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hughes
Asked: 2011-06-18 07:07:35 +0800 CST

Why would an .htaccess file result in 403 Forbidden when the only line is "Allow from all"?

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I'm running a server: 

Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g

Without a .htaccess file, everyone can access the web content. However, I add a .htaccess file with the following content:

Allow from all

... and everyone gets 403 Forbidden errors on every page! The permissions on .htaccess are 640. Shouldn't Allow from all be the same as having no .htaccess file? What have I done wrong?

edit: same behaviour with the following .htaccess file:

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all

Again, with no .htaccess file everything loads without a problem.

ubuntu apache-2.2 .htaccess http-status-code-403

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
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  2. For me, the problem was indeed file permissions as per Itamake's comment, so I fixed it with:

    chmod -R 755 *
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