403 Forbidden, Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

Contourlinegraph

• January 12, 2020 15:41

Hello, I use cPanel as it came with my GoDaddy hosting package. Over the last year I have learned alot, but admittedly on the verge of knowing barley enough to be dangerous and not knowing how to fix certain issues I probably created. I was attempting to upload a fresh version of my website so I created a backup using cPanel backup feature. I began uploading my new files for the fresh site and starting getting other errors not relevant to this thread's issue. So I restored my website from my backup, which was previously 100% functional. I am now receiving this error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. After about a day of google searching and reading other posts from people with similar issues I understand this to be a permissions error? And to my understanding public_html should be 0750, folders within 0755, and files within 0644. I have checked, and aside from .ftpquota this is in fact the case in my file manager. (including .htaccess itself being 0644) Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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  quietFinn

  • January 13, 2020 17:11

  @Contourlinegraph what user owns the .htaccess file?

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  cPanelLauren

  • January 14, 2020 17:28

  File ownership could be an issue here - you'd also want to check the permissions/ownership of the public_html directory itself as well.

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