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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-02-03 02:17
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    Hi all,

    whenever i try to access the website I'm working on i get error 403 Permission denied. I've tried a few things they mention on the sites below:
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/561201/apache-2-4-10-giving-403-forbidden-issue-on-ubuntu-14-04
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/817575/apache-403-forbidden-error
    • https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83481
    And even tried reinstalling apache, but nothing helped.

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    Feng Yu
    deepin
    2017-02-03 02:26
    #1
    Please check the apache log in /var/log/apache2/.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-02-04 07:15
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    Edited by savanweylyn at 2017-2-3 16:24
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/134610
    Please check the apache log in /var/log/apache2/.

    I've copied the error.log to here:
    http://myubuntuserver.duckdns.org/log/errors.txt
    I've tried to set DocumentRoot to /media/weylyn1/data/www, but after I couldn't fix the 403 error, i've changed it back to /var/www. But it still complains about that path.
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    Feng Yu
    deepin
    2017-02-05 21:18
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    本帖最后由 abcfy2 于 2017-2-5 23:33 编辑

    apache use a low permission user named www-data. You should make sure this user has read access to the path at least.

    And I find your log contains this:
    1. [client 127.0.0.1:50058] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www
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    So your /var/www is a soft link? If so, you must add an option "+FollowSymLinks" to the Directory context, see: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#Options

    But this option is the default config, if you don't modify the default options, that I think the reason is that your target path does not allow www-data user to read.

    Please check the permissions of your path.
    Also, if you have any questions, you can also upload your apache2 config in /etc/apache2/.
    1. tar zcvf apache2.conf.tar.gz /etc/apache2/
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    Then upload the apache2.conf.tar.gz file in your work directory.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-02-06 07:29
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    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/134610
    本帖最后由 abcfy2 于 2017-2-5 13:24 编辑

    apache use a low permission user named www-data. You sho ...

    /var/www is not a softlink, it's a real folder and is owned by www-data. And it's permissions are [pre]drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data root   4096 febr   2 11:07 www[/pre] so www-data HAS permissions to read it.
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    Feng Yu
    deepin
    2017-02-06 07:37
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    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/134610
    /var/www is not a softlink, it's a real folder and is owned by www-data. And it's permissions are  ...

    Would you please upload your /etc/apache2/ directory? Let me check if you have any config issues.

    Also, the /var/log/apache2/ would be helpful.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-02-07 04:32
    #6
    Edited by savanweylyn at 2017-2-6 14:34
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/134610
    Would you please upload your /etc/apache2/ directory? Let me check if you have any config issues.
    ...
    1. sudo apt purge apache2
    2. sudo apt autoremove --purge
    3. sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2
    4. sudo mv /var/www/html /media /weylyn1/htdocs # Just to make sure that the permissions are set by the system
    5. sudo apt install apache2
    6. sudo mv /media /weylyn1/htdocs/* /var/www/html/
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    And now it's finally working!
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