403 error after Chown

  • Resolved Arash

    (@john25)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    I installed WP Super Cache and it made some of its folders have owner 99. So I could not delete of edit the folders and files. Why make a plugin that cannot be deleted!?!?

    So I searched for people with the same problem and I was advised to login as root, located the folder and use the following command

    chown -R user:group ./

    where user is my FTP username and group is the group it belongs to. Now I could finally delete WP Super Cache. BUT not people cannot access my website and get

    Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    How can I undo chown or make my site accessible?

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  • threestyler

    (@threestyler)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    open .htaccess and delete anything related to wp supercache

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    There’s something odd about your setup – maybe you have mod_security or some PHP security setting on that’s giving the error.

    Thread Starter Arash

    (@john25)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for you comments. This problem has been fixed.

    I ran several test and the speed improvements where minimal. I guess this may be a great plugin for a heavy website with a huge amount of users or for visitors with low speed Internet.

    Our site has around 120K users a month and the average user has a 8.6mbit connection and the Page Speed Score is 89/100.

    I really don’t understand what the whole buzz around WP Super Cache is.

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Hehe, you’ve obviously got the hardware on your server to cope with the traffic you get! Leave it installed, when your site gets busier it will help greatly.

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