This week i ran into a problem after deploying a feature in SharePoint. I ran the stdadm command to install and activate a feature, the command returned without any errors so i thought everything was ok. When i tried to open up SharePoint in the browser all the pages gave a "403 forbidden" error

My first thoughts where that there was something wrong with the feature but this couldn't be the case because this feature was installed on multiple envoirments and they were all working ok.

After some research i found out that SharePoint didnt have enough rights in the feature directory in "program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\templates\features\$feature name dir"

This error can occur when you manually create a directory in the "features" directory of SharePoint. You can easily fix it by right clicking the folder, click properties, security and then Advanced. On the permissions tab delete the "Uninhereted permissions from the folder". Another option is to manually give the right users the rights to the directory.

Geert van der Cruijsen