how to remove 403 forbidden error in magento server

Question

I'm new to Magento. I have installed Magento in the sub folder on the server.

created DB successfully.

But, when I run URL on the browser it gives the error that

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

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Answer 1

Could you please check the file and folder permission as given in Magento Docs

Files and Folder Permission in Magento 2

Also Please check in your server for mod_rewrite is enabled in Apache2

Answer 2

----------Windows configuration ----------------- XAMPP > XAMPP Control Panel > apache config setting

xampp\apache2\conf\httpd.conf open this

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Remove # tag for uncomment.

/xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhost.conf open this.

Create an virtual host

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
  DocumentRoot "C:/path/to/your/site"
  ServerName example.local

  CustomLog "C:/path/to/your/site/logs/example.local.access.log" combined
  ErrorLog "C:/path/to/your/site/logs/example.local.error.log"

  <Directory "C:/path/to/your/site">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Restart server once.

Answer 3

::: For Apache2 :::

Create Virtual Host

Login with sudo command in the terminal by typing

sudo -s

Create a virtual host file.

sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/<site-name>.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/<site-name>.conf

Paste Below Code into it. Change php version and domain name as per the requirement + verify the directories.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@<domain-name>
ServerName domain-name
ServerAlias www.domain-name
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain-name
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain-name/pub
<Directory /var/www/html/domain-name>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
      SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/php<php-version>-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>
</VirtualHost>

Hit below commands over the terminal

sudo a2ensite <site-name>.conf
sudo apachectl configtest
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Make an entry of the domain name.

nano /etc/hosts

Paste this right at the bottom

127.0.0.1    <site-name>

To Disable Site Configuration

sudo a2dissite <site-name>.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2

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::: For Nginx :::

Create Virtual Host Login with sudo command in the terminal by typing

sudo -s

Create a virtual host file.

sudo touch /etc/nginx/sites-available/<site-name>.conf
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/<site-name>.conf

Paste Below Code into it.

upstream fastcgi_backend {
  server  unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name <site-name> www.<site-name>;
  set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/html/<site-name>;
  include /var/www/html/<site-name>/nginx.conf.sample;
}

Fire below command on terminal and restart nginx. It’ll be working then.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/<site-name>.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

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::: Setup Permissions ::: Always Remember to look at the directory first and then fire below commands.

cd <magento-root-dir>

chmod -R uog-rwxs .
chown -R <file-owner> .
chgrp -R <apache-running-user-group> .
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
find var/ pub/static pub/media app/etc generated/ -type f -exec chmod g+w {} +
find var/ pub/static pub/media app/etc generated/ -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} +
chmod 640 app/etc/env.php
chmod -R g+s .

<apache-running-user-group> will be most probably www-data To see by which user and group apache2 is running, type below command on the terminal.

apachectl -S

If XDebug is not working, one may try changing below configuration

nano /etc/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

& Update below configuration as per above screenshot you achieved.

user = <file-owner>
group = www-data
listen.owner = <file-owner>
listen.group = www-data

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