Error when posting on my forums

[dibiase1992]

Hello, i recently set up forums and i keep getting an error. ive tried it with 2 types of forums(SMF, and vBulletin).

I Always Get:

Forbidden

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


or


Forbidden

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


whats the problem?

[garrettroyce]

With a fresh install of any forum, the file permissions should be good. Did you mess with the .htaccess file? Did you use the correct file path when setting up the forum (ie. "home/username/public_html" and not "/")? Did you chmod your public_html to a different setting?

I can't think of many reasons that this would happen.

[CWebguy]

If it's a permissions thing, try changing your file permissions and see if that helps.

[Derek]

CHMOD the index to 755 and newthread or w/e.

[dibiase1992]

the chmod is fine, i made sure it was correct and it is

[CWebguy]

maybe it is the filepath, have you checked the settings?