{"id":239,"date":"2011-09-19T18:19:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/09\/19\/403-forbidden-error\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:29:10","slug":"403-forbidden-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/error-numbers\/403-forbidden-error\/","title":{"rendered":"403 Forbidden Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different types of errors that can happen when building a website. One of the more common ones is the <em>403 Forbidden Error<\/em>. Here we discuss this error and what you can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>The two most common causes of a &#8220;<strong>403 Forbidden<\/strong>&#8221; error are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Incorrect File Permissions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;No Index&#8221; in .htaccess file is improperly used<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Correcting a 403 Forbidden Error<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li>First, you will want to <strong>check the file permissions<\/strong> that each of your files has set. If a file or folder is set to &#8220;<strong>777<\/strong>&#8221; which is &#8220;<strong>world<\/strong>&#8221; writable for security reasons the 403 error will be displayed to protect your website from hacks. Folders should have the permissions set to &#8220;<strong>750<\/strong>&#8221; or &#8220;755&#8221; and files should be set to &#8220;644&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Once you have verified all the permissions are correct and the issue still persists, you will need to <strong>check your .htaccess file<\/strong>. Please keep in mind that you can have multiple .htaccess files in your account, so you may need to search \/ modify .htaccess files other than public_html\/.htaccess. For example, if you have an addon domain located at public_html\/addon_domain, you&#8217;ll need to check any .htaccess files within that folder as well. If one of the lines in the actual file says &#8220;<strong>Options All -Indexes<\/strong>&#8221; then simply<strong> remove &#8220;-Indexes&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>save the file<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At this point if the issue still persists please <a href=\"\/support\/amp\/how-to-get-great-technical-support\/\">contact support for further assistance<\/a> in diagnosing the 403 forbidden error message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different types of errors that can happen when building a website. One of the more common ones is the 403 Forbidden Error. Here we discuss this error and what you can do about it. 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