Php – WordPress 403 Forbidden “You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”

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I can't access any pages/login to my WordPress based website.
I get this message:
Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.
after some research on StackOverflow and other WordPress support forums I tried to change the .htacess file without success, also tried to duplicate it from the root directory to /wp-admin again nothing has changed… But I'm not really sure about what I did…

I went back to how it was when it stopped working
permissions are 705 for the folder and 604 for the .htaccess file which is :

SetEnv PHP_VER 5_3
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I'm using WP 3.4 and I don't know if I use PHP 5.3 (what says the .htaccess 1st line) or 4.0.1 (on PHPMyAdmin from the website host access 'OVH')

Thank you very much for your attention.
Ismaël

Best Answer

Make WP recreate the .htaccess the file itself.

Delete .htaccess via FTP, then change your permalink structure to default, then back to your desired permalink style. This will recreate the .htaccess. if that fails, you can try to reinstall the WP core by deleting everything except wp-content and wp-config.php.

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