Using Xampp, Error 403 Access Forbidden
Update (Found a Working Solution): Serveradmin Webmaster@Localhost Documentroot D: /Srv/Xampp/Projects/Testproject/Public Servername Testproject Options...
Update (FOUND A WORKING SOLUTION):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public
ServerName testproject
<Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I had tried re-installing, and no luck. I am using XAMPP 1.7.3, Windows 7 64bit.
Followed instructions from: 403 Forbidden Error when trying to view localhost on Apache
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Server built: Nov 11 2009 14:29:03
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4960
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:58 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:58 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Child process is running
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Oct 16 16:10:30 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/projects/test/
[Sat Oct 16 16:10:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/projects/test/favicon.ico
vhosts file:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
##ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot "C:/projects/test"
ServerName test
##ServerAlias
##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"
##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>
hosts:
# Virtual host
127.0.0.1 test
4 Answers
(FOUND A WORKING SOLUTION):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public
ServerName testproject
<Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This worked for me with Ubuntu 11.10 and version 1.7.7 in httpd.conf i've added the # in the directory to have it work with vhosts. My vhosts were located outside of the root folder...
And change user and group from nobody to your username:
User nobody
Group nobody
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
</Directory>
In the apache folder, go to extra and then open file httpd-xamp.conf.
Edit the following lines:
<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/8
ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>
Change the above configuration like below:
<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>
Now restart XAMPP, it will work.
Here is an update for newer versions of XAMMP. The syntax has changed a little. Note the line: Require all granted in the Directory block.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public
ServerName testproject
<Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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