403 Permission Denied

I keep getting this error when I click on the posts and some images. is it related to cache plugins?

this is what I get..

You do not have permission for this request /wee-o-fighting-for-feat-morgan-karr-tiesto-edit-trailer/

You don’t have permission to access /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Quintino-Sandro-Silva-–-Aftermath-Review1-e1434933753361.jpg on this server.

Any idea guys ?

whats the permissions should be? it shows 755 for wp-content folder… ?

Try to avoid high ASCII characters in file names, most web servers can’t understand them. In your example you have a filename with broken ASCII character not “escaped” properly when you named it prior to upload; so technically you’re trying to access a file the server can’t read properly.

File names on servers should have
a) no spaces
b) no multiple dots
c) ideally end in dimensions for modern systems like mod_pagespeed, thumbnail regen, etc.
d) no high ascii characters like tildes, degree marks, question marks, percentage sign, etc. (basically letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens and nothing else).

So, this is your problem — fix your file names: (note broken ASCII character encoding after Silva) —
Quintino-Sandro-Silva-–-Aftermath-Review1-e1434933753361.jpg

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

I deleted the jpg and named it really short but still image doesn’t appear and I get 403 errors still when I click the other links.

would you take a look please?

http://www.tinyedm.com/quintino-sandro-silva-aftermath-review/

I deleted the jpg and named it really short but still image doesn’t appear and I get 403 errors still when I click the other links.

would you take a look please?

http://www.tinyedm.com/quintino-sandro-silva-aftermath-review/
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Likely good time to talk to your hosting provider to check your “ownership permissions” for your setup of your account, folders, etc. — you can also do this via FTP. If you have a mis-match on who “owns” the files being uploaded via WP, if they are not in a publicly visible folder, they won’t load for the public.

I have seen odd things happen when WordPress installed from the hosting panel vs manual install, where some directories and upload folders end up “owned” by the server, or apache, or whatever and not the ftpuser.

You might also do a clean install of WP if your folders and permissions are just completely messed up; the theme doesn’t set write permissions on your WP setup.

You can can also try updating your permalinks; check your wp-config.php file for errors; try resetting your plugin folder by renaming it via FTP, etc.

Right now your style sheet isn’t even loading for your page.

Obviously you should have all caching, mod_pagespeed and similar things turned off. Use the main theme and not child theme, make sure you can even login properly, create new post, upload images, set featured images, upload file, check URL and make sure it can be loaded via browser alone, etc.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Thnx Chris, I talked to the hosting provider and they addressed the issue. there was a code added to .htaccess from All in one seo plugin. I was enabled the bad bot blocker feature and the code was causing the trouble that’s what I was told.

thank you guys for ur time anyway!