Changed URL in settings and now get Forbidden You don't have permission to acce

  • Resolved katmccreesh1

    (@katmccreesh1)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi All,

    Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

    I originally changed the URL of my website using the Setting and General tabs in WordPress to manually change both the home and site url as I have changed the primary domain from the test site address to my main website address on my website hosting server. This broke my site and access to everything went down. My site and admin section had a forbidden error.

    As recommended to fix this issue, I followed all of the advice for changing the URL in the http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL# page and updated the wp-config.php and functions.php file to include the exampled two lines of text outlayed at that link. I’ve looked in Myphpadmin and the new domain is spelt correctly. None of this worked.

    Another forum post recommended deleting the .htaccess file from the site so I did that and cleared my cookies.

    There is obviously a key step I am missing as after all of this I still get the error

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin on this server.

    Apache/2.2.24 (Red Hat) Server at kathleenmccreesh.com Port 80

    I have had a change to the main site though as now, when I access the website, my web hosts have a holding page there and it says

    kathleenmccreesh.com
    This domain has been registered by Heart Internet if you are the owner of this domain please login

    in the header. Any ideas what if anything I can do or should have done to resolve this issue??

    Thanks All,
    Kat

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  • SJW

    (@whitsey)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    1. Check the database table wp_options – look for option_name =’siteurl’ AND option_name =’home’ – make sure these are correct (with http: http://www.livesiteurl.com)

    2. Check .htaccess – if need be, rename it .htaccess_bak

    3. Check the home directory of your install – make sure there is no index.html file.

    Thread Starter katmccreesh1

    (@katmccreesh1)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Shannon,

    I hadn’t put the www in front of the name and adding that allowed me access to the admin site. However I am still unable to access the main site. It just loads blank. I’ve checked the link for the home page for example and it is correct in WP’s dashboard. Any ideas on how I can get the main site back online on the new domain. All files are still in the same place and should be accessible to the system.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter katmccreesh1

    (@katmccreesh1)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Figured out the issue and resolved. thanks all

    essgreen

    (@essgreen)

    8 years ago

    How was this resolved? I have the same issue… 🙁

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