403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /folder-name/ on this server

Solved the problem with:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/folder-name

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www

Grant permissions

under etc/apache2/apache2.conf, you can find one or more blocks that describe the server directories and permissions

As an example, this is the default configuration

<Directory /var/www/>
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Require all granted
</Directory>

you can replicate this but change the directory path /var/www/ with the new directory.

Finally, you need to restart the apache server, you can do that from a terminal with the command: sudo service apache2 restart

if permission issue and you have ssh access in root folder

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

will resolve your error

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