Magento 2 Error: You Don't Have Permission To Access This Server

Your store is running Magento 2 and suddenly got this error You don’t have permission to access Magento on this server. You may get crazy with Linux folder permission in this case. No worries, there is a simple solution for that.

This error indicates that a default document could not be found at the specified URL and that directory listings are not permitted. The permission settings of your server should be changed.

Table of Contents

• Magento 2 You Don’t Have Permission To Access/On This Server
• Solution
  • Option 1
  • Option 2

Magento 2 You Don’t Have Permission To Access/On This Server

You may encounter the problem as follows:

Forbidden

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

Solution

Option 1

Grant permissions

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/magento
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www

You can replace correct Magento path /var/www/magento

Option 2

In this approach, there are four steps to resolve this issue:

Step 1: Set the Document Root

• Navigate to the file C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf.

• Add the following code to the httpd-vhosts.conf file:

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/folder_name/pub"
    ServerName yourname.magento.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost> 

• DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/folder_name/pub" : installed Magento2 folder path location
• yourname.magento.com: your desired base URL. (Ex: mageplaza.magento.com)
• DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/folder_name": Base URl for Magento2.4.1

Step 2: Add Domain in the Hosts File Run Notepad as an administrator.

• Open the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file in your Notepad.

• Add the following line at the bottom:

127.0.0.1 yourname.magento.com

• Restart Apache by clicking on the Stop and Start buttons in XAMPP.

Step 3: Set Domain in Env.php File

• Open the file app/etc/env.php.
• Search for downloadable_domains in that file and update the domain URL:

'downloadable_domains' => [
    'yourname.magento.com'
],

Step 4: Update Base URL in the Database Table

• Open localhost/phpmyadmin/ in the browser, select the database, and go to SQL Queries.
• Enter the following command:

UPDATE `core_config_data` SET value='http://yourname.magento.com/' WHERE path='web/unsecure/base_url';

Step 5: Clear Cache

Run the command:

php bin/magento c:f

That’s how you can fix the error ‘ You don’t have permission to access/on this server’ with ease. If you still have problems, leave comments below!

Happy coding!

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