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#13594 Home menu gives 403 forbidden error

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:36 CDT

klementz2
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (1.5.26)
PHP version: (5.3.10)
MySQL version: (5.1.63-cll)
Host: (Host Papa)
Admin Tools version: (2.2.10)

Description of my issue:

When clicking the Home menu item, the site throws a 403 - Forbidden error. Clicking the Home menu leads to this URL: www.prohungdoors.com/home/

I have tried all sorts of things in the exceptions area, and currently have the following as a custom rule (top of file):
RewriteRule ^home$ http://www.prohungdoors.com/ [R=301,L]


I also went to the URL redirection and added "home/" > "/".

No luck. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Whoops: I also had the URL redirection with the full http://... etc, and I added the one above, but left the original. So, I just went and deleted the URL redirection that had http://www.etc. and now it works!

Still, curious why the RewriteRule I added to the custom section does not work?

Thanks for an outstanding product.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Well, three questions:
a. do you have a directory named "home" in your site's root? If you do then Apache will try to display the contents of that directory to your visitors and this does create a huge problem, because Admin Tools' .htaccess forbids listing the contents of random directories of your site.
b. do you have a menu item with an alias of "home"? If not, Joomla! will never be able to resolve that URL for you.
c. If you replied No and Yes to the previous two question respectively, does the home menu item have an access level of public?

My guess is that the problem is that you have a directory named "home" inside your site's root.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
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klementz2
Your guess is spot on. Somehow, there is a directory called "home" on the site. Not sure how it got there, but that is the problem.

Thanks

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I'm glad I could help solving that weird issue :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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