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HTTP Error 403 Message After Install


aligre

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You installed into the /catalog folder

 

This works:

 

http://boutiqueofbabytreasures.com/catalog/

 

Must have a bad .htaccess file in the root folder.

If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you.

 

"Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice."

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Ummm...

 

Do you have an index file in your root folder (either html or php)?

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If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you.

 

"Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice."

- Me -

 

"Headers already sent" - The definitive help

 

"Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it

 

SSL Implementation Help

 

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OK.

 

Let's do this.

 

Copy/paste the text in the CODE box into Notepad.

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Shop Offline</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" height="100%">
 <tr>
<td>
  <div align="center">
	<font size="7">Shop Offline awaiting launch.</font></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Save it as index.html

 

Upload it into the root (/) folder on your site.

 

I think you get the error because the root folder has no index file.

If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you.

 

"Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice."

- Me -

 

"Headers already sent" - The definitive help

 

"Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it

 

SSL Implementation Help

 

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OK.

 

Let's do this.

 

Copy/paste the text in the CODE box into Notepad.

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Shop Offline</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" height="100%">
 <tr>
<td>
  <div align="center">
	<font size="7">Shop Offline awaiting launch.</font></div>
</td>
 </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Save it as index.html

 

Upload it into the root (/) folder on your site.

 

I think you get the error because the root folder has no index file.

 

Thank you, I've done that. Everything still appears to look the same. What else am I doing wrong?

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If there is a .htaccess file in the root folder, rename it to text.htaccess

 

If not, contact your host for support.

If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you.

 

"Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice."

- Me -

 

"Headers already sent" - The definitive help

 

"Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it

 

SSL Implementation Help

 

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If there is a .htaccess file in the root folder, rename it to text.htaccess

 

If not, contact your host for support.

 

I only see a .htaccess file under /public/catalog/includes. Does this mean that I need to ask my host for help? Thank you.

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OK, I deleted everything and then installed again a different way. It's working much better now. The only thing is that I can't get rid of the pink error message at the top even though I have set the right user permissions on the file. That will be my next thing to figure out.

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FTP usually won't work at this.

 

You should login to your Web Host account and use the Control Panel, NOT OSCOMMERCE!

 

Try file permissions in this order until the pink warning disappears:

 

644

 

444

 

400

 

Be aware that permissions less than 644 make the file "read only" even to you and you'll need to change them to 644 before you can make any edits to the file in the future.

If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you.

 

"Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice."

- Me -

 

"Headers already sent" - The definitive help

 

"Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it

 

SSL Implementation Help

 

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FTP usually won't work at this.

 

You should login to your Web Host account and use the Control Panel, NOT OSCOMMERCE!

 

Try file permissions in this order until the pink warning disappears:

 

644

 

444

 

400

 

Be aware that permissions less than 644 make the file "read only" even to you and you'll need to change them to 644 before you can make any edits to the file in the future.

 

Thank you, I am still trying to work through this. Even setting the permissions to 400 from the File Manager in my Web Host account does not make the pink warning go away! Gasp.

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If you are absolutely certain the permissions are correct, and you still get the warning, you can turn the warning off this way:

 

At the bottom of /includes/application_top.php find this code:

 

  define('WARN_CONFIG_WRITEABLE', 'true');

Alter it to:

 

  define('WARN_CONFIG_WRITEABLE', 'false');

If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you.

 

"Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice."

- Me -

 

"Headers already sent" - The definitive help

 

"Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it

 

SSL Implementation Help

 

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