Forbidden : You don't have permissions to access / on this server !

Posted on November 4, 2014

I previously had this error : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/posts-not-found-on-server After following one of the answers I getting this error on accessing my website

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at 128.199.62.70 Port 80

Please help I can’t access any post , page , Wordpress dashboard !

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rpen

January 9, 2016

I have modified 000-default.conf and it looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html
	ServerName 46.101.165.116
 	
	<Directory /var/www/signature/>
       AllowOverride All
       </Directory>

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

and I ran the sudo commands but still I can’t access /var/www/signature/ through the browser: http://46.101.165.116/var/www/signature

Any idea what could go wrong?