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Because of the file system permissions, the user gets the warning HTTP 403 "Forbidden" when accessing your home page. Even though all users should have Read permission to 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 created in the directory.

To make your home page pages visible to others, you have to give modify the permissions so that other users have read permissions to your home directory 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.

Here is how to change the public_html folder permissions to give others access to your home page.

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