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How I can sovle "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server" error?

Posted July 19, 2014 10.4k views

Hey. I wanted configure Apache and Nginx for working Ghost blog. For do it, I used this DigitalOcean article . When I changed sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf I get Forbidden error. I tried o return file content, but problem remained.

Please help me.

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kamaln7 July 19, 2014

Do you have an index file in your DocumentRoot? What are the last few lines of Apache’s error log?

sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
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  • pest93 July 19, 2014

    This is my log. What can I do it?

    [Sat Jul 19 19:24:26 2014] [error] [client 5.255.253.165] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/webserver/
[Sat Jul 19 19:24:26 2014] [error] [client 5.255.253.165] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/webserver/
[Sat Jul 19 19:25:35 2014] [error] [client 213.180.206.205] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/webserver/
[Sat Jul 19 19:26:06 2014] [error] [client 199.80.59.174] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/webserver/
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asb July 21, 2014

Do you have an .htaccess file in the directory /home/webserver/? If not, check your /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Somewhere in your configuration you seem to have set:

Options -Indexes

You need to change that to:

Options +Indexes
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