After migrating a Linux web server from Apache HTTP Server 2.2 to 2.4, every request to an existing virtual host now returns 403 Forbidden. File permissions and SELinux contexts are correct, and the DocumentRoot is unchanged. Which directive should be added to the virtual host's <Directory> section to restore unrestricted public access using the new authorization syntax?
In Apache 2.4 the legacy access-control directives (Order/Allow/Deny) were replaced by the Require framework. If no explicit access rule is set, the server falls back to Require all denied, generating a 403 response. Adding Require all granted inside the relevant <Directory> (or <Location>) stanza overrides the default and permits all clients to read the content. The other choices either rely on deprecated 2.2 syntax that only works when mod_access_compat is loaded, or configure an unrelated setting, so they do not resolve the error.
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