Changing redirects "403 forbidden"

All I’m trying to do is remove a redirect that I placed on my account and I’m getting this error -

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /panel/indexpl.php on this server.

Anyone have any idea why I suddenly dont have permission to make changes on my own website?

Which account?

Next time, can you please fill in the topic template? It saves us from having to go back and forth for basic information like this.

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I just tried to remove the redirect on that account and was able to do so without any problems.

I still can’t access it.

I just tried to reapply a different redirect and got the same error -

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /panel/indexpl.php on this server.

trying to apply this redirect -

Can you please provide further guidance, I still don’t have permission to make changes on my own account.

The Redirects tool is a bit picky about the URLs being used.

But all the Redirects tool does is generate some .htaccess rules, so it’s not hard to do it by hand.

In the file manager → htdocs, you can edit the file .htaccess. In that file, you can add a line like this:

Redirect / https://wrecket.github.io/grandmascookbook.co.uk/

This will also redirect your website.

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I can’t access the htdocs, it gives me “Error during FTP upload, permission denied”

What do you mean by “can’t access the htdocs”? htdocs is a folder, but your error message indicates an upload fails.

Or do you mean the .htaccess file? If so, which file are you editing? The one that says DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY at the top of the file? Because you cannot edit that file.

Like it says in that file and I wrote in my previous post, you need to edit the .htaccess file which is in your htdocs folder.

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I apologise,

I read this on mobile and must have missread. I’ve done as you stated and it appears to have worked - thank you.

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