Please help… I’m getting desparate!

/public_html/ = root

We’d sure like to see what’s in the .htaccess located there.

[RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.yorunohana.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.yorunohana.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://yorunohana.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://yorunohana.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://yorunohana.net/word/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://yorunohana.net/word$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.yournohana.net/word/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.yournohana.net/word$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ – [F,NC]]

This is it. Should I add something to it and if so, what and how? ??

I am having the same exact problem as Key. Only my options-reading page is giving me the 403/404 errors. And I can’t have 20 entries on a page, I need to be able to customize these options! Please help us someone! I do not have a .htaccess file anywhere (what is it anyway?). my site is at:
https://little-hypotenuse.com/index.php

Thanks

key93: your rewrite rules look pretty funky… Are you just running a WP blog or do you have other sites/html (in addition to WordPress) that require special handling?

jennsoer: I like your site! Very original, neat graphics with nerd/grunge/philosophy/nature in there ;’) I am confused by your use of html pages (quotes.html for example), BUT, first things first: Try using this URL to access your admin functions:
https://little-hypotenuse.com/wordpress/wp-admin
That should bring up a login, go ahead and login and see if you access your options that way. If you can, first stop should be OPTIONS:GENERAL and make sure “WordPress address (URI):” is h t t p : / / little-hypotenuse.com/wordpress (without the spaces ;’) and that “Blog address (URI):” is set to h t t p : / / little-hypotenuse.com (without the spaces ;’) and neither one should have any trailing slash.

Then report back here ;’)

Thanks for responding Yosemite!

Actually I have 2 wordpresses installed. The first one I installed in the main directory in public_html. I tried to install another one to see if it worked, and I installed it under the directory wordpress (the options-reading didn’t work for this one too). So you just told me to login to the one in the wordpress directory, the second one I installed, one I don’t care about and am going to delete. This one is not connected to the index.php that you just saw.

So for my main blog under the admin url of https://little-hypotenuse.com/wp-admin, my general options are this:

wordpress address: https://little-hypotenuse.com
blog address: https://little-hypotenuse.com/index.php.

The index.php is specified because little-hypotenuse.com right now leads directly to index.html, where my site has greymatter installed and not wordpress. I am making a transition.

So all of that seems correct right?
And by the way, I do have a .htaccess, but my FTP won’t show it. I see it in my cpanel file directory, but I don’t know how to actually open it to view it. And I don’t even know if this has anything to do with .htaccess because I don’t even get what that is.

Sorry for writing so much, thank you!

No it’s a pretty straight forward simple site. I didn’t do the .htaccess by hand, I just went throught my cPanel and all it said to do was list what I wanted protected as far as hotlinking.

jennsoer: Thanks for straightening me out, but:

wordpress address: little-hypotenuse.com
blog address: little-hypotenuse.com/index.php

won’t work. You can’t have a filename there, that’s probably why it’s broken. For the moment, at least for testing, rename or remove the index.html file (there are tricks around this, but I’m afraid of us (me) getting lost somewhere else ;’). Remove the ‘/index.php’ from the blog address and test… (And report back!)

key93: Forgive me… I’ve been trying to re-read this thread, as I think I jumped too fast. Sorry. If you’ll bear with me, confirm (or deny ;’):

You can get around fine in all the Admin areas? The only big issue is that when you go to Options:Reading and change something, when you click on the submit button you get this error:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /word/wp-admin/options.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Have I got this right?

Yosemite, I did what you said. I temporarily got rid of my index.html so that index.php is the default. Then I changed the blog address to https://little-hypotenuse.com. I saved it, logged out, logged back in, and tried options-reading. It gave me the same 403 error.

Me and Key seem to have the same exact problem. Its very strange. Thanks for helping Yosemite, but please share some more ideas! We’re so frustrated!

And Yosemite, yes, what you said is exactly what mine and Key’s problem is!!!

All the other admin functions work perfectly fine! Just options-reading doesn’t work.

shot in the dark: Does your host have mod_security running? If so, is it possible to get it disabled temporarily to see if that changes anything? I realize the 403 should be a 406, but just kinda pondering the notion…

Both youse guys: I have to go out shortly, may not respond again ’til morning. In the meantime: key doesn’t want to upgrade to 2.0.3. What about you, jenn?

Try it. Upgrade to 2.0.3 (follow directions ;’) and then get this plugin and activate it: https://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/

Follow directions, take your time. You can DEW IT!

If you have a problem upgrading, post a brand new thread. When I get back to this forum I’ll look for your post(s).

I actually already have the latest version. Key doesn’t, but I do. I’ll try the tuneup though. Thanks again Yosemite, I’ll let you know if the tuneup works.

HandySolo, I guess I can try that as a last result. My host is netrillium, should I just ask them about it?

Ask ’em if you don’t mind. Would be good to know.

Yosemite, I did the tuneup, activated the plugin, and it didn’t work. ??