Clifford

Hey no problem – I’ve spent hours pulling my hair out too. I think this is an issue with servers running the older apache 1.3 series.

In the end i searched using Google and it brought up that post eventually.

And you’re right this support forum desperately needs an inbuilt search function.

Happy blogging!

SOLVED !!! 403’s no longer a problem and permalinks working.

Try adding the following line at the top (the very first line) of .htaccess

Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

(Refer to this post micasuh)

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/6200?replies=10

I feel your pain.

I can get it to generate the file now but I have the same problem as you. It crashes with a 403 error.

This is my server config…

Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.4.21-4.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.4
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
PHP version 4.3.10
MySQL version 4.0.25-standard
cPanel Build 10.8.1-RELEASE 30
Theme cPanel X v2.5.0

It’s doing my head in!

Yeap I’m in exactly the same position.

WP 2.0 or 1.5.2 does not generate a .htaccess file. And when I add one it crashes with a 403 error.

I’ve followed everything in the codex – How do you get WP to generate the file? Or how can i add one without it crashing?

Can anyone shed light on this please?