Website down after changing permalinks to postname

just spent quite some time searching on Google and Stack Overflow for my problem, changed the .htaccess already but no changes.
I changed the permalink settings to postname, saved, refreshed my site and got the error: Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

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Apache Server at arnoldnumerouno.de Port 80

After searching I changed the .htaccess to:

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

The page is still down and I can’t access the wp-admin to set it to default again.

I really need some help 🙁 Just spent several hours on writing posts and now the page is down and I have no clue what to do.

Really appreciate any help from you guys,
thanks in advance

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2 comments

  1. Try removing:

    SetEnv PHP_VER 5_3

    Also, make sure that your files and directories have the proper permissions: 755 for directories, 644 for files.

    EDIT

    Also, try adding the following to the beginning of your .htaccess:

    Options +FollowSymLinks

  2. When generating new permalinks,
    if you have the wrong site url and home url settings,
    wordpress will give an error like:

    You don’t have permission to access / on this server

    (…actually it’s not finding the directory),

    if you’ve changed them recently, I suggest you check.


    to edit site url and home url directly in database use phpmyadmin,

    change siteurl and home row in the option table