Hi! I am getting the following error on my Wordpress blog. I have posted before and it has worked:

Forbidden

 You don't have permission to access /news/wp-admin/page.php on this server. 
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Thanks!

That's a problem with permissions on your server, not on the blog program.

If you have an FTP program, connect to the server and CHMOD the folder containing the Wordpress blog to 777.

Could you tell me what I should type?

Do you not have a graphical FTP program like Filezilla? Just right click on the folder and click File Attributes or whatever, and that should be one of the options. There should be a place to type in a number, and a 3x3 box on check boxes.

If you don't I recommend using net2FTP for the short term. It is very easy to use and doesn't involve you downloading anything to use it

Thanks, but that still did not work. Any other ideas?

You are sure you have changed the access permissions from omething like 644, to 777?

If things still aren't working, there may be an entry in the .htaccess file that is preventing this access. .htaccess is in the public_html folder and Wordpress does sometimes have problems accessing this and working with it - an example being that I had to modify my .htaccess file to be able to change the format of permalinks.

I'm no expert on the .htaccess file though, but I think this could potentially be causing the problems if there are entries in this somehow restricting access to files

Thanks, I will try that. What could have changed though? I posted one day just fine and then the next day the first thing I noticed was that it saved the draft once (I think) then it just kept saying Saving draft... and when I posted I got the error. Does wordpress modify file permissions?

It shouldn't do. If you have changed the domain/permalink structure recently, that might be a possible problem and that involves the .htaccess file.

Here's the code you may need to add to the .htaccess file if it or something similar is not already there:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Also try deleting everything if there is the above in the file and it's not working.

ALSO (yes a lot of also's ), try deleting the .htaccess file if the 2 things I mentioned don't work and make a new one immediately named .htaccess of course and leave it blank. If this don't make a new .htaccess file, I think you encounter a 500 error on the site and it doesn't work, so be careful.

Hope this all helps,
Dan
(Talkupation appreciated )

Well, I can't post that post I was going to, but now I can post other stuff... Thanks!