ERROR 403 in loading resources like CSS and JS in my index.php

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I'm in Linux, Elementary OS, and installed lampp in opt.

My CSS and JS won't load. When I inspect my page through browser. The console says Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden) I'm really sure that my directories are correct. This is my workspace

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Permission as root? I tried running chromium as root, but no luck. — Mark Vizcarra, Sep 10 '13 at 16:56
Open a terminal, `cd` to the **bootstrap_practice/bootstrap/css** folder, type `ls -la` and add the result to your question so we can see who owns those files. If the localhost web server is Apache but the files are owned by **root**, Apache won't be able to open them. — Jeremy Harris, Sep 10 '13 at 16:58

Edson Horacio Junior · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-06T18:00:11.633

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You need to change permissions on the folder bootstrap/css. Your super user may be able to access it but it doesn't mean apache or nginx have access to it, that's why you still need to change the permissions.

Tip: I usually make the apache/nginx's user group owner of that kind of folders and give 775 permission to it.

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 16:58

Edson Horacio Junior

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It should work if you do "sudo chmod 0777" inside that directory. – Edson Horacio Junior Sep 10 '13 at 17:08
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For directories: chmod 755 and for files chmod 644. Run these two at the root of your site: `find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;` `find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;` – Janaka R Rajapaksha Sep 19 '15 at 05:55
i have solved it by adding permission the folder - some time adding permission to individual file is not enough – Develop4Life Feb 18 '16 at 07:17
@danielad that's right, the folder needs execute permission to be accessible – Edson Horacio Junior Feb 18 '16 at 08:27

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '13 at 17:06

Find out the web server user

open up terminal and type lsof -i tcp:80

This will show you the user of the web server process Here is an example from a raspberry pi running debian:

COMMAND   PID     USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
apache2  7478 www-data    3u  IPv4 450666      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)
apache2  7664 www-data    3u  IPv4 450666      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)
apache2  7794 www-data    3u  IPv4 450666      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)

The user is www-data

If you give ownership of the web files to the web server:

chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lamp/htdocs

And chmod 755 for good measure:

chmod 755 -R /opt/lamp/htdocs

Let me know how you go, maybe you need to use 'sudo' before the command, i.e. sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lamp/htdocs

if it doesn't work, please give us the output of: ls -al /opt/lamp/htdocs

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 18 '21 at 09:53

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A fast solution can be change permissions with:

sudo chmod -R 755

If you are managing a production server be careful and dont add a permission that you dont need.

answered Sep 18 '21 at 09:53

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ERROR 403 in loading resources like CSS and JS in my index.php

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