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403 Forbidden error in django app hosting on apache

Posted on July 4, 2020

firstly i was facing this error operatonal error randomly database write

but when i fixed this error by these commands chmod 664 ~/myproject/db.sqlite3 sudo chown :www-data ~/myproject/db.sqlite3 sudo chown :www-data ~/myproject

then i got this error Forbidden You don’t have permission to access this resource.

please help me



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Hi @akshaykoshti401,

Apache usually searches for an index.html, index.php, index.htm files in the WebRoot of the website you are loading. If it can’t find any, it will throw the 403 forbidden error.

Depending on the initial file your website should load, you can edit the website’s vhost file. In your vhost file, you’ll find a line that would look something like that

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

Add the first file your website should load right after DirectoryIndex and restart Apache.

service apache2 restart

Regards, KFSys

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