Newbie question – killed my own site messing around with htaccess

  • I had my site up and running at danglerfamily.com/blog and then I tried to install a .htaccess file so I could use the calendar widget. Obviously, I did something really wrong because I now get a 403 error. I read through documentation and the forums, but I can’t figure out why it’s doing this. When I got the error message, I deleted the .htaccess file, but the error message continues. I think it has something to do with permissions on the blog folder, but I can’t seem to change them like I can with files. I contacted my web host and they asked me to redirect my root folder, which didn’t help. Then they stopped helping because WordPress is a third party application (which I can understand).

    Any help is greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Doug

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  • I know it is closing the barn door after the cows have already gotten out but you did not make a copy of the htacess file before you changed it? Is there some way you can ask a friend or someone else through your domain host for a copy of an unedited htaccess file? It is only a small text file and you may find a sympathetic ear if you only ask them for a copy of one file to get it back to normal. Do you have backup copies of your files for your webpages? I don’t know if you can get it but it seems it would be easy for them to get the information for you and that way you do not have to ask for support about a third party app.
    Hope it helps.

    Ward

    If you visit Options -> Permalinks, WordPress will either rebuild your .htaccess or tell you what to manually add to it.

    Have you tried that yet?

    Thread Starter doug213

    (@doug213)

    Ward: I couldn’t find a copy of the htaccess file before I uploaded a blank test file. It didn’t show up on my ftp program and I couldn’t find any option for “show hidden files”, so I assumed it wasn’t there (opps). After I uploaded it, I could see it as .htaccess, so I assume that Wyse FTP does not hide hidden files.

    HandySolo: I can’t get any access to wordpress at all. I think the problem is in the permissions to the folder, but I don’t know how I changed them, etc.

    Thread Starter doug213

    (@doug213)

    Opps, and thank you for your suggestions!

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