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

Question

My laravel installation was working fine yesterday but today I get the following error:

Forbidden

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

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Answer 1

For me this was simply calling route() on a named route that I had not created/created incorrectly. This caused the Forbidden error page.

Restarting the web server allowed proper Whoops! error to display:

Route [my-route-name] not defined.

Fixing the route name ->name('my-route-name') fixed the error.

This is on Laravel 5.5 & using wampserver.