Title: Forbidden Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Forbidden Error

 *  Resolved [livebrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livebrick/)
 * (@livebrick)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/)
 * Ok, So I follow the instructions and install my blog to my own host just today,
   Except…I get this message on the index page of the admin area:
 * “_Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access **/wordpress/wp-admin/index-
   extra.php** on this server.
 * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument
   to handle the request.
    Apache/1.3.37 Server at [http://www.livebrick.net](http://www.livebrick.net)
   Port 80“
 * Also, when I try to make a new category:
 * “_Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access **/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-
   ajax.php** on this server.
 * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument
   to handle the request.
    Apache/1.3.37 Server at [http://www.livebrick.net](http://www.livebrick.net)
   Port 80“
 * Please help me to resolve this problem, Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [livebrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livebrick/)
 * (@livebrick)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-573697)
 * I still have the save problem after re-installing it manually, then, I deleted
   it again off my host, because I found out it would automatically install with
   fantisco, So I did that but I still get the same problem.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-573698)
 * See if this addition to your .htaccess helps:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117993?replies=32#post-560123](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117993?replies=32#post-560123)
 *  Thread Starter [livebrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livebrick/)
 * (@livebrick)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-573700)
 * I don’t have a .htaccess file in the root folder of /blog. Actually, Anywhere
   in my website folders.
 * Do I have to create one? and how do I create one?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-573703)
 * Use an [editor](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor) to create [.htaccess](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#.htaccess)
   on your local machine and use [an FTP client such as FileZilla](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_FileZilla)
   to [upload the .htaccess file](http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host)
   to the folder suggested in that link I provided above.
 * Resources:
 * [Glossary entry for editor](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor)
   
   [Glossary entry .htaccess](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#.htaccess) [Codex article on using FileZilla](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_FileZilla)
   [Codex article on Uploading to a remote host](http://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host)
 *  Thread Starter [livebrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livebrick/)
 * (@livebrick)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-573704)
 * Thank you so much! It’s working now!
 *  [hakre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hakre/)
 * (@hakre)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-574035)
 * The Problem you describe might be solved by a .htaccess file but this can produce
   more problems. Please see Post
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117993/page/2?replies=47#post-623051](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/117993/page/2?replies=47#post-623051)
   for more information and a solution for the admin.
 *  [kevinjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinjo/)
 * (@kevinjo)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-574071)
 * how come when I upload my .htaccess file, it does not shopw up on my file manager,
   I use Cpanel
    I probably uploaded it like 5 times and made like 10 new .htaccess
   file manually on my server, how come its not showing up?
 *  [hakre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hakre/)
 * (@hakre)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-574083)
 * All files starting with a dot (.) are hidden files under linux. Check for an 
   option to display hidden files with cpanel.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-error-2/#post-574083)
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