通过浏览器访问网站时出现403（禁止访问）错误

Question

Hi I'm getting 403 error while im accessing my live site through the browser. It was working fine last day. I'm not sure why this error is coming. I have searched a lot about it. These are the solutions I have tried:

1. I have changed my httpd.conf file's configurations from default to :

   <Directory /> #Options FollowSymLinks Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes AllowOverride All Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory>

2. Changed the permission for /var/www/html directory from default to 777

and few more things. But nothing worked. I am not sure what is going wrong.

My server configurations are:

Apache/2.2.29. AWS EC2 Instance.

This is the Error message shown on browser:

forbidden

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

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

This is the Error message from error_logs :

[Thu May 21 14:58:51 2015] [error] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/
[Thu May 21 14:58:51 2015] [error] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] File does not exist: /var/www/error/noindex.html

please let me know in comments if you need anything else. Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

I was trying to set up vhost for Apache/2.2.29. AWS EC2 Instance. meet same error . I solve it by looking the error.log

I need to give 755 to the parent folder

in your error log " File does not exist: /var/www/error/noindex.html" means you need to have this folder and the file.

what I use is chmod 755 -R /var/www/

Answer 2

You can try following steps:

1. In httpd.conf file Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews +Includes
2. Run on terminal: chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html
3. Restart Apache

Answer 3

SE Linux sets security context label to every file. If there is an error setting the security context label the system throws forbidden error. Using "restorecon -v R" along with path name of the file's directory can clear the forbidden error. The "restorecon" command restores the default security context to the file.