[laravel] Laravel - Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

My laravel installation was working fine yesterday but today I get the following error:

Forbidden

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.

Does anyone know where I am going wrong?

I had a problem with non-www website URL version - the PUT method has been not working. But when entering the website with www. - it works fine!

For my case was encountering this issue with Laravel 6.x and managed to sort it out by installing an SSL Certificate. Tried playing around with .htaccess but never worked. I'm using the default Laravel 6.x .htaccess file which has the following contents

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Have you tried to change the .htaccess file that laravel suggested if the default one doesn't work? I had this similar problem and changed it to

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

and it soleved :)

Create and put this .htaccess file in your laravel installation(root) folder.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

You might be facing the file permissions issue. Verify your htacces file, did it change from yesterday ? Also, if you were doing any "composer update" or "artisan optimize" stuff, try chowning your laravel project folder for your username.

chown -R yourusername yourlaravelappfolder 

EDIT: the problem is possibly due to your local file permissions concerning Vagrant. Try to

set the permissions to the Vagrantfile containing folder to 777

Check your virtual host configuration. For Ubuntu you could find it at /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourlaravel.conf It should be like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourlaravel.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/your/laravel/project/public"
ServerAlias *.yourlaravel.com

<Directory "/path/to/your/laravel/project/public">
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

The key line is Require all granted inside <Directory>.

Hope it helps!

With me the problem appeared to be about the fact that there was no index.php file in the public_html folder. When I typed in this address however: http://azxcvfj.org/public , it worked (this address is just an example. It points to nowhere). This made me think and eventually I solved it by doing the following.

I made a .htaccess file in the app's root folder (the public_html folder) with this contents:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ public/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

And this worked. With this file you are basically saying to the server (Apache) that whenever someone is trying to access the public html folder(http://azxcvfj.org) that someone who is being redirected is redirected to http://azxcvfj.org/public/index.php

For me, It was just because I had a folder in my public_html named as same as that route!
so please check if you don't have a folder with the address of that route!
hope be helpful

Just add a .htaccess file in your root project path with the following code to redirect to the public folder:

.HTACCESS

## Redirect to public folder
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Very simple but work for me in my server.

Regards!

Chances are that, if all the answers above didn't work for you, and you are using a request validation, you forgot to put the authorization to true.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

class EquipmentRequest extends FormRequest {
  /**
   * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
   *
   * @return bool
   */
  public function authorize() {
    /*******************************************************/
    return true; /************ THIS VALUE NEEDS TO BE TRUE */
    /*******************************************************/
  }

  /* ... */
}

This is solved my problem by adding this line:

DirectoryIndex index.php

If you have tried all .htaccess answers from comments and none of them worked, it's possible that actually you have bad APP_URL in you .env config file. That worked for me.

I met the same issue, then I do same as the solution of @lubat and my project work well. :D My virtualhost configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName laravelht.vn
     DocumentRoot D:/Lavarel/HTPortal/public
     SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
     <Directory D:/Lavarel/HTPortal/public>
         DirectoryIndex index.php
         AllowOverride All
         Require all granted
         Order allow,deny
         Allow from all
     </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>

I've found solution

I put following code into my public/.htaccess and now its running at rocket speed :D

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

In your VirtualHost write the DocumentRoot to point to your Laravel Application in your home directories. In addition you must add the Directory shown below, with your own path:

<Directory /home/john/Laravel_Projects/links/public/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
    Require all granted
</Directory>

The second step, you must go to your Laravel Project and run the following command.

sudo chmod -R 777 storage bootstrap/cache

At the end restart your apache2:

sudo service apache2 restart

For those who using Mamp or Mamp pro:

Open MAMP Pro
Click on “Hosts”
Click on “Extended” (UPDATE: Only if you are using MAMP Pro 3.0.6)
Check “Indexes”
Click “Save”
That’s it! Reload your localhost starting page and it should work properly.

First, update your Virtual Host configuration;

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example-project/public
    <Directory /var/www/html/example-project/public/>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then, change both permission and ownership of the asset as illustrated below.

$ sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html/example-project
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/example-project

I had the same problem and builded a .htaccess file to fix this issue with a few more improvements. You can use it as it is, just download it from Github Gist and change the filename "public/index.php" to "public/app.php" and see how it works! :)

On public/.htaccess edit to

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
              Options -MultiViews
          </IfModule>

          RewriteEngine On

          # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
          RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

          # Handle Front Controller...
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
          RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

          # Handle Authorization Header
          RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
          RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

In the root of the project add file

Procfile

File content

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public/

Reload the project to Heroku

bash
heroku login
cd my-project/
git init
heroku git:remote -a my project
git add .
git commit -am "make it better"
git push heroku master
heroku open

For me this was simply calling route() on a named route that I had not created/created incorrectly. This caused the Forbidden error page.

Restarting the web server allowed proper Whoops! error to display:

Route [my-route-name] not defined.

Fixing the route name ->name('my-route-name') fixed the error.

This is on Laravel 5.5 & using wampserver.

It was solved for me with the Laravel default public/.htaccess file adding an extra line:

The /public/.htaccess file remains as follows:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On
    DirectoryIndex index.php # This line does the trick

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

The problem is the location of the index file (index.php).You must create a symbolic link in the root of the project to public/index.php with the command "ln-s public/index.php index.php"

I had this error and i just pasted the http://127.0.0.1:8000/ directly into the url bar. you get the below when you type : php laravel serve

i was putting in localhost/http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to get the error you mentioned.

In my case, this error was due to internal links in the server, PHP wasn't able to access those folders unless the proper option for that was added to .htaccess.

Add the following line after RewriteEngine On:

Options +FollowSymLinks