Desired BehaviourTo be able to access localhost in browser without getting 403 Forbidden message.Current BehaviourNavigating to localhost in browser returns:ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access / on this server.Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80Steps To ReproduceI set up a local server on Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon using these steps:$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5$ sudo apt-get install php5-dev php5-cli$ sudo apt-get install php-pear$ pear version// PEAR Version: 1.9.4// PHP Version: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.5// Zend Engine Version: 2.5.0// Running on: Linux my-computer 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64$ pecl version ## as above$ sudo pecl install mongo ## this installs the mongo driverAt this point, I was prompted with something containing [no] and I pressed enter.   $ cd /etc/php5/apache2$ sudo vi php.iniAt the end of the file I added:  extension=mongo.so$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restartAt the end of this process, yesterday, I could access localhost successfully.Today, I am getting the 403 error when navigating to localhost.  TroubleshootingApache Statusme@my-computer ~ $ /etc/init.d/apache2 status * apache2 is runningPermissions/vardrwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 Nov 23 08:58 var/var/wwwdrwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Nov 23 08:58 www/var/www/htmldrwx------ 8 me me 4096 Nov 22 01:07 html/var/www/html/index.html-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  11510 Nov 23 08:59 index.html
403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server - apache2 localhost on Linux Mint 17
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