You don't have permission to access /pub/static/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/Magento_Checkout/template/minicart/content.html on this server

Question

After upgrade from Magento 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 I am getting follwoing error message

• On Mini Cart

  You don't have permission to access /pub/static/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/Magento_Checkout/template/minicart/content.html on this server.

• On Products Page

  Forbidden
  You don't have permission to access /pub/static/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/mage/gallery/gallery.html on this server.

I have upgraded system using Web Setup Wizard. I have taken following steps after upgrade

Index are regenerated,
Permission are applied again,
Flushed Magento Cache

Answer 1

To resolve your issue with permission permanently, you need to set your primary user group in Linux to be "www-data" most of the time but you need to check your which apache belongs to.

To check which groups you belong to, type:

id

in the command line.

To change primary user group type in:

usermod -G oldusergroup newprimaryusergroup

Answer 2

I have same issue but fix it using folowing step :

1. Run following command php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
2. Run php bin/magento setup:upgrade
3. Run php bin/magento setup:di:compile
4. Run php bin/magento cache:clean

Clear browser cache, you are done.

Answer 3

reset the permissions like here

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/prereq/file-system-perms.html

and redeploy the static content with php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy.

Make sure that you are assigning the right user to your files.

Other than that you can delete the whole pub/static folder except the .htaccess file and redeploy it with the command above.