Error message “Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server” [closed]

Answer 1

If you are using CentOS with SELinux Try:

sudo restorecon -r /var/www/html

See more: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6834#p31548

Answer 2

I ran into this problem, and my solution was moreso that www-data didn't own the proper folders, and instead I set it for one of the users to own it. (I was trying to do a bit of fancy, but erroneous trickery to get ftp to play nicely.)

After running:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

The machine started serving data again. You can see who currently owns the folder by means of

ls -l /var/www/html

Answer 3

I was getting the same error and couldn't figure out the problem for ages. If you happen to be on a Linux distribution that includes SELinux such as CentOS, you need to make sure SELinux permissions are set correctly for your document root files or you will get this error. This is a completely different set of permissions to the standard file system permissions.

I happened to use the tutorial Apache and SELinux, but there seems to be plenty around once you know what to look for.

Answer 4

Try this and don't add anything Order allow,deny and others:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py 
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Require all granted
    Allow from all
</Directory>

 

sudo a2enmod cgi
sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 5

WORKING Method (unless there is no other problem)

By default, Apache is not restricting access from IPv4 (common external IP address)

What are restricted are the commands given in 'httpd.conf'.

Replace all

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

with

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    # Require all denied
</Directory>

hence removing out all restriction given to Apache.

Replace Require local with Require all granted for the C:/wamp/www/ directory.

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Require all granted
    # Require local
</Directory>

Answer 6

I had the same issue for a specific controller only - which was really weird. I had a folder in the root of the CI folder that had the same name as the controller I was trying to access... Because of that, CI was directing the request to this directory instead of the controller itself.

After removing this folder (which was there a bit by mistake), it all worked fine.

To be more clear, here is what it looked like:

/ci/controller/register.php

/ci/register/

I had to remove /ci/register/.