thebard72

After a lot of digging, I found a not-quite-resolved thread elsewhere on the web that suggested I would need my Apache Configuration set to ‘All’ or ‘Options All’. Without paying for a dedicated server on GoDaddy, that setting is ‘Off’ and cannot be changed. To the best of my knowledge, everything that can be done has been done on their end.

However, by changing this portion of my .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

to:

# Fix 403 errors on existing directories; WordPress overrides.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(qmp)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

The 403 error goes away. BUT, all the formatting and images are gone. The most promising fix I’ve found does me no good.

I have ruled out plug-ins, having disabled, deleted, and even checked an old copy of the .htaccess file (from over a year ago) that is identical to what I have today, so no plug-in updates have rewritten it. It appears to be a conflict with the latest WordPress update that took my subfolder homepage down as that is the only other thing that changed. between ‘site working’ and ‘homepage broken’.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.