When I connect from my local machine to a live instance of Magento 2, I get a 403 Error with the following message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Best Answer
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.
Where username is an user name used to run Apache server.
Add the following content:
Check and uncomment the line:
Enjoy developing your Magento 2 projects.
Source From : maxpronko