Server unable to read htaccess file denying access to be safe

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I have created a simple app using AngularJS  When I tried to host that project in my website http   demo gaurabdahal com recipefinder it shows the following error   Forbidden You don t have permission to access  recipefinder on this server  Server unable to read htaccess file  denying access to be safe  But if I go to http   demo gaurabdahal com  it displays  quot access denied quot  message as expected  that I have printed  But why is it unable to open that AngularJS projects  quot recipefinder quot   If I tried to put a simple HTML app there  it opens just fine  The same AngularJS project works fine when I host that in github  http   gaurabdahal github io recipefinder  I can t understand what s wrong

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In my case apache was somehow configured wrong    so I had to set permissions to all parent dirs too  Just setting permission to  htaccess  and it s parent dir  didn t work

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You need to run these commands in  var www html  or any other directory that your project is on  sudo chgrp -R GROUP    sudo chown -R USER GROUP    find    -type d -exec chmod 755 -R       find    -type f -exec chmod 644        In my case  apache web server  I use www-data for USER and GROUP

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I had this problem too  My advice is look in your server error log file  For me  it was that the top directory for the project was not readable  The error log clearly stated this  A simple sudo chmod 755  lt site top folder gt   fixed it for me

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I had same problem on Fedora  and found that problem was selinux  to test that it is problem run command  sudo setenforce 0  Otherwise or change in file  etc sysconfig selinux  SELINUX enforcing to SELINUX disabled   or add rules to selinux to allow http access

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Ok  I recently met the same issue too while working on a WordPress installation using apache2 on the server on Ubuntu 20 04  I experienced this issue when I changed file ownership to another user  Here s what worked for me    sudo chown -R www-data www-data  var www YOUR-DIRECTORY   Here s a bit more context into the issue  The above command gives ownership of all the files  in that folder  to the www-data user and group  This is the user that the Apache web server runs as  and Apache will need to be able to read and write WordPress files in order to serve the website and perform automatic updates  Be sure to point to your server   s relevant directory  replace YOUR-DIRECTORY with your actual folder   You could run through this insightful article on digitalocean

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I had the same problem on a rackspeed server after changing the php version in the cpanel  Turned out it also changed the permissions of the folder    I set the permission of the folder to 755 with chmod 755 folder name

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GoDaddy shared server solution I had the same issue when trying to deploy separate Laravel project on a subdomain level  File structure - public html  where the main web app resides       works fine       - booking mydomain com  folder for separate Laravel project           showing error 403 forbidden   Solution  go to cPanel of your GoDaddy account  open File Manager  browse to the folder that shows 403 forbidden error  in the File Manager  right-click on the folder  in my case booking mydomain com   select Change Permissions  select following checkboxes  a  user - read  write  execute  b  group - read  execute  c  world - read  execute   Permission code must display as 755   Click change permissions

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As for Apache running on Ubuntu  the solution was to check error log  which showed that the error was related with folder and file permission   First  check Apache error log  nano  var log apache2 error log   Then set folder permission to be executable  sudo chmod 755  var www html    Also set file permission to be readable  sudo chmod 644  var www html  htaccess

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Server unable to read htaccess file  means just that   Make sure that the permissions on your  htaccess file are world-readable

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Every public folder makes the permission to 755  Problem solved

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In linux  find project directory name here -type d -exec chmod 755       find project directory name here -type f -exec chmod 644        It will replace all files and folder permission of project directory name here and its inside stuff

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Set group of your public directory to nobody

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Important points in my experience    every resource accessed by the server must be in an executable and readable directory  hence the xx5 in every chmod in other answers  most of the time the webserver  apache in my case  is running neither as the user nor in the group that owns the directory  so again xx5 or chmod o rx is necessary    But the greater conclusion I reached is start from little to more    For example  if http   myserver com sites all resources assets css bootstrap css  yields a 403 error  see if http   myserver com  works  then sites  then sites all  then sites all resources  and so on   It will help if your server has directory indexes enable    In Apache  Options  Indexes   This instruction might also be in the  htaccess of your webserver public html folder

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This is a common problem with GoDaddy virtual server hosting when you bring up a new website   Assuming you have SSH access to the server  you have to enable it on cPanel   login to your account   Upon successful login  you will be placed in the home directory for your account   The DocumentRoot for your website is located in a subdirectory named public html   GoDaddy defaults the permissions for this directory to 750  but those permissions are inadequate to allow Apache to read the files for website   You need to change the permissions for this directory to 755  chmod 755 public html    Copy the files for your website into the public html directory  both scp and rsync work for copying files to a GoDaddy Linux server    Next  make sure all of the files under public html are world readable   To do this  use this command   cd public html chmod -R o r     If you have other subdirectories  like css  js  and img   make sure they are world accessible by enabling both read and execute for world access   chmod o rx css chmod o rx img chmod o rx js   Last  you will need to have a  htaccess file in the public html file   GoDaddy enforces a rule that prohibits the site for loading if you do not have a  htaccess file in your public html directory   You can use vi to create this file   vi  htaccess     Enter the following lines in the file   Order allow deny Allow from all Require all granted   This config will work for both Apache 2 2 and Apache 2 4   Save the file  ZZ   and then make sure the file has permissions of 644   chmod 644  htaccess   Works like a charm

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Just my solution  I had extracted a file  had some minor changes  and got the error above  Deleted everything  uploaded and extracted again  and normal business

[.htaccess] Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

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