Title: Permissions problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permissions problems

 *  Resolved [andymatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymatthews/)
 * (@andymatthews)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-problems-2/)
 * I seem to have screwed up my site after trying to sort out the following issue
   with WP Super Cache.
 * I got the following message so tried to edit the permissions on my site.
 * _Warning! /home/andym/public\_html/blog/wp-content is writeable!_
 * You should change the permissions on /home/andym/public_html/blog/wp-content 
   and make it more restrictive. Use your ftp client, or the following command to
   fix things:
 * chmod 755 /home/andym/public_html/blog/wp-content/
 * So after doing this I’ve been unable to get into my [blog](http://andy-matthews.co.uk/blog/)
   with the following error.
 * _Forbidden_
 * You don’t have permission to access /blog/ on this server.
 * The Wp-Content folder is at 775 as are all the sub-folders. I’m at a loss as 
   to why this won’t let me in. I’ve removed the Wp-Cache plugin and taken out the
   sections from the .htaccess file.
 * Really worried I’ve lost all my posts since 2007. Any help would be most appreciated.
   Can I simply re-install the software on the server and add the content back?
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [andymatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymatthews/)
 * (@andymatthews)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-problems-2/#post-1496446)
 * Sorry, problem resolved. Managed to change higher permission on /blog folder 
   to 754 by accident. Changed back to 755 and all sorted.

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 * [403 Forbidden](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/403-forbidden/)
 * [permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permissions/)
 * [problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/problem/)

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 * Last reply from: [andymatthews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymatthews/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-problems-2/#post-1496446)
 * Status: resolved

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