Fixing 403 Forbidden on alias directory with Apache

Question

I am trying to setup an alias to point to some directory on my filesystem not in DocumentRoot. Now I get a 403 Forbidden response. These are the steps taken: 1. edit http.co

Answer 1

After lots of time waste i fixed the issue and i wanted to share to save your time.

All the gentelmen above and on other posts has some correct parts in their answers but below is the sum

In your "/etc/apache2/httpd.conf" file:

1- change your document root

Original: DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
Change to: DocumentRoot "/Users/yourname/www"

2- change

Original:

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all

Change to:

    Options FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all

3- Change:

Original:

Change to:

4- Finally, you might not need this step if you are the supper user, this is to set the right permition on your new root folder

chmod 755 /Users/yourname/www

Hope this will help