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

 

Erm, i don't get that you can view index but cannot post. As SMF passes all actions through the index and assigns them a php GET...

I would say re upload the index.php?

 

This doesn't have anything to do with your .htaccess. It's a permissions problem. Look at the install docs for the smf software and see what your perms should be and change them. You can change them via ftp or cpanel in the filemanager.

 

I have the original installation files, but where would it tell me what the permissions should be?

 

In a doc folder, or a readme file, could be text, a doc or an html file.

 

the readme has nothing about permissions, just server settings

 

When that fails, one must do a bit of digging:

http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=5.msg5#msg5

 

Ok, most of these attributes were set to 755..i changed them all to 777 and i am still getting the error.

 

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?

 

what kind of cookie settings you got going on?

 

the only thing i know about that is my cookie is named: smfforum13 i believe...what else do you need to know?

 

Ok, logged into my google webmaster account today and i had a "WARNINGS" under my sitemap

the warnings read:
URLs not followed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted. HTTP Error:
URL:
Found: 301 (Moved permanently)
http://www.wdzine.com/forum


could this have something to do with it?

 

try doing what they suggest and see how it works out.

 

I would but the funny thing is that my URLs in mysitemap contain no redirects..

you could even check them yourself, here is my sitemap:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,1.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,18.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,28.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,16.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,4.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.4</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,3.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,5.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,14.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,38.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,20.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,13.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,15.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,27.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,10.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,19.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,9.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,11.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,17.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.4</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,39.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.4</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,6.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.1</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,37.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.1</priority>
   </url> 
<url>
    <loc>http://www.wdzine.com/forum/index.php/board,36.0.html</loc>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>0.1</priority>
   </url>
</urlset>

HTML:

 

I had this problem. It's your host-get another one and you will notice!

 

try asking at SMF, maybe someone over there has an idea.

 

Ok, i'm going to try deactivating my wordpress all in one seo mod and resubmitting the sitemap for the forum...i suspect that might have something to do with it