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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.