HTACCESS issue won't allow me to edit content

hi there i am very new and am having one prob

when i am in the content manager i want to update my home page. i can update all the other pages but when i update the home page with any content this is what i get:


Error 403: Forbidden

You don’t have permissions to access this page. This usually means one of the following:

* this file and directory permissions make them unavailable from the Internet.
* .htaccess contains instructions that prevent public access to this file or directory.

Please check file and directory permissions and .htaccess configuration if you are able to do this. Otherwise, request your webmaster to grant you access.


My response:

I went into my file manager and made sure this was writable
this didn’t help
then i looked on the net and played with various URL friendly options but i couldn’t find anything that specifically addressed the problem

i am using UNIX server.

it’s probably not a big problem but i’m a bit lost and would appreciate any help i can get

That’s very odd. Do you perhaps have an index.html file in your www directory (or another file with the same name as your home page alias)? Are you using the default MODx .htaccess file?

Your "home" page is usually a document with the ID of 1. Are you actually working with the correct document? It sounds like you are using a physical file instead of a MODx document here.

i do have another file index.htm so perhaps i need to remove this then first. i will remove that and see if it makes a difference.

thank you for your advice

Most servers are configured to look for .htm and/or .html, then .php in that order.

i removed the index.htm file but i still get the error.

any other suggestions???

Try putting this in your main .htaccess file, just before the RewriteEngine ON line:



Can you edit/save anything else?

hi

i can edit every other page but the home page it’s really odd.

i removed the index.htm file too

i added the script to the .htaccess page and got nothing same error

all other pages work fine
but home page default just won’t let me save anything i edits??

Could you supply some sample URLs of documents you CAN edit and the one you can’t? Also, are you trying to edit a document within the MODx manager, or are you trying to physically edit a document that is located on your webserver?