[Solution] Removal of the .htaccess file in /var/www/.
Apache2, php5, Ubuntu- restarted, no firewall, but server not working. The access to http://IP/dir/index.html ignites the "Forbidden" message. Why do I get the error message?
Permissions
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root www 8643 2009-08-22 22:30 style.css
drwxr-sr-x 3 root www 4096 2009-08-22 22:30 views
error log
[Sun Aug 23 06:50:27 2009] [error] [client 212.246.212.212] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/codes/index.html
[Sun Aug 23 06:50:31 2009] [error] [client 212.246.212.212] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/index.html
error
$ sudo service apache2 start
* Starting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
...done.
Best Answer
The default config in
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
should contain something likeWithout the the relevant
<directory>
settings apache won't serve files from the directory. Check you haven't changed this, and if you have, please post what you have in000-default
.