Help! My users can't post on my SMF forum!

I run an SMF forum and every time anyone trys to post on my forum, i get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forum/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/1.3.41 Server at www.wdzine.com Port 80

My first though was to look for a .htacess file with the wrong permissions. i found a .htaccess file in my smf forum attachments folder that had a .htacess with:

<Files *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
</Files>


So i deleted the .htacess file and the problem still occurs!
What should i do?

 

Should i mess with the permissions on my index.php? right now, the file attribute is set to 644..is that not correct?

EDIT: I have also uninstalled all mods

I should also not that my forum is installed behind a wordpress domain

 

644 is correct. Check with your webhost to see what they can advise.

 

You should restore this .htaccess files as it's only a way to protect the attachments from being downloaded or linked from somewhere else than your domain.

If you are receiving that 404 error, I believe your server is configured to read index.html as the index file so add to your root .htaccess this line to correct it

DirectoryIndex index.php index.index.html index.htm

Code (markup):

 

Ok, i will restory the .htaccess file i deleted

Where do i insert that line? there is no .htaccess file in the front directory (after public_html) where my domain (www.wdzine.com) is. should i create one? If so, do i create it in www.wdzine.com/forum or where the domain is: www.wdzine.com?


thanks for the help!

 

ok, i tried creating a new .htaccess for both the above locations...didn't work

 

could it have something to do with my seo mod that i installed to my wordpress blog at www.wdzine.com?

i tried deactivating it, still the same

 

THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY it doesn't make any sense...if it had something to do with permissions, i'm the admin and i can't even post!

 

Ok this is extremely weird...certain times of the day users can post but other times they got the error!
Anyone know what might be going on here?

 

Check the error logs of your domain. I think that will help you to find the root cause of your issue. You can also contact your web host.

Kailash