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Jimmyjames's avatar

403 after installing Nova... Tried everything I found.

So I'm pretty new to laravel but I'm starting to get my head around it.. I installed Nova yesterday and the installation seemed to go well except the odd issue with missing php packages that I installed and everything carried on fine. Then at the final voila moment I get the 403 forbidden page.. so I googled it and found lots of suggestions. I have tried accessing it from the local environment.. I have tried changing the authorisation gate to just return true.. and I have tried a number of other things! Anyone have any suggestions?!?

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siangboon's avatar

first check the log and folder permission...

screenshot of the error page with the url together and also show the route list will easy other to understand your issue...

Jimmyjames's avatar

Thanks for the suggestions! My log and folder permissions are 775 for both the nova folder and the log folder.

The error page is just your standard 403 forbidden page. I checked the route list and it's full of routes related to Nova.. so full I can't get a screenshot of it!

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