Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

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user3692451 picture user3692451 · Aug 31, 2015 · Viewed 88.2k times · Source

Right now I'm getting this message in a single site of my whole reseller account: Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server. Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It happened all of a sudden. I tried renaming the root htaccess to anything else, and the error is still there, I even tried setting up 744 permissions to the file, still the same thing. Currently the file is using the default files permissions, 644. The error is ocuring at: http://lucrebem.com.br

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user3692451 picture user3692451 · Aug 31, 2015

So the problem was that the public_html folder changed permissions to 744, but I never changed it. I solved it changed the permissions to 750. But how do I see the logs??? Because I never did a change on that folder, I'm afraid it might have been an attack.

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