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The message HTTP 403 "Forbidden" when accessing your home page is caused by file system permissions. Even though all users should have Read permission to for the directories and files that you have created in your public_html directory there may be a problem with the permissions because the documents are depending on when the files were created in the home directory.

To make your pages visible to others, you have to must modify the permissions so that other users have read permissions to your Read permission for the files and directories.

You can modify the permissions either on a Windows workstation or in a Linux environment. When done correctly, the settings made in the Windows environment affect also the new files that you have created in the public_html directory. If you set the permissions in a Linunx environment, you must set them right every time you create new files.

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