you dont have permission to access /cgi-bin/forum/blah.pl on this server.

Since January the forum has been working perfectly. Today you get this error page when you use quote, new thread, or in member Center, In Admin you cannot put the forum in maintenance mode of change other settings in the forum. Everyone can post in existing threads and send PM's.

Any ideas no one had touched the permissions or files.

I should check the permissions anyway... usually servers are set up to reboot automatically each day, sometimes - although rarely this can cause permissions to reset to a default.  Set the forums directory to 777 - see if that helps.

Dave

755 first. only set to 777 if you get errors. but 777 isn't as safe as 755.

777 is ok... a lot of people think it gives people access to your FTP server, which it doesn't - you need a password and user id for that.

If you set it to 777 - and it works - it's obvious then that it is a permission issue.  you can then change it to 755 and if it still works that's ok too.

if the application doesn't have a script to allow ALL write permissions then setting it to 777 won't make any difference and it doesn't effect the security of your server.

All permissions were set correctly and i even tried changing them to 777 it made no difference. It must have been a server issue as I gave up after hours of trying different things and nothing worked. Woke up the next morning and all was good again.

Thanks for your responses.

Glad you got it sorted.