http://sn.1w6.org/file/mk-20150930T174314-25xyft4.html
I just cleverly painted myself into a corner when trying to set permissions for some files #WordPress wants (preferably) write access for - and managed to get the system into a state where I no longer hadaccess (from the browser) to ANY file or directory for WordPress. Turns out .htaccess needs to be world-readable. Duh. Yes, of course. *sigh* #programming #htaccess