Laravel 403 Forbidden Error

Question

As title said, I got error 403 (title of page) on Laravel project. Locally, it's working, but when I'm trying to put it live, on a web-host/my domain it gives me:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I deleted .htaccess file from public folder, and nothing happened. Any solutions?

Answer 1

Your .htaccess is not parsed by apache because AllowOverride All directive is missing inside virtualhost configuration. .htaccess file is required for Laravel. Put back it. Then change apache virtual host configuration on server to allow .htaccess.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.net
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/example3"
    <Directory /var/www/html/example3>
         DirectoryIndex index.php
         AllowOverride All
         Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Change your virtualhost like this and restart apache by sudo service apache2 restart.

Replace www.example.net and /var/www/html/example3 with correct details.

Answer 2

If you are using your own Request, change the authorize function to return true:

public function authorize()
{
    return true;
}

As simple as that!