I edited the apache httpd.conf file recently for the mod_rewrite to work. I don\'t know if this problem originated from that or not, but i\'m getting this problem from that
If you are running Fedora, make sure SELinux is not interfering.You fix this with this command:
sudo /sbin/restorecon -R /var/www/.
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