Rescue Me Please: 403 access denied on my css & js files, possibly due to limited knowledge of .htaccess

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[quote author="noideawhattotypehere" date="1386597238"]You should not put any public files under application directory. Its protected with htaccess and index.html files for a reason[/quote]

Thank you for the important tip, that changes everything.