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GreatBigBore
Joined: 22 Jan 2014
Posts: 3
Location: Chico
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 Posted: Wed 22 Jan '14 1:23 Post subject: 403 Forbidden |
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I'm not a web admin by any stretch of the imagination. I've inherited this task and I'm struggling with it. We have a live website that works fine. We have a totally new website that is currently on a development server, and the new site works fine too. Boss now wants the totally new website to go live on the currently live url. My idea is simply to copy all the new pages and other data to the live server. Did that, and now when I browse to the site I get 403 Forbidden. The only clue I have is an error log that says that .htaccess is unreadable, although I've changed the permissions on .htaccess to match those of the old site's .htaccess.
Based on what I found in various help forums, I did a chown to change the owner of the top-level directory (public_html) to "nobody". I added executable permissions on all the cgi files. No joy.
Can anyone give me some ideas for what to check, or a better forum to ask help from? |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Does your webserver run under nobody? Most linux distros have a user called www or www-data for that. |
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