Smf Access Denied

[ictus]

OK, Tec support can't help, so I'm wondering if anyone else can.

 

I've installed SMF in a sub-domain of my forum, it works great, except when trying to change permissions and a few other similar bits.

 

I get this error:

 

Forbidden

 

You don't have permission to access /oicforum/index.php on this server.

 

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

 

now tracking it down the error seems to be 403 not 404, and on SMFs forums they have a fix as it's something to do with server permisions, however the fix doesn't work, and being a shared host understandably TCH wont relax access permissions.

 

But it sounds like other people are using SMF on this server just fine, I tried instalingit in the main domain as well just to see if that was the problem.

 

Any help would be much appreciated thanks...

[TweezerMan]

A 403 error is a 'Permission denied' error that is returned by the web server. I'd suggest looking at the .htaccess file in your /oicforum directory to see if there's any directives in it that would block access to the index.php file. If you don't find anything in that .htaccess file, go up in the directory tree to the parent directory and look at its .htaccess file, repeating as necessary until you find the problem or you reach the /public_html directory in your account (which is the top level web directory).

 

Hope this helps...

[ictus]

there was no .htaccess file, when I added the one suggested on the SMF forums, it crashed it.

 

which means it's the global .htaccess on my domain...

 

 

oh, got an idea, perhaps it's not the same as everyone elses as it was a site upload....

 

back to my job ticket...