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Error 403 - Forbidden after migrating site


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wroof

Community Member, 6 Posts

27 January 2015 at 12:16pm

Good afternoon all,

I have been given the task of moving our site from its current hosting to goDaddy. The site is using silverstripe.

I have never really had much to do with web design or web hosting so this is a chance for me to learn. Currently I have an export of the site and the database and I have followed the instructions I have been able to find online. So far I have got the new database set up with the same user/pass and moved the files from the site backup to the new domain.

Folders moved:
assets
blog
cms
framework
googlesitemaps
gridfieldbulkeditingtools
musicsystems-csvsplit
mysite
sitemap
sitequicklinks
sortablegridfield
themes
userforms
widgets

Files moved:
.htaccess
_ss_environment.php
favicon.ico
robots.txt

I have then changed the ss_Database_Server in the _ss_environment.php file to the new server ip and port.

Once all of this is done I get a 403 forbidden error when I try and go to the site. I also get this error if I delete all of the files and then do a fresh install of silverstripe.

Any help from anyone would be a great help.

Thanks