Permalink problem (permission denied (403))
- May 29th, 2009
- Posted in Computer
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My problem was that all of a sudden I got the error message:
Permission denied (403)
When deleting my wordpress/.htaccess the site showed again and the admin panel was accessible once more. My Provider probably disabled the rewrite feature used by wordpress to create those permalinks. Anyways, trying to change back to default permalink structure would be prevented by the permission denied error right after hitting "Save changes" in the permalink section. The solution was to:
- delete the old .htaccess
- create an empty .htaccess
- set permissions of the new .htaccess to 444 (so that wordpress can not edit it anymore)
- changing permalink settings to default should work now
BTW: this was the reason for this blog to be offline for so long, I am sorry, if anybody cares
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