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Help – I think I've installed it but I get error 403 forbiddent

  • @ellenheaney

    Member

    Help! I’m a complete novice at this and I’m trying to have a bb forum for my new website. I managed to create a subdirectory in filezilla (called forum) and I unzipped and uploaded bbpress into that folder.

    When I go to where I think it should be domainname/forum I get an error message telling me that the page can be found but I don’t have permission to view it.

    Where have I gone wrong (answers in words of one syllable or less please as I am an un IT savvy mummy)?

    Many thanks

    Ellen

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  • @chrishajer

    Participant

    Can you post a link to the forum and website?

    @ellenheaney

    Member

    Hi (sorry for the delay – putting kids to bed)

    Here is my website http://www.schooladmissionappeals.co.uk, and this is where I think the forum should be http://www.schooladmissionappeals.co.uk/forum.

    Many thanks for any help you can give.

    Ellen

    @michael888

    Participant

    Hi there

    Have you uploaded every single file into the folder? It seems that you do not have an install file in your bbPress folder.

    @ellenheaney

    Member

    I think so – I just drag and dropped the whole folder in. I’ll try downloading, unzipping and uploading again to see if that helps.

    @ellenheaney

    Member

    I still can’t get it. I even renamed the directory BBPress to see if that would somehow help! so it should now be at http://www.schooladmissionappeals.co.uk/BBpress – still no joy.

    I checked and in the admin folder there are three install files (install rtl.cc, install css, install php). I am probably making some really obvious mistake but I just can’t get my head around it (it took me half a day to manage wordpress’s 5 minute install so I should have expected some issues!)

    Any help is much appreciated.

    @michael888

    Participant

    In FileZilla, please can you tell me what it says when you go to “Change File Permissions” for the folder “BBPress”. It may have configured your folders incorrectly.

    Furthermore, I must ask you: Are you using a free-hosting service, a paid hosting service, or a local file-server (eg in you house)?

    @ellenheaney

    Member

    Hi

    to summarise the box; it says owner permission to read,write, execute; group permission to read and execute; public permission to read and execute; numeric value 755, recurse into sub directories is not checked.

    I’m being hosted by one.com, its a normally a paid for service but I got the first twelve months free.

    Many thanks again for your help.

    Ellen

    @michael888

    Participant

    It seems the permissions are okay – 775 should be fine. I don’t see where the problem is coming from. Ther may be a problem with one.com.

    I use 000webhost.com, and my forum works perfectly. I can’t see where the problem lies.

    Sorry I can’t help.

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