Try to set it back to the default permalink settings, temporarily, and see if that will work. Certain settings get reset when it goes back to default.
If it works when set to default then try changing it again to the settings you actually want.
Hi and thank you for the quick respond…..but i´m sorry it does not work resetting the structure already tried this. I can only go back in admin interface. forward brings me to an 403….Damn
Any other suggestions?
BTW this is how my htaccess file looks like
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Is your server’s httpd.conf file set up correctly? It’s the only thing I can think of if your .htaccess is all ok.
If you have access to your server’s php config, open httpd.conf and replace “AllowOverride None” with “AllowOverride All”
You’ll need to reboot the server or http.conf for it to take effect.
Hi Again i changed the htaccess file permissions (CHMOD) to 644 and then all was perfect ;o)
Thank
Best regards
René Simonsen
This afternoon i also got the similar error where trying to enable permalinks. I just posted a blog describing my solution. hoping helpfull for others.
wordpress permalinks causes error: 403 Forbidden
Hello. I have got this same problem. I have researched but I have not found any solution.
At the beginning my empty htaccess file did not update properly, after changing its permissions, it is updated by WordPress but I got a 403 error and can not access to the blog.
When WordPress does not update the htaccess file because of file permissions, it tells me to ad this to the file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I have done this too, but it seems everytime htaccess is modified I can not access to the blog. While the file is blank there is no problem.
Any ideas?
Problem solved with this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
problem solved by changing rights on htaccess file as above:
… i changed the htaccess file permissions (CHMOD) to 644 and then all was perfect ;o)
choose ‘show hidden files’ in your FTP-client to see .htaccess
before that i tried to solve the problem by deleting the option_value “/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/”of permalink_structure in wp_options under myphpadmin – without any effect
many thanks
