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Hoorah and huzzah!

It worked! The ‘Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch’ at the top of .htaccess did the trick. Excellent and fullsome article that you pointed me to, fadedpictures, thank you. (and I like your website!)

Thanks also to vkaryl for your very practical advice. Did have .htaccess in the right folder, but it wouldn’t be the first time that I missed something obvious.

~R

Further adventures: I found that the permalinks had been set to the wrong links on all my posts. The issue seemed to be unresolveable and I have had to remove WordPress from my server.

Would be nice to have a solution to this critical bug since it’s stopped me using this otherwise excellent piece of software for the moment. How many more people has/is/will it it screw up? Is it just me?

I had a similar problem. On changing the the permalink structure I received the 403 error and was unable to access any of my site (as by now I had put WP in the root).

Once I deleted all the WordPress additions in the .htaccess file I was able to access the site again and the admin pages. However, I had to change the permalink structure back to the default (blank) as the links for my posts were wrong.

Any further attempts to modify the permalink structure, other than to the default, seems to result in the same 403 error.

Did you guys manage to resolve the issue? I would really like to use permalinks.