"403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server" - ....

Desired Behaviour

To be able to access localhost in browser without getting 403 Forbidden message.

Current Behaviour

Navigating to localhost in browser returns:

Forbidden

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

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

Steps To Reproduce

I 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 driver

At this point, I was prompted with something containing [no] and I pressed enter.

$ cd /etc/php5/apache2

$ sudo vi php.ini

At the end of the file I added: extension=mongo.so