Title: 403 error after Chown
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 403 error after Chown

 *  Resolved [Arash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john25/)
 * (@john25)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-after-chown/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threestyler/)
 * (@threestyler)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-after-chown/#post-1526301)
 * open .htaccess and delete anything related to wp supercache
 *  [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-after-chown/#post-1526338)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john25/)
 * (@john25)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-after-chown/#post-1526500)
 * 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)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-after-chown/#post-1526502)
 * 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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