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Hello all,

I've been stuck on this all day, and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction...

I have been following the installation instructions, making a clean new install on a remote host.

I am able to start the installation, but after step 1 [Check your installation] where it allows you to check the integrity of the files, I get the following error.

403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /overthehill/install/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at www.[myhost] Port 80


I have tried every variation of changing the correct permissions to no avail. Any help / pointers would be appreciated  :)

CMSMS 1.5.4; PHP Version 4.4.8; Safe mode = off; No .htaccess files in this directory;

You shoudl check the permissions/owners of that directory.. and paste the apache errorlog here(just the last few lines..)

Regards

G

Strangely enough, your comment was very useful. After looking at the logs I noticed another set of server logs provided by my host which pointed out the problem. I have sorted this issue, but I am putting this up in case anyone else has this issue...

[Sun Jun 14 15:34:52 2009] [error] [client x.x.x.x] mod_security: Access denied with code 403. read_post_payload: Failed to create file "/home/user/tmp/20090614-153452-x.x.x.x-request_body-PArE5e" because 13("Permission denied") [severity "EMERGENCY"] [hostname "www.[myhost]"] [uri "/overthehill/install/index.php"] [unique_id "SjVQ3MwPCRXAAAZhZ3M"]

The installer tried to write to the ~/tmp directory in my homedir. I already had a tmp directory that I had set permissions to 700. This gave the above error.

To sort this out, just change the permissions of the tmp directory on your homedrive to something like 777. 

Great!

mod_security always cause strange things.. I hate it.