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Forbidden Error after ssh transfer from plesk to cpanel

I moved several WordPress install from a server that is running Plesk to one that is running WHM/cPanel. After the move I am unable to access the site. I get:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

I also get:

403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I have checked all the permissions and owners but everything seems to be fine but still nothing is working. I am not sure what to do now.

My process for transferring the site was to tar httpdocs using ssh to connect to the Plesk server then I replaced the public_html directory with the contents of the httpdocs.tar.gz on the cPanel server.

What did I do wrong?

Solution

  • The group needed to be changed on the public_html file to "nobody". The group was still set as the set group in Plesk.

    chown owner:group folder