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Netmoon
Asked: 2013-11-14 22:52:13 +0800 CST

403 forbidden error for all local projects after updating php and apache

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I have 5 web app projects in my local machine with Ubuntu 12.04 installed on it. Everything was good, but today when I started a new project with symphony, I found that I should upgrade php to 5.4.x, so I did it and upgraded to apache2 too. After these updates I restarted my PC [for some reasons] and now I see a 403 forbidden page (from apache2 web-server) for all of my projects.
I didn't change permissions or the Apache virtual host configuration, nothing and nothing. Just after restart I see 403 forbidden!

  • I'm beginner in Ubuntu so if you want any information about users, groups, or... please say how can I find it for you, thanks
  • I tried to change the whole web-root directory permission to 777 and change user:group to www-data or root, but nothing happened.
  • APACHE 2.4.6
    PHP 5.5.5-1
  • example, this is the thenetmoon project and it was done with symfony, but apache can't access the web folder :

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12.04

1 Answers

  1. finally I found what happened. after reading about apache 2.4.*, I have changed APACHE Configuration file. so I added this line in <Directory> scope:
    Require all granted
    and after that, sudo service apache2 restart , and now everything goes fine.

    Here is the Apache documentation relevant for this fix: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access

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