Hi, Tim

Not being familiar with how to configure my htaccess file, can anyone tell me, simply, how I can allow general access to a directory I have set up myself, which has nothing to do with my Drupal installation, but which is currently giving a '403' error when access is attempted.

Try to put the line below:

ErrorDocument 403 /errors/error403.php

in your .htaccess file

where /errors/ - path to "error" directory. and error403.php is your file with explanation.

Hope this helps.

Best, Kirill

Web-developer, E3internet.com