If your running across this error in your error logs, there may be a simple solution for you.

This 403 error is usually caused by having AllowOverride set to All.

You can either fix this by Chmod’ding all your files to 644 (not very elegant) or paste the following into your apache conf file, replacing your “AllowOverride all” rule:

AllowOverride none
Order deny,allow
Allow from none

Just a quick tip, but hope this can save you some time!