403 Forbidden after enabling permalinks

  • Resolved seoguru

    (@seoguru)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    I installed WordPress and everything worked fine.

    Then I activated permalinks (date and name based). This resulted in the message “You should update your .htaccess now.”. The pages also showed which code I had to place in the .htaccess:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /seo-blog/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /seo-blog/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    I did so and did a chmod 666 on the .htaccess-file.

    But when I go to the homepage of my weblog now, I get the following message:
    “
    403
    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /seo-blog/ on this server.”

    /seo-blog/ is the directory of my blog. The chmod of this directory is 755.

    According to my hostingprovider mod_rewrite is enabled.

    What am I doing wrong? Please help.

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  • And where did you put the htaccess file? In the seo-blog directory?

    Thread Starter seoguru

    (@seoguru)

    yes!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Try adding Options +FollowSymLinks to the top of the .htaccess file.

    If that doesn’t work, verify that the host has AllowOverride enabled. Verify what they have the AllowOverride set to.

    Thread Starter seoguru

    (@seoguru)

    I’m amazed. The extra line works!

    Thank you very much!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    For reference, if anybody else wants to know:
    mod_rewrite can be used to simulate a symbolic link. This is why mod_rewrite requires FollowSymLinks to be enabled, because it’s a similar security thing. So if your host doesn’t enable FollowSymLinks, and you try using mod_rewrite, you’ll get the 403 error. Adding Options +FollowSymLinks will override it for your directory, allowing mod_rewrite to work.

    But, if you have this problem and you add Options +FollowSymLinks and then get a 500 error instead, then your host is disallowing the use of the Options directive in .htaccess files, and there’s little you can do but complain to them.

    But, if you have this problem and you add Options +FollowSymLinks and then get a 500 error instead, then your host is disallowing the use of the Options directive in .htaccess files, and there’s little you can do but complain to them.

    I’m in that situaction. What can I do? Is that my provider mistake or mine? Can I fix it?

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