Instead of that, i decided to tackle it from the other side.
Using the file and directory comparison facility within TextWrangler i ran a compare of my install vs the stock. The only differences were those relating to the specific settings of my board...
I ran through the install steps and checked (and verified) all of the directory and file permissions and they too all checked out.
I'm now thinking that it must be something in the filesystem set-up that is different after the "move". The problem i have is i dont have a full filesystem backup of the site prior to it being relocated (by my hosting company) into their cloud server. And that leads me back to the .htaccess file that perhaps should be present under the ubbthreads7 folder?
When you go to my site (hcmaces.com) it puts you at
http://www.hcmaces.com/forums/ubbthreads7/ubbthreads.php - everything hangs under the ubbthreads7 directory. Oddly that is also the URL that is left in the browser window when you get the "forbidden" error???
[Edit]
Looking at my master settings, both my Full URL to Main Directory and my Relative URL to main directory are the same. Is that right?
Full URL is
http://www.hcmaces.com/forums/ubbthreads7Relative URL is
http://www.hcmaces.com/forums/ubbthreads7For a test, i amended the related URL to ve /forums/ubbthreads7 however this resulted in a catastrophic fail! Thank heavens i'd taken a backup of the config.inc.php and was able to restore it!!
Does anybody have any straws i can clutch
