Wampserver 403 on named virtual hosts outside of /www

Question

Wampserver tells me accessed denied when I try making a virtual host outside of the c:/wamp/www/ directory. I can make one fine within that directory. Even making a symbolic lin

Answer 1

If you tried all the .conf edits above and none worked, try the following additional steps:

1) Make sure DocumentRoot and locations are the same!

2) Double check "ServerName" domain spelling within your tags, and also check spelling of domain is the same in the HOST file (windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts):

Example:

    DocumentRoot "D:/vhost_directory/website_directory"
    ServerName mywebsite.local
    
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    

3) Check conf files syntax:

cd \wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin
httpd -t

4) Fix conf file errors until you get the output:

Syntax OK

5) Refresh domain name cache (must run console as administrator):

net stop dnscache
net start dnscache

6) Restart Apache service or Restart All Services on WAMP