Unable to Launch a Website Made From Scratch

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Hi, all!

I have built a website from scratch using HTML, CSS, and JS and I would like to use Local to view my website in a browser while I develop it further. In order to achieve this, I completed the steps below…

  1. Created a site in Local
  2. Opened the folder in which the website was stored in: /users/ me /Local Sites/ website /app/public/
  3. I deleted all the Wordpress files in the folder
  4. I replaced the /public/ folder with my website files I wrote
  5. Started website

And then… I got this error:

403 Forbidden nginx

And I also got this error: (Local router error)

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Thank you in advance for any advice!

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You should leave the public folder in place and put your files there. Just replace the contents of public.

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Right, that’s what I did. Sorry if that wasn’t clear in my post I meant I replaced the contents of public.

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https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204644980/why-am-i-seeing-a-403-forbidden-error-message

Looking at this site it seems to be a Permission, Ownership, or Empty httpdocs directory error because I already have an index.html in my website files.

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Hi @coder110,

Can you please screenshot or provide a listing of what’s in your public folder? Feel free to block out any sensitive names.

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In this case I would advise using the “Custom” environment. The Preferred environment will not use anything other than index.php as the index.

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Ok. Thanks so much! I’ll try that and get back to you on whether or not it works!

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It worked! Thanks a million @clay!

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