403 access forbidden after 2.7 upgrade – please help!

  • I just upgraded to 2.7 from 2.7b3. The automatic upgrade wouldn’t work (I just got a blank white screen when I tried to do it), so I did the manual upgrade. Deactivated all plugins and went through the steps (I’m not new at this).

    When I ran upgrade.php, the database was upgraded. But when I clicked “continue”, I got a “403 access forbidden” page. If I enter the URL for my site, I can’t see it! Just the 403 forbidden message.

    Any ideas?

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  • Thread Starter thehealthyskeptic

    (@thehealthyskeptic)

    Note: I have never had any permissions problems on my server, and I didn’t change any permissions before upgrading WordPress.

    I did deactivate all plugins before upgrading, so that shouldn’t be the problem either.

    Permissions on files are 644 and 755 on directories.

    BTW, I found this code in my .htaccess file:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

    Does anyone know what it is?

    Thread Starter thehealthyskeptic

    (@thehealthyskeptic)

    Please, can anyone help me with this? My blog has been down for a few hours right now and I’d really love to get it back up.

    I’ve called my host (1and1) twice and they are no help.

    what is the url to your blog, please?

    nevermind, I found it.

    lets look around:

    the wp-admin directory is there.

    the wp-admin/includes/ dir is there

    the wp-includes/ dir is there

    https://thehealthyskeptic.org/index.php

    your index.php is throwing a 500 error. what do your error logs say?

    https://thehealthyskeptic.org/wp-login.php

    go login, and change to the default theme.

    Thread Starter thehealthyskeptic

    (@thehealthyskeptic)

    Thanks so much for your reply. I was able to login using the link you provided, but when I attempt to change to the default theme, I get a 403 error once again.

    Where do I look in the error logs?

    are you on the linux plan?

    since they apparently dont allow access to them, you will need to do this, I guess:

    https://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/8.html

    Thread Starter thehealthyskeptic

    (@thehealthyskeptic)

    OK, I feel really, really dumb. Somehow when I copied over the new files I managed to miss the index.php in the main directory. That was the problem. Thanks anyways for your help!

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