Getting "403 Forbidden" after scale my linode

A 403 Forbidden error is often the result of a permissions error, as it indicates that the web server received the request but refuses to process it. Mozilla has a thorough explanation of why this error occurs, and we also have an additional Linode Community Questions post here that has some suggestions for why this error might occur. Since you mentioned that the error happened after you resized your Linode and made some changes to the Nginx default and index pages, something may have gone wrong in your configuration that caused the 403 error to occur. Restoring from a backup is a great solution, but as a starting point, investigating your web server logs in /var/log/ should provide you with some clues as to where to look to solve the issue.

@Scavic --

Check the permissions/ownership of the site directories and files…

I can't imagine that a resize operation would change them but perhaps you have some other agent at play that did.

-- sw

Hi @jyoo and @stevewi

Actually, after scaling my plan nginx was running and it cant let Apache run. So i had to stop nginx and start Apache server, and that fixed my problem. But still not sure why that happened?