[support] Drupal .htaccess blocks access to domain in subfolder

[Morbus Iff]

> I'm trying to set up a Drupal site in a subfolder on my shared hosting 
> account as it's own domain, and for reasons I can't understand, I get a 
> 403 - Permission Denied error when I try to access it.  I have a D5 site 
> in my /public_html directory (www.mydomain.com), and the new site is a 
> D6 site in /public_html/domain2 (www.domain2.org is using that folder).  
> The name servers for domain2.org are pointed to the correct name 
> servers, and I've added the domain as an addon domain on my account. 
> 
> I contacted my ISP, and they said the problem is the .htaccess in 
> /public_html.  If it is renamed (i.e. to .htaccessold), then I can 

Did they provide any /technical/ rationale for that explanation? That 
rationale, or the actual error from the Apache error_log would help.

I see no reason why the above wouldn't work.

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