Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

Question

Right now I'm getting this message in a single site of my whole reseller account: 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.

It happened all of a sudden. I tried renaming the root htaccess to anything else, and the error is still there, I even tried setting up 744 permissions to the file, still the same thing. Currently the file is using the default files permissions, 644. The error is ocuring at: http://lucrebem.com.br

Answer 1

I met this issue in Wordpress website. I have changed file permission in "cpanel/public_html" folder. Problem solved for me. So please try it.

Answer 2

Open your cPanel -> Go to 'addon domain' -> then go to 'modify addon domain' section -> then click on edit 'document root' -> click on chenge icon -> then just click on 'Change' button

That's all.

It worked for me.

Answer 3

So the problem was that the public_html folder changed permissions to 744, but I never changed it. I solved it changed the permissions to 750. But how do I see the logs??? Because I never did a change on that folder, I'm afraid it might have been an attack.

Answer 4

You need to add a <Directory block to your apache config

<Directory "/path/to/source/file/directory/www">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Require all granted
</Directory>

This grants the required permission