Magento 2 rest api - Client denied by server configuration

Question

I am using magento rest api to manage cart. My frontend runs on reactjs. Here is my apache virtual host looks like :

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento/pub

        <Directory /var/www/html/magento/pub>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

.htaccess in pub folder is same as - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magento/magento2/2.2-develop/pub/.htaccess

When I am adding anything to cart using : POST - http://localhost/magento/rest/V1/carts/mine I am getting the error 404 in response. I checked the apache log and found this

Client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/magento/pub/rest

All other api's are working. Please help.

Answer 1

You permissions might not be correct. Try to set the permissions as described in the Magento 2 DevDocs

Answer 2

To avoid the 404 response from POSTing or PUTing to an API endpoint, in our case "Require all granted" was needed in the .htaccess file too