cannot install: “You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/install.php..”

Are your permissions set to 755?
Also is the path correct to your file? Maybe you have a different path set or misconfigured?
Also try these if permissions and paths are correct: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/forbidden-you-don-t-have-permission-to-access-wp-admin-install-php-on-this-server

The path is correct. I know this because I see it in the server error log:

AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/wordpress/example/wp-admin/install.php

that is, /var/www/html/wordpress/example/wp-admin/install.php IS the correct absolute unix path to that file

Also, I have run these commands (on centos, “apache” is the httpd user) from the wordpress root folder and restarted the server, but nothing changes:

chown -R apache:apache .
find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 chmod 644
find . -type d -print0|xargs -0 chmod 755

also, in case it matters, selinux is set to permissive.

Add the following to your Apache configuration, just above the virtualhost section. Then reboot Apache and see if things are working properly.

<Directory "/var/www/html/wordpress">
	Require all granted
</Directory>

And FWIW, PHP 7.2 is fine. In fact it’s probably better than PHP 7.3 at the moment since 7.3 still has some issues with PCRE2 that need to be ironed out.

Add the following to your Apache configuration, just above the virtualhost section. Then reboot Apache and see if things are working properly.

<Directory “/var/www/html/wordpress”>
Require all granted
</Directory>

YES, this let me load the wp-admin/install.php, which in turn loads wp-admin/setup-config.php . THANKS. Seems ok. Right now I cannot proceed with the installation, but tomorrow will do it, and mark this as resolved if there are no other problems. Thanks again!

I confirm this solution works, because I have found what the problem was: the httpd package I have installed on CentOS does NOT have /var/www/html as DocumentRoot. So the settings suggested by @diondesigns WERE present, but applied to the wrong folder!

Does your step by step installation correct? Or, do you have been check it the Apache setting up? In some case, there are any various cause so you getting the error. One of the problem maybe from you database connection and wp-config.

In Ubuntu everything from the web site down needs to be

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ./public_html
sudo chmod -R 755 ./public_html

I always create a public_html directory as the base.

Hello,

I hope you are well, I have a quite similar problem and well, it is the first time I try to set up a website, so as you can guess I’m quite lost, I have installed and uninstalled wordpress, without success, now I read this solution, However, I don’t know what would be the path to follow to configure Apache, the only place I see Apache is on the panel of my server, but I don’t think it’s there, if you help me I will be eternally grateful.

Hello @kerry7 ,

if “the only place you see Apache is on the panel of my server” it means you are using a hosting service, with such a configuration that the only way to solve your problem is to ask the support staff of that provider, not here. Sorry I cannot help more.

Hello @mfioretti ,

Well, it’s a vps with vesta,i will try ask to vps provider, but thanks for responding.