Question
403 You don't have permission to access / on this server.
- Posted on November 26, 2013
Asked by marcos.lenine
Hi!
I was having a problem when uploading new themes for my both Wordpress blog. DO’s support helped me with it, saying that i had to create and edit a /.htaccess file.
I did for the first droplet - ok, nice!
When i tried for the second, i was not able to access my blog anymore and got exactly this message: “403 You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”
Can you help me? Thanks
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What’s the output of: <br><pre>ls -la /path/to/WordPress/installation</pre> <br>If you see <code>root:root</code> sprinkled anywhere in there, execute: <br><pre>sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/WordPress/installation</pre>
You have to pass the <code>-r</code> flag to <code>rm</code> in order to delete a directory. So you will have to run this command instead: <pre>rm -r /home/wordpress/public_html/.htaccess</pre>
No, no files! but i’m not able to remove with “sudo rm”