403 Forbidden Issue

Jeff Givens

I modified my 'C:\laragon\www\profitdigv2\public.htaccess' file and also my 'C:\laragon\etc\apache2\sites-enabled\xxxx.test.conf' file. The changes I made did not work--so I restored both of those files back to their original form, removing any changes that I had made. Now every time I try to access 'profitdigv2.test/login' URL, I get a 403 error, as shown here:

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Title: "403 Forbidden"
URL: "http://profitdigv2.test/C:/laragon/www/profitdigv2/public/"
Error Code: "FORBIDDEN You don't have permission to access /C:/laragon/www/profitdigv2/public/ on this server."

So I guess my question is...are there other files I need to modify beyond just the .conf and .htaccess files that I modified with to get this working again?

I tried manually changing the existing .conf and .htaccess files to match the text found in a "fresh laravel application". I used Laragon to create a Quick App --> Laravel and then grabbed the text inside .htaccess and .conf, then pasted that text into the profitdigv2 versions of those files. Then I modified the 'default' text to be specific to this particular project. Here are the contents of the files:

.htaccess
https://pastebin.com/raw/sMm9TPhd

auto.profitdigv2.test.conf
https://pastebin.com/raw/yX3Ju73t

Also I tried editing the permissions on the public folder (using windows permissions), and that had no impact. I compared the permissions to a fresh installed app, and everything seemed identical. Then as a hail mary, I went into terminal and changed the permissions using chmod--which also had no effect on the outcome.

Any thoughts on what else I can do differently? Thanks.

Jeff Givens

Just an update, it turns out that I CAN reach the login page by accessing:

"profitdigv2.test/index.php/login"

...looking into why happened now. Will keep updated if a solution is found.

leokhoa

Hi @Jeff-Givens

I guess the root cause is your .htaccess setting not the file permissions.
By the way, why did you access this url:
http://profitdigv2.test/C:/laragon/www/profitdigv2/public/

Normally, you just access: http://profitdigv2.test which will serve code in C:/laragon/www/profitdigv2/public/

Jeff Givens

Hi @leokhoa,

I did not access "http://profitdigv2.test/C:/laragon/www/profitdigv2/public/" directly. This is the URL that gets entered into my browser when I type "profitdigv2.test/login" ...it automatically replaces the URL with the one that includes the C:\ directory.

I do not fully understand how .htaccess works, so it appears I've done some damage somehow. I tried "returning to its original state" but fear that has not worked out very well.

leokhoa

@Jeff-Givens : Did you try comment these lines:

# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

Jeff Givens

@leokhoa I tried commenting the lines, then I reloaded apache. I experienced the same result. EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION Commenting those lines had no impact.

leokhoa

@Jeff-Givens : Do you have a github access to your project?

Jeff Givens

@leokhoa No, unfortunately it is a private repository. I would be happy to screenshare, though, with something like Teamviewer.

Jeff Givens

@leokhoa I cloned the repository into another folder. The repository did not have the .htaccess or .env files in them (due to gitignore). But I copied them over from the 'broken' project. The cloned repository works just fine.

What files could I have modified in the broken folder? The only 2 files that I changed was the public/.htaccess and the auto.profitdigv2.test.conf files earlier. Did this do something to other files in addition to the 2 that I modified?