Error 403 - Forbidden when I try to access my admin page

[MitchelRl]

I just installed Milestone 2.2 and it went fairly well considerring this is my first shot at E-Commerce.

well, the page that's viewed by the public works fine, I've poked around and it's stable, no errors.

I searched for this error on this site, ran a google search, and I didn't find anything that was really of some help. So here's my problem

When I go to the catalog/admin/ or admin/index.php it gives me a 403 Forbidden error on whatever i try to access within that folder. I know this most likely has something to do with me setting permissions, but I'm just not entirely sure on what I need to be looking for. This is 2.2 Milestone on an Ipowerweb Apache server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mitchel

[dno]

It sounds like a problem with file/folder permission access.

If you have access to the control panel of your host. yourdomain.com/cpanel or there are others (depends on host)
then go in password protect directories and you can change the permissions there.

look in to .htaccess as well.

[michael_s]

This can also mean that you have indexing turned off, and are missing the index.php from the DirectoryIndex statement.

First, chmod your directory to 755 or 777 depending on your setup, and make sure the files are chmodded to at least 644 (in the main dir) If that doesnt fix it, you can create a .htaccess file with :

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

That should take care of the problem...