[SOLVED] Wordpress 403 Problem

pshankland · 08-29-2011, 09:44 AM

Hi, I am hoping someone can help as can't find a fix!

I have just installed a new CentOS 5.6 64Bit server which is fully patched. I have installed the latest version of Wordpress in the default /var/www/html/ location but whenever I goto http://servername/wp-admin/install.php I get the following:

Quote:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/install.php on this server.

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Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at servername Port 80

The following is the process I have followed to complete the WP install:

Code:

==LAMP Install==
yum install httpd
chkconfig httpd on
service httpd start
yum install mysqlserver
chkconfig mysql on
service mysqld start
mysql_secure_installation
yum install php53 php53-mysql

==WP Install==
cd ~/downloads
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO "wp_admin"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "<somepassword>";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
mv wordpress/* /var/www/html/
rmdir wordpress/

I have then gone to http://<servername>/wp-admin/install.php and immediatly get the 403 error

Anyone point me in the right direction as have spent a good few hours with Google!

Pete.

bathory · 08-29-2011, 12:02 PM

Hi,

Since it's centos, I would suspect selinux. You can run:

Code:

chcon -Rv --type=httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html

to fix the permissions and see if it works

Regards

pshankland · 08-30-2011, 06:18 AM

Exactly what the problem was - thanks

XavierP · 08-30-2011, 01:18 PM

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