<p>Fixed by doing the following commands:</p>

<pre><code>chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
service apache2 restart
</code></pre>

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JMKelley
<p>Currently trying to load an asset located in the following branch of my install:</p>

<ul>
<li>Craft

<ul>
<li>html

<ul>
<li>uploads</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Unfortunately when I try to head directly to a specific asset I get the following error message from Craft:</p>

<pre><code>You don't have permission to access /uploads/students/universities/giphy.gif on this server.
Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
</code></pre>

<p>I've set the following on the uploads folder</p>

<pre><code>chmod 774 /var/www/html/
</code></pre>

<p>My site is on DigitalOcean.</p>

<p>Any help would be brilliant </p>

<assets><deployment>
Can't load assets or upload assets
# Can't load assets or upload assets

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-15)

Currently trying to load an asset located in the following branch of my install:

Craft


html


uploads



Unfortunately when I try to head directly to a specific asset I get the following error message from Craft:
You don't have permission to access /uploads/students/universities/giphy.gif on this server.
Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

I've set the following on the uploads folder
chmod 774 /var/www/html/

My site is on DigitalOcean.
Any help would be brilliant

**Tags:** assets, deployment

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2017-04-15. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Fixed by doing the following commands:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
service apache2 restart


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