Title: Frequent 403 errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Frequent 403 errors

 *  [slideaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modsuperstar/)
 * (@modsuperstar)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frequent-403-errors/)
 * I’ve been having this issue for about a month now. Every couple of days one of
   my sites or another is getting this same issue.
 * > Forbidden
   > You don’t have permission to access /index.php on this server.
   > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an 
   > ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 * The problem seems to be that the index.php seems to lose permissions at some 
   random point, to which I can fix it by deleting the file and reupping it to the
   server. I have 5 WP installs on my server and I believe all of them have run 
   into this problem. They are all up to date with the current version. Anyone know
   why this might be happening?

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 *  Thread Starter [slideaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modsuperstar/)
 * (@modsuperstar)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frequent-403-errors/#post-1437638)
 * I’ll also add these aren’t new installs, all had been running fine previous to
   the last month, now this happens to one of my sites every couple of days.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frequent-403-errors/#post-1437638)
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