Apache 403 Forbidden Error and Solution

I had the same problem. I was doing some testing and have installed PHP 5 on a development server. I had a site installed on the server that was working correctly, complete with quite an elaborate .htaccess file handling many redirects and rules. However, after installing PHP5 it turns out any php file I tried to view just returned a 403 Forbidden error. I began to scratch my head. Searching on Google didn’t immediately bring up a solution either. However, I eventually narrowed it down to the fact that I needed to add Options +FollowSymLinks to my .htaccess file. That solved it all.

I am having the same problems with my Apache server, however I am running it off of Windows XP. Would my solution be the same as the steps above, can someone “dumb it down” for me?

Just a quick reminder guys; mind the back-slashes on your apache config file when naming your domain and path. My Error 403 came as a result of that; but now that everything is up! I’m coooooool.

Sho!

Set dir options as follows and restart apache:

<Directory "/home/domain/www">
		Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
		AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
</Directory>

I had this error on Apache on WIndows Vista… after some experimenting around I found that for some reason the doc files had been encrypted. Even though I could open/edit/save them, Apace could not. Which is strange as I made perms open to Everyone for Full Control. Anyway, once I selected All and set not to encrypt, then Apache was able to open and send them to the client.

can anyone help me out of this problem. I couldn’t solve this problem for a week.

issue : [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/Apache2/htdocs/projectconsole

what is the solution

I’m getting the “403″ error message when i use flash and php

In your virtual host conf file for the site, what are the values, if any, for the following directives:

VirtualHost
NameVirtualHost

They should look something like this

VirtualHost *.80
NameVirtualHost *.80

If you have a specific IP address specified in either directive, remove it and replace it with a *.

Weird power outages can also cause a broadband modem to power cycle and lease a new IP address. Becuase you have a dynamic IP address and your site stopped working spontaneously, I’m guessing that your conf file states an explicit IP address to listen on. When your IP address changed it broke the directive, causing Apache to no longer accept requests for your site.

I just read over the postings and adding an index file sounds easy. But what happens if your site has over 800 folders ie a very large organization. The server is showing a forbidden page even though it’s ugly can we not change that page? Or have the server point to a custom 404 page? I don’t want to go around sticking index files in with meta redirects to a 404 page or to the homepage. Suggestions please would be FANTASTIC!

Thanks.

C

Thanks Vivek Gite… I’m going to try that out.

Cheers

Z

to “best”:

your message
“Weird power outages can also cause a broadband modem to power cycle and lease a new IP address. Becuase you have a dynamic IP address and your site stopped working spontaneously, I’m guessing that your conf file states an explicit IP address to listen on. When your IP address changed it broke the directive, causing Apache to no longer accept requests for your site.”
which gave me an idea that prior to my 403 error, we had a power interruption. what i did was to power cycle the router’s and internet’s power adapter (plug/unplug) and then all was back to normal.

thanks much! \(><,)/

indie

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.

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Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.9 Server at cris.hobo-studios.org Port 80

i have the same problem in in host way

Sorry but it’s not working,

I’m using fedora 10 that I had recently installed, and i have realized that yum install scatters files all the disk. So I want build every from binary code so that i can keep my location consistent, but every time make install THIS IS THE MESSAGE I GET after the command # /.configure

[root@localhost httpd-2.2.11]# ./configure
checking for chosen layout… Apache
checking for working mkdir -p… yes
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library …

checking for APR… reconfig
configuring package in srclib/apr now
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
Configuring APR library
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for working mkdir -p… yes
APR Version: 1.3.3
checking for chosen layout… apr
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: in `/home/smarty/Download/httpd-2.2.11/srclib/apr’:
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log’ for more details.
configure failed for srclib/apr

PLEASE HELP, on top of that its the 403 ERROR