I'm in a lot of trouble!

[Barks]

I have just wiped the contents off a server of a client website and immediately re-uploaded the website from Dreamweaver via FTP.

It now says from the browser:

"Error 403: Permission denied/HTAccess Error"

Any ideas how to fix this? Would be really grateful.

 

[Barks]

I don't know what the hell is going on but I fixed it by creating a .htaccess file using Textedit and typing in "DirectoryIndex index.html"

 

[Barks]

My guess is that the permissions are wrong, now I believe you may be able to change the permissions of the files via FTP however you may need to come up with an .htaccess file.

Google may be able to help you, but without knowing every single file I'm pretty unsure that we'll be able to help you.
What kind of files were on the server?

It's a very basic HTML/CSS based website.

There's an index.html on the root.
All the sub pages are in a pages folder, PDF documents in a documents folder, CSS in a CSS folder etc.