By JuanSaudade
Hi,
Today morning i was trying to access A wordpress and a Moodle app in the dropplet, but i am receiving the 403 Forbidden error when accesing admin panel in WP and in Moodle in general. I have checked the hosts configuration files and updated with the appropiate rules, also i checked permissions on folders and files an nothing resolves the issue.
I am detecting some wierd behavior on .htaccess files, whenever i want to change the rules in the htaccess file in wordpress installation the changes are reverted, despite i disbled all plugins manually and deleted the file, it appears again and maybe one of the rules in this file is causing the forbidden error.
I was trying to do anything possible, but now i am stuck and cannot try anything else, but restore the dropplet from a backup.
Any hint would be great,
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Hello, @JuanSaudade
You can examine the Apache/Nginx error log in order to track down the source of the issue here.
Also, you can double-check the file/folder ownership and permissions and make sure that they’re correct.
The log can be accessed using the cat, tail or the less command
- sudo tail -n 2 /var/log/apache2/error.log
Substitute the number of lines that you would like to examine in place of the number 2 in the command.
If you’re using Nginx you can use the following command:
- tail -n 2 /var/log/nginx/error.log
Regards, Alex
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