title: getting 403(Access Forbidden) error while accessing the site through browser
body: <p>Hi I'm getting 403 error while im accessing my live site through the browser. It was working fine last day. I'm not sure why this error is coming. I have searched a lot about it. These are the solutions I have tried:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I have changed my httpd.conf file's configurations from default to :</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;Directory /&gt;
      #Options FollowSymLinks
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
      AllowOverride All
      Order deny,allow
      Allow from all
  &lt;/Directory&gt;</code></p></li>
  <li><p>Changed the permission for <code>/var/www/html</code> directory from default to <code>777</code></p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>and few more things. But nothing worked. I am not sure what is going wrong. </p>
  
  <p>My server configurations are:</p>
  
  <p>Apache/2.2.29.
  AWS EC2 Instance. </p>
  
  <p>This is the Error message shown on browser:</p>
  
  <h1>forbidden</h1>
  
  <pre><code>You don't have permission to access / on this server.
  
  Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the Error message from <code>error_logs</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Thu May 21 14:58:51 2015] [error] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/
  [Thu May 21 14:58:51 2015] [error] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] File does not exist: /var/www/error/noindex.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>please let me know in comments if you need anything else. Thanks in advance :)</p>