Migration and Error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

Question

The site directory was moved to a different server and now I'm getting this error:

Forbidden

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

Apache Server at www.samplesite.com Port 80

I've tried changing the paths from

/www/sites/samplesite.com to /var/www/www.samplesite.com on the config and settings files but the same error is showing. How do I determine what the problem could be? And how to solve it?

Answer 1

do you have access administrator on server? if you have, try the commands bellow:

$ chmod 755 /var/www/

or change user/group owner:

$ chown -R wwwuser:wwwgroup /var/www/

Obs.: change wwwuser and wwwgroup with the user and group default of http server configuration.