By sycorax on

hey i get this error. my hosting is done by godaddy.com.

"Forbidden

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

Apache/1.3.33 Server at mysite.com Port 80"

what could be the problem. i tried http://drupal.org/node/30334 but still din work.
please help.

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Is Drupal installed in your web root directory and not in a subdirectory?
Does Drupal's index.php file exist there?

What happens if you browse to http://yoursite.com/index.php ?

Do you also have Drupal's .htaccess file?
Does it contain a DirectoryIndex index.php line?

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sycorax commented

hey i installed drupal with the applications in godaddy. It gave no problems and is working fine.

i got sick of trying the manual installation.

but will it give me any problems in the future through this kind of installation?

thanks anyways for the reply/concern

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

The "future" question is hard to answer because it depend's on how godaddy's installer works.

If they are using Fantastico, for example, there used to be problems with upgrades and people either replaced their installation with a normal Drupal package or stayed with whatever Fantastico was offering, but I am not sure if this is still true. It is a third party installer which evolves.

Someone who is currently using godaddy's installer could have an answer, but in my experience that is rare around here.

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seanray commented

You should install drupal manually as much as possiblea as the one installed by GoDaddy automatically is usually out of date and you have to upgrade it after the installation.

Is there any issue you install manually?

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sycorax’s picture

sycorax commented

well everything is fine except for one thing.

this is the link to my issue- http://drupal.org/node/458702

but i dont think it has to do anything with the version of drupal, or does it??

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spiritkarma commented

I am hosting another domain on my godaddy acct in a subfolder of the root at which there is a drupal installation for the originally hosted site.... in other words I have a site at mysite.com. @ mystite.com/secondsiteroot there is another site hosted. so when i type in mysecondsite.com it should read files from mysite.com/secondsiteroot. I have my drupal at mysite.com's root. When I type in mysecondsite.com I get a "403" at the title bar and a "500" error in the body. to answer all your questions
1) Yes, drupal is installed in the root, not a subdirectory.
2) yes, index.php is there
3) when i goto mysite.com/index.php, it loads my drupal site
4) I have drupals .htaccess file
5) yes, it contains that line of code.

Secondly, I am planning on installing drupal @ mysite.com/secondsiteroot . Will this work? so when I go to mysecondsite.com I will get a completely different drupal home (of course with different mysql DB, etc.).

Thanks again!
(I have playing around with this code:

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

Order allow,deny

that is from the .htaccess, and it would seem that's what I want to edit... but I just want to allow my one root directory for my second site's root. what syntax should I use? I have guessed and tried a couple things, but to no avail...

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Your secondsite.com which is located under drupal's directory should work fine without any change to .htaccess if it is a php site (for example another drupal site).

If it is an html site, then it will need an index.html file and also a DirectoryIndex index.html line in a .htaccess file.

If the second site's directory is empty or it does not contain the specified index file, it is natural to get a "404: Page not found" from Drupal or a "403: Access denied" from Apache.

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spiritkarma commented

Your comment which is located directly above this one, in this thread, is exactly the solution for anyone in the same predicament that I was formerly in. A VERY Big Thank YOU!
I now have the answer for my current html version and the future drupal version!
Thank You very much.

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

See also http://drupal.org/node/328155, the description at the beginning. That change will be in Drupal 7 and will make it unnecessary to change the DirectoryIndex in subdirectories.