403 error Forbidden

  • Hi,

    I have made no changes to my site and it has developed a 403 error in couple of random galleries. I think Lunar pages updated a couple of things but they are of no help at the moment.

    The URL is https://www.parallax.net.au/gallery/personal/

    Lunar pages said check the .htacess file and I have been reading forums on this an playing around for ages with no avail.

    Just incase this is the source of the trouble it is ….

    AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .phpOptions All -Indexes
    Options All -Indexes

    <Files 403.shtml>
    order allow,deny
    allow from all
    </Files>

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Any advice to point me in the right direction greatly appreciated!!

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  • I’ll bet you two scoops of chocolate ice cream it’s one of two things: your permalinks or something has gone sideways with your hosting.

    Try setting your permalinks to their default setting.

    Mangled permalinks can also make your menu items throw 404s – very embarrassing when your client sees them.

    If it’s a problem at your host, you’ll need to discuss it with them, especially if, after you go reset the items’ permissions to 755, they revert to 400 or whatever is making them lock you out.

    A third possibility is your security plugin.

    Hope that helps!

    If not, I’ll have to work out how I ship ice cream to Oz …

    I’d leave your .htaccess file alone, btw, in any case. In nearly six years of messing with themes, I’ve never had to touch it once.

    The wp-config file? Yes, with good and dreadful results. (At different times.)

    But the .htaccess file, I figure, is for real back-end devs. Not just tennis ladies who can click icons in cPanel.

    ??

    Thread Starter David McArthur

    (@davidm6105)

    Hi Marybaum,

    thanks for your advice but I reset the permalinks to default with not luck and the permissions all look fine (755 for folders and 644 for files)

    Thanks for your offer of postage of ice-cream to Oz but I won’t hold you to that one. As a 50 year old photographer I know enough to get into trouble but not always enough to get out of it!

    This time I didn’t even change anything on my site.

    Ill keep looking and let you know if I find the answer ??

    Heh.

    I’ll see your 50-yo photographer and raise you a 55-yo art director!

    Did you get it sorted?

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