I can log in just fine but when I type the IP address into Chrome to see my website it keeps saying:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at 45.55.16.114 Port 80
It was working a few days ago and I don’t know what I did to it. Anyone know what I did wrong?
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The first step would be to check Apache’s error log for any information on the error:
sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
That should list the last few lines of the file. Is there anything useful in there?
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