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

Answer 1

I use Mac OS X, in my case, I just forget to enable php in apache, all I need to do is to uncomment one line from /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

ref this article for detail.

Answer 2

Just to bring another contribution as I ran to this problem too:

I had a VirtualHost configured that I did not want to. I have commented out the line where the include for the vhost occured, and it worked.

Answer 3

I know this question has several answers already, but I think there is a very subtle aspect that, although mentioned, hasn't been highlighted enough in the previous answers.

Before checking the Apache configuration or your files' permissions, let's do a simpler check to make sure that each of the directories composing the full path to the file you want to access (e.g. the index.php file in your document's root) is not only readable but also executable by the web server user.

For example, let's say the path to your documents root is "/var/www/html". You have to make sure that all of the "var", "www" and "html" directories are (readable and) executable by the web server user. In my case (Ubuntu 16.04) I had mistakenly removed the "x" flag to the "others" group from the "html" directory so the permissions looked like this:

drwxr-xr-- 15 root root 4096 Jun 11 16:40 html

As you can see the web server user (to whom the "others" permissions apply in this case) didn't have execute access to the "html" directory, and this was exactly the root of the problem. After issuing a:

chmod o+x html

command, the problem got fixed!

Before resolving this way I had literally tried every other suggestion in this thread, and since the suggestion was buried in a comment that I found almost by chance, I think it may be helpful to highlight and expand on it here.

Answer 4

I had this issue when using SSHFS to mount the files in my VirtualBox guest from my local filesystem before running a docker build. In the end, the "fix" was to copy all the files to the VirtualBox instance rather than building from inside the SSHFS mount, and then run the build from there.

Answer 5

You can change youralias.conf file like this code:

Alias /Quiz/ "h:/MyServer/Quiz/" 
 <Directory "h:/MyServer/Quiz/">
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride all
   <IfDefine APACHE24>
     Require local
   </IfDefine>
   <IfDefine !APACHE24>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from localhost ::1 127.0.0.1
   </IfDefine>
 </Directory>

Answer 6

This is pretty ridiculous, but I got the 403 Forbidden when the file I was trying to download wasn't there on the filesystem. The apache error is not very accurate in this case, and the whole thing worked after I simply put the file where it was supposed to be.