Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

Question

All I wanted to do today was to write a redirect rule to a subfolder, e.g.: You enter the URL: example.com and you get redirected to example.com/subfolder

Such a simple wish. I tried to find a solution on the internet. The internet told me to add an .htaccess file in the htdocs root with:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ subfolder [L]

I did this. But no success obviously, they didn't told me I had to uncomment the module in httpd.conf:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

So I did this too. No success again. They didn't told me I had to change my httpd.conf so that the .htaccess file would be enabled:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs"
<Directory "c:/Apache24/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Again no success, because I get this error when entering the URL:

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

Now I'm stuck and I couldn't find any more solutions on the internet. I'm just running Apache 2.4 on my Windows 7 machine, for private reasons.

Solution 1

Found my solution thanks to Error with .htaccess and mod_rewrite
For Apache 2.4 and in all *.conf files (e.g. httpd-vhosts.conf, http.conf, httpd-autoindex.conf ..etc) use

Require all granted

instead of

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

The Order and Allow directives are deprecated in Apache 2.4.

Solution 2

WORKING Method { if there is no problem other than configuration }

By Default Appache is not restricting access from ipv4. (common external ip)

What may restrict is the configurations in 'httpd.conf' (or 'apache2.conf' depending on your apache configuration)

Solution:

Replace all:

<Directory />
     AllowOverride none
    Require all denied

</Directory>

with

<Directory />
     AllowOverride none
#    Require all denied

</Directory>

hence removing out all restriction given to Apache

Replace Require local with Require all granted at C:/wamp/www/ directory

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Require all granted
#   Require local
</Directory>

Solution 3

Solution is just simple.

If you are trying to access server using your local IP address and you are getting error saying like Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

Just open your httpd.conf file from (in my case C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.21/conf/httpd.conf)

Search for

<Directory "D:/wamp/www/"> .... ..... </Directory>

Replace Allow from 127.0.0.1

to

Allow from all

Save changes and restart your server.

Now you can access your server using your IP address

Solution 4

The problem lies in https.conf file!

# Virtual hosts
# Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

The error occurs when hash(#) is removed or messed around with. These two lines should appear as shown above.

Solution 5

Found my solution on Apache/2.2.15 (Unix).

And Thanks for answer from @QuantumHive:

First: I finded all

Order allow,deny
Deny from all

instead of

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

and then:

I setted

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#<Directory /var/www/html>
#    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
#    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
#        Order allow,deny
#        Allow from all
#    </Limit>
#    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
#        Order deny,allow
#        Deny from all
#    </LimitExcept>
#</Directory>

Remove the previous "#" annotation to

#
# Control access to UserDir directories.  The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
<Directory /var/www/html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

ps. my WebDir is: /var/www/html

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Comments

[robm]

holy hell, just migrated from centos and i'm super glad i saw this. Thank you!

[Andrew Atkinson]

Damn Deprecation! - Apache error message would have been nice

[sibley]

Thank you! This save my day!

[Ant]

yes, totally aggree with @AndrewAtkinson. years of apache2, and now, same version, different config.

[JumpLink]

Thank you! The default magento 1.9.1 .htaccess used the deprecated way.

[nyxee]

Sorry to ask but where exactly should we put that line?

[haakym]

I'm probably going to leave on work time now thanks to this. Thank you.

[Jonathan Eustace]

Please format your answer.

[Jehan Zeb]

Thanks! In my case it was /etc/apache2/conf-available/security.conf that was denying the access.

[aircraft]

messed around with what?