phpBB Problem!

ParLawGod · 03-08-2006, 06:40 AM

Hi - I am currently experiencing problems with my phpBB forum (http://www.alftv.net/forum). When I try posting or sending a private message I get this message quite often - the top left of the screen says "403 Forbidden". I get this problem with the posting.php file and the private messaging file as well.

Quote:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forum//posting.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.alftv.net Port 80

I e-mailed the hosting company and they have not done anything to update the server that would cause this to happen - nor have I done any updating to the forum (since I know very little about this kind of thing). Reinstalling the forum did not solve the problem at all. Does anyone have any ideas on this one? The only thing I can think of is updating my version of phpBB but I honestly have no idea how to do that (even the directions confuse the heck out of me). I would appreciate any suggestions I could get - thanks!

Mong · 03-08-2006, 06:55 AM

Do you have backup for privmsg.php and posting.php files when they were working right?

Kalina · 03-08-2006, 06:57 AM

Why are there 2 " // " in the url?

"/forum//posting.php"

That could be your problem if that's the actual error.

ParLawGod · 03-08-2006, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Do you have backup for privmsg.php and posting.php files when they were working right?

Yep - I uploaded the old ones about a week ago and it didn't solve the problem.

Mong · 03-11-2006, 12:41 AM

Probably you have to figure out why there is double "//" in error message.

WorldwideTrading · 03-11-2006, 04:02 AM

It sounds like the permissions are incorrect.

There is an article here about it http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=22

There are a number of files that require chmodded in phpBB to work correctly:

config.php: Chmod this to 777 BEFORE you start the install process. Once install is complete, chmod it back to 644.

By Default, All PHP Files should be chmod 644

/images/avatars: This is a folder that you have to chmod. This is so that, if you choose to enable avatar uploading, they can be uploaded properly. This folder must be chmodded to 777.

The easiest no fail way is to reinstall.
1) Backup your site.
2) Reinstall PHPBB
3) Restore the backup. If im right the filepermissions will stay in tact and it should start to work again.