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

  • Posted 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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Popsana Barida • September 1, 2017

Open /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Look for the line that says

<Directory /var/www/html>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride All
	Require all granted
</Directory>

and change it to

<Directory /var/www>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride All
	Require all granted
</Directory>

That should fix it.

prsdd9 • June 4, 2019

Great.I was wasted many hours but not got any luck. Here I got soln… here only. Thanks Mr. mhktricks

This digitalocean helping me alog. great work

mhktricks • November 4, 2014

I found the solution ! Just add these lines

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

on this file sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf & then sudo a2enmod rewrite & then sudo service apache2 restart

Thanks !

leccher • January 17, 2020

Keep attention. Apache 2.2 “Allow from all” Apache 2.4 “Require all granted”

SagarKapasi099 • November 22, 2019

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Require all granted Allow from all

Use These Options Inside “Directory Tag”

Worked For Me.

asifkc • December 24, 2018

could not help

asifkc • December 24, 2018

yes

penyo0101 • September 14, 2018
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Krishna Gupta • October 6, 2016

It did not work for me. Please help

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?