WordPress has become unreachable

  • I’ve been running www.remarpro.com happily for years on a server with Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4. Just recently though, I installed a new service (openproject) which uses port 80. So my web URL: https://example.net (say) pointed to openproject rather than wordpress. I changed the port of openproject to 8080 so its the URL is now https://example.net:8080. But now port 80 is unreachable – the URL https://example.net gives me the 403 error with “You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”

    It’s so long since I installed wordpress that I’m not sure what permissions, ownerships should be in place to have it work. Currently:

    • most wp-* files and directories in /var/www/html have ownership wpadmin:wpadmin, where wpadmin is the wordpress user
    • wp-content/ and .htaccess are owned by www-data (the web server)

    As far as I know, none of the other files in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ have been changed. How can I most easily have wordpress available to me again? Thanks!

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  • It’s best for all the WordPress files on a Linux based OS to have the same owner and group (for example wpadmin:wpadmin). Also, the file permissions should be 644 for files and 755 for folders. Depends of course on the server setup you have, however, those are the most common ones.

    In your case, I believe the problem is the server. I don’t think this is something related to WordPress. I would advise you to check the configuration of the Apache you are running ??

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