Okay, I’ll pipe in with my particular version of this problem. I upgraded to wp2, and kept the .htaccess file in my main directory, not the wp subdirectory. Then I changed my permalink option from the default to the next one down on the page. I got a permission denied warning and my site stopped loading at all. I noticed via ftp that there was now a .htaccess file in the wp subdirectory. Deleted that, then went back to permalink options and tried to undo the damage, but the same thing happened again.
Now my site is up but barely. If I try to click on the comments for any post, I get:
Warning: main(/nfs/www/WWW_pages/annehill/gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/wp-config.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /nfs/www/WWW_pages/annehill/gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/wp-blog-header.php on line 12
I’m too much of a php neophyte to know whether the fixes posted earlier in this thread would help in my situation. Can someone please tell me how to edit the config file and/or .htaccess so I can get up and running again? (I’d like to keep the change in permalink style, but wonder whether it will be backward compatible with earlier links people have posted on their sites.)
Thanks,
Anne
https://www.gnosiscafe.com/gcblog