There are 12 or so similar questions but not drupal related. Here is my site on a digitalocean droplet: http://104.236.27.226/
It is apache2 on ubuntu16 php7. I am using: 000-default.conf:
ServerName casey.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory "/var/www/html">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
I made file permission as permissive as possible:
drwxrwsrwx 4 casey www-data 4096 Sep 20 12:15 www/
I put an echo in the settings.php, at the very end to show the user for apache:
casey@dchouse02:/var$ tail -n 3 www/html/sites/default/settings.php
echo('<h4>ECHO: from setting.php after databases array; and apache user is (via exec whoami): ');
echo exec('whoami'); echo ('</h4>');
Knowing that settings.php is being read, I moved to indx.php for this D7 site:
casey@dchouse02:/var$ tail -n 3 www/html/index.php
echo('<p>from index.php: before menu_execute_active_handler:</p>');
menu_execute_active_handler();
echo('<p>After menu_execute_active_handler</p>');
At this point the error appears:
The web service endpoint returned a "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" response
The list of apache processes look similar to what I get from the ubuntu on my laptop:
casey@dchouse02:/var$ ps aux | grep apache
root 16068 0.0 4.7 327752 23512 ? Ss 16:59 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16071 0.0 10.2 345548 51244 ? S 16:59 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16072 0.0 10.2 343656 51176 ? S 16:59 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16073 0.0 10.7 347648 53632 ? S 16:59 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16074 0.0 11.1 349660 55520 ? S 16:59 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16075 0.0 10.1 345548 50888 ? S 16:59 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16099 0.0 10.0 343428 50248 ? S 16:59 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 16764 0.0 10.3 345600 51792 ? S 18:37 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 17344 0.0 1.3 327784 6612 ? S 21:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 17347 0.0 1.3 327784 6612 ? S 21:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
I don't know what else to do to troubleshoot this.
