ERROR Forbidden

[mosravo]

Hello,
Please i need your help on this. I have a site hosted using smf, when i try login, this is the error i see. Please what may be the cause. below is the error that display as i login in.



Forbidden

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

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

[Night09]

Have you changed anything recently?  Check log errors from your phpmyadmin panel for any clues to the error. It could be a change in mod security if the host uses that. Try clear your browser cache or use another browser to try narrow it down.

[Illori]

you should contact your host since it is giving you a permission error.

[kat]

If they've upgraded a server, it might be mod_security,  as Night said. Might, also, be that you don't have full CHOWN ownership of your files, now.

Ninjad!

[mosravo]

If they've upgraded a server, it might be mod_security,  as Night said. Might, also, be that you don't have full CHOWN ownership of your files, now.

Ninjad!

But i have access to the control panel where i effect the CHOWN by myself or is there any other super CHOWN that need to be effected?

[kat]

CHOWN? Or, CHMOD?

There's a big difference.

CHOWN is something only your host can set. Unless you're self-hosted?

[Night09]

Has the host updated anything?  As for CHMOD as K@ pointed out check your directorys set to 755 and files set to 644.

[mosravo]

@Night09 all my folders are set to privilege 0755 and my files are set to 0644,so what do you suggest i do? to contact my host or what? because the smf and all the changes i made are running properly on my localhost system.

[Kindred]

talk to your host.   You almost certainly have issues with mod_security

[Burke ♞ Knight]

You may be able to disable mod_security yourself, in cPanel.
Under the Security area, look for: Web Security Manager
In there, look and see if mod_security is enabled for the domain the forum is on.

[Ninja ZX-10RR]

There is also this... http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=526748.msg3743362#msg3743362 why did you ask it multiple times? Also... The other one is a 2.0 topic while this one is a 1.1.x topic. If you are running 1.1.x you should really consider updating since 1.1.x is almost at the end of its life...

[Irisado]

It seems that this is being handled in the 2.0 topic, so I'm locking this.  We don't need two topics on the same issue.