Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server [closed]

Question

All I wanted to do today was to write a redirect rule to a subfolder, e.g.: You enter the URL: example.com and you get redirected to example.com/subfolder

Such a simple wish. I tried to find a solution on the internet. The internet told me to add an .htaccess file in the htdocs root with:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^$ subfolder [L] 

I did this. But no success obviously, they didn't told me I had to uncomment the module in httpd.conf:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so 

So I did this too. No success again. They didn't told me I had to change my httpd.conf so that the .htaccess file would be enabled:

<Directory />     Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride None     Order deny,allow     Deny from all </Directory>  DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs" <Directory "c:/Apache24/htdocs">     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride All     Require all granted </Directory> 

Again no success, because I get this error when entering the URL:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Now I'm stuck and I couldn't find any more solutions on the internet. I'm just running Apache 2.4 on my Windows 7 machine, for private reasons.

Answer 1

Found my solution thanks to Error with .htaccess and mod_rewrite
For Apache 2.4 and in all *.conf files (e.g. httpd-vhosts.conf, http.conf, httpd-autoindex.conf ..etc) use

Require all granted 

instead of

Order allow,deny Allow from all 

The Order and Allow directives are deprecated in Apache 2.4.

Answer 2

WORKING Method { if there is no problem other than configuration }

By Default Appache is not restricting access from ipv4. (common external ip)

What may restrict is the configurations in 'httpd.conf' (or 'apache2.conf' depending on your apache configuration)

Solution:

Replace all:

<Directory />      AllowOverride none     Require all denied  </Directory> 

with

<Directory />      AllowOverride none #    Require all denied  </Directory> 

hence removing out all restriction given to Apache

Replace Require local with Require all granted at C:/wamp/www/ directory

<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride all     Require all granted #   Require local </Directory>