Error 403 Forbidden After Posting On Wordpress Blog
After posting a new article on one of my Wordpress blogs I suddenly was unable to access my site. I kept receiving this Error 403 Forbidden for the index.php file.
Not much fun because this blog brings in some Adsense income and I was about to leave on a flight. Always hate it when a site dies and I have no time to fix it.
I had no idea what was going on because I am not that familiar with http 403 errors and stuff. At first I thought there was a problem with my hosting company. I checked another blog on the same host and that was running fine.
But this ‘forbidden’ message made me think of permissions so I decided to get into the cPanel and when I opened File Manager I noticed that the file index.php was showing 000 for file permissions.
So next I opened cPanel on another site with a Wordpress blog on it and checked the same file. It was showing 644.
Easy, I went back to te bad site and changed the permissions of index.php to 644 as well and it was live again.
I have no idea what caused the file permissions to change but anyway I am glad I got rid of the Error 403 Forbidden message and had the site running again.
Category: Hosting, Wordpress | Tags: Error 403 Forbidden, file permissions 4 comments »
November 9th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Hi.
My computer worked slowly, many errors. Please, help me to fix errors on my computer.
My operation system is Windows XP.
With best regards,
ZevaPityneate
November 9th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Hi,
The error I am describing here applies to a web server (host). If you have serious problems with your PC and windows XP, I would like to refer you to http://www.askdavetaylor.com/
January 11th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
hi,
I have the same 403 error, but the file permission is 644.
you have any other idea why this is happening?
Thanks
January 12th, 2010 at 4:14 am
I know how frustrating it is to have a dead site!
A file permissions error was the first thing I thought about in this case although I have no idea why it happened.
Nowadays I always try to keep my WordPress and plugins up to date.
So one thing you could do is reinstall WordPress, making sure you put back your old /content/ folder with your theme and plugins and restoring config.php with your database user and password.
Deleting your database and rebuilding it with your backup in phpMyAdmin (from Cpanel) is a last option.
If all this doesn’t work, contacting support at your hosting provider is the only option.