XAMPP (Mac) Virtual host showing 403

Question

I keep getting Access Forbidden Error 403 when I try running my installation of XAMPP on my MAC

I am running the project outside of /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs<

Answer 1

In my case problem was with user definition in httpd.conf for Windows:

User daemon
Group daemon

Changed to

User myusername

And it worked

For linux:

User myusername
Group sudo

For OSX:

User myusername
Group admin

also you might have to set permissions on folder

sudo chown -R yourusername /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs