Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

Question

I have created a simple app using AngularJS. When I tried to host that project in my website http://demo.gaurabdahal.com/recipefinder it shows the following error:

Answer 1

In my case apache was somehow configured wrong(?) so I had to set permissions to all parent dirs too. Just setting permission to .htaccess (and it's parent dir) didn't work.

Answer 2

As for Apache running on Ubuntu, the solution was to check error log, which showed that the error was related with folder and file permission.

First, check Apache error log

nano /var/log/apache2/error.log

Then set folder permission to be executable

sudo chmod 755 /var/www/html/

Also set file permission to be readable

sudo chmod 644 /var/www/html/.htaccess

Answer 3

Every public folder makes the permission to 755. Problem solved.

Answer 4

I had the same problem on a rackspeed server after changing the php version in the cpanel. Turned out it also changed the permissions of the folder... I set the permission of the folder to 755 with

chmod 755 folder_name

Answer 5

In linux,

find project_directory_name_here -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find project_directory_name_here -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

It will replace all files and folder permission of project_directory_name_here and its inside stuff.

Answer 6

Set group of your public directory to nobody.