Question

I have a simple issue to resolve. Every time I access one of the URLs explicitly defined in .htaccess (used by Joomla), I’m getting 403 Forbidden message.

Details about my setup:

1. I’m using shared hosting
2. Joomla is installed in the root folder
3. my newly created page is located in /new/products.php
4. .htaccess is the default one supplied by Joomla with one additional rule: rewriterule $/new/products^ /new/products.php [R=301,L]
5. Options +FollowSymLinks is commented out, but switching it on doesn’t change anything

Each time I access mysite.com/new/products I’ getting:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /new/products/ on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to
use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In the end I simply removed old site, cleared all Jooml entries in .htaccess and did RewriteBase to point to my directory. The problem is no more.