  21. jennsoer
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks for responding Yosemite!

    Actually I have 2 wordpresses installed. The first one I installed in the main directory in public_html. I tried to install another one to see if it worked, and I installed it under the directory wordpress (the options-reading didn't work for this one too). So you just told me to login to the one in the wordpress directory, the second one I installed, one I don't care about and am going to delete. This one is not connected to the index.php that you just saw.

    So for my main blog under the admin url of http://little-hypotenuse.com/wp-admin, my general options are this:

    wordpress address: http://little-hypotenuse.com
    blog address: http://little-hypotenuse.com/index.php.

    The index.php is specified because little-hypotenuse.com right now leads directly to index.html, where my site has greymatter installed and not wordpress. I am making a transition.

    So all of that seems correct right?
    And by the way, I do have a .htaccess, but my FTP won't show it. I see it in my cpanel file directory, but I don't know how to actually open it to view it. And I don't even know if this has anything to do with .htaccess because I don't even get what that is.

    Sorry for writing so much, thank you!

  22. key93
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    No it's a pretty straight forward simple site. I didn't do the .htaccess by hand, I just went throught my cPanel and all it said to do was list what I wanted protected as far as hotlinking.

  23. Yosemite
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    jennsoer: Thanks for straightening me out, but:

    wordpress address: little-hypotenuse.com
    blog address: little-hypotenuse.com/index.php

    won't work. You can't have a filename there, that's probably why it's broken. For the moment, at least for testing, rename or remove the index.html file (there are tricks around this, but I'm afraid of us (me) getting lost somewhere else ;'). Remove the '/index.php' from the blog address and test... (And report back!)

  24. Yosemite
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    key93: Forgive me... I've been trying to re-read this thread, as I think I jumped too fast. Sorry. If you'll bear with me, confirm (or deny ;'):

    You can get around fine in all the Admin areas? The only big issue is that when you go to Options:Reading and change something, when you click on the submit button you get this error:
    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access /word/wp-admin/options.php on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    Have I got this right?

  25. jennsoer
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Yosemite, I did what you said. I temporarily got rid of my index.html so that index.php is the default. Then I changed the blog address to http://little-hypotenuse.com. I saved it, logged out, logged back in, and tried options-reading. It gave me the same 403 error.

    Me and Key seem to have the same exact problem. Its very strange. Thanks for helping Yosemite, but please share some more ideas! We're so frustrated!

  26. jennsoer
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    And Yosemite, yes, what you said is exactly what mine and Key's problem is!!!

    All the other admin functions work perfectly fine! Just options-reading doesn't work.

  27. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    shot in the dark: Does your host have mod_security running? If so, is it possible to get it disabled temporarily to see if that changes anything? I realize the 403 should be a 406, but just kinda pondering the notion...

  28. Yosemite
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Both youse guys: I have to go out shortly, may not respond again 'til morning. In the meantime: key doesn't want to upgrade to 2.0.3. What about you, jenn?

    Try it. Upgrade to 2.0.3 (follow directions ;') and then get this plugin and activate it: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/

    Follow directions, take your time. You can DEW IT!

    If you have a problem upgrading, post a brand new thread. When I get back to this forum I'll look for your post(s).

  29. jennsoer
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I actually already have the latest version. Key doesn't, but I do. I'll try the tuneup though. Thanks again Yosemite, I'll let you know if the tuneup works.

    HandySolo, I guess I can try that as a last result. My host is netrillium, should I just ask them about it?

  30. HandySolo
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Ask 'em if you don't mind. Would be good to know.

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