By Ricky on

Hello,

I tried to install drupal from cpanel installer,
You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

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

I had searched Drupal support forum prior to asking here and found that so many had faced the same problem but unable to solve it, although there is quite a good discussion but unable to solve..

I mean there is no ultimate solution.. even people don't even know exact cause of it!
I have 2 servers, on one I installed drupal and it was installed but on another one (where i have to use it) it is giving above told errror.

Can anyone tell me its cause.. i will solve it or to .. just give me hint or reason..

BTw.. Solution is what I want..

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Ricky’s picture

Ricky commented

Hello..

while i was doing experiments with .htaccess I found that disabling options FollowSymlinks resulted in success..
Now my drupal is runnnig but now I think i Have to learn a lot to use it.. its too much ODD !!

Paul Iliano’s picture

Paul Iliano commented

Adding a + sign in front of FollwSymlinks does the trick; better than disabling.

I offered this solution here:
http://drupal.org/node/11158#comment-17663

Dries has added the + sign in Drupal 4.5.