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I had lampp installed previously. I uninstalled it using sudo ./uninstall But even after i uninstalled it, it was showing me the contents of /opt/lampp/htdocs. I used sudo rm to remove the directory too. Then I installed apcache using

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring

But now it says

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

How can I fix this? Is there some other application running on :80 rather than any of the apache installations?

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I will suggest to 

apt-get purge apache2

And after that, remove the /etc/apache2 directory completely for clean any custom config.

Now with apache "cleaned" reinstall it again using:

apt-get install apache2

Also you can monitor what process are listening on port 80 with this command:

netstat -tulpn | grep 80
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    depending on the previous installation it might be possible that the uninstall script did not stop the old lampp apache process resulting in it still running. – Dennis Nolte Dec 08 '16 at 11:34