Can’t bring up website. I receive the following error Forbidden “You don’t have permission to access / on this server. Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe”
I have a LAMP droplet install with Ubuntu 16.04. I was having trouble transferring files using SFTP thru a client and SSH in and changed the sudo user permission to 766. Now after transferring files I get the forbidden access error.
I tried to find the apache error log file under /var/log but couldn’t see one I ran the following command in the var/www/html# ls -la and the output shows
drwxrw-rw- 3 [sudouser] [sudouser] 4096 Aug 15 23:47 . drwxrwxr-x 3 [sudouser] [sudouser] 4096 Jan 15 2018 … -rwxrw-rw- 1 [sudouser] [sudouser] 1324 Jan 15 2018 index.html -rwxrw-rw- 1 [sudouser] [sudouser] 20 Jan 15 2018 info.php drwxrwxr-x 8 [sudouser] [sudouser] 4096 Aug 15 23:48 wais
Do I need to change the permissions again? Not sure what command to execute. Help!
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I also faced same issue but now it solved for me. Thank you for the help.
Hello friend!
Try this: chown -R www-data. /var/www
Apache will run as the www-data user by default, which will not have permission to access the files from the user that you have created.
Kind Regards, Jarland
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