Desired Behaviour
To be able to access localhost in browser without getting 403 Forbidden message.
Current Behaviour
Navigating to localhost in browser returns:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80
Steps To Reproduce
I set up a local server on Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon
using these steps:
$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5
$ sudo apt-get install php5-dev php5-cli
$ sudo apt-get install php-pear
$ pear version
// PEAR Version: 1.9.4
// PHP Version: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.5
// Zend Engine Version: 2.5.0
// Running on: Linux my-computer 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64
$ pecl version ## as above
$ sudo pecl install mongo ## this installs the mongo driver
At this point, I was prompted with something containing [no] and I pressed enter.
$ cd /etc/php5/apache2
$ sudo vi php.ini
At the end of the file I added: extension=mongo.so
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
At the end of this process, yesterday, I could access localhost successfully.
Today, I am getting the 403 error when navigating to localhost.
Troubleshooting
Apache Status
me@my-computer ~ $ /etc/init.d/apache2 status
* apache2 is running
Permissions
/var
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 23 08:58 var
/var/www
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 23 08:58 www
/var/www/html
drwx------ 8 me me 4096 Nov 22 01:07 html
/var/www/html/index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11510 Nov 23 08:59 index.html