Title: permalinks 403 error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# permalinks 403 error

 *  Resolved [lieberwoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lieberwoman/)
 * (@lieberwoman)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-403-error/)
 * When I try to update the permalinks structure I can’t access the entire site 
   anymore (I get a permission denied 403 error on anything in the wordpress directory).
   The only way I can get the site back up is to delete the .htaccess file.

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 *  [chigh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chigh/)
 * (@chigh)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-403-error/#post-246639)
 * Are the permissions on your .htaccess file correct? It has to be writeable by
   WP.
 * chmod 666 .htaccess
 *  Thread Starter [lieberwoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lieberwoman/)
 * (@lieberwoman)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-403-error/#post-246642)
 * I have a Windows server host and wordpress is able to write the .htaccess file.
   I think I have fixed this problem (FINALLY!). I had tried adding
 * AllowOverride all
 * in my http.conf (specifically for the blog directory).
 * That seems to have caused the 403 problem. I removed that section of the http.
   conf file and made added to my root directory
 * AllowOverride all
 * (previously AllowOverride None).
 * So it STILL didn’t work, I got 404 errors when using permalinks. I thought since
   I was using Apache on windows that I could use mod_rewrite. Anyway, I gave up
   and got it working with /index.php/ in my permalink structure.
 * Any idea why it doesn’t work with Apache 2 on Windows?
 *  [blackpaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackpaw/)
 * (@blackpaw)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-403-error/#post-247195)
 * for me it worked when I added
    Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch on top of the .htaccess
 * as mentioned in
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/43981](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/43981)
 * cheers

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 * Last reply from: [blackpaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackpaw/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-403-error/#post-247195)
 * Status: resolved

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