Magento 2 – Fix 403 Error After Setup:Upgrade Command

TL;DR truncate pub/static folder.

For me, I had an older installation, which probably had some symlinks and old files which no longer exist.

The issue checkInstallationFilePermissions is that it checks the permissions recursively. Files and folders. I had a missing symlink, and that returned false on the check if it's writable.

How to debug:

1. setup/src/Magento/Setup/Model/FilePermissions.php

2. Goto line 143 in method checkRecursiveDirectories

3. Add the lines var_dump($subDirectory);var_dump($subDirectory->isWritable());

4. Re run bin/magento setup:upgrade

now you'll see what is really wrong, and you can fix it. Personally i remove everything in pub/static, this will be auto generated content so you should not be worried about that.

How to fix

In order to resolve the 403 Forbidden problem you have to adjust permissions for user which is used to run localhost server.

1. Find your username with this command:

whoami

2. Then navigate and check if you have config for this user or create if doesn’t exist:

cd /etc/apache2/user/
touch <username>.conf

Where username is an user name used to run Apache server.

3. Add the following configuration (note that this is only for Yosamite):

sudo vi /etc/apache2/user/<username>.conf

Add the following content:

<Directory "/Users/<username>/Sites/">
AddLanguage en .en
LanguagePriority en fr de
ForceLanguagePriority Fallback
Options FollowSymlinks Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from localhost
Require all granted
</Directory>

4. Add lines in the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf configuration file:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Check and uncomment the line:

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

5. In the httpd-userdir.conf file ensure to uncomment line:

Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf

6. Restart Apache server

sudo /usr/sbin/httpd -k restart

Enjoy developing your Magento 2 projects.

Source From : maxpronko