I get Access Forbidden (Error 403) when setting up new alias

Question

I\'m running windows 7 and recently installed XAMPP to build a dev environment. I\'m not great with the server side of things so I\'m having some problems setting up an alia

Answer 1

This question is old and although you managed to make it work but I feel it would be helpful if I make clear some of points you have raised here.

First about directory name having spaces. I have been playing with apache2 configuration files and I have discovered that, if the directory name has space then enclose it in double quotes and all problems disappear. For example...

    NameVirtualHost     local.webapp.org
    
        ServerAdmin admin@example.com
        DocumentRoot "E:/Project/my php webapp"
        ServerName local.webapp.org
    

Note the way DocumentRoot line is written.

Second is about Access forbidden from xampp. I found that default xampp configuration (..path to xampp/apache/httpd.conf) has a section that looks like the following.

    
        AllowOverride none
        Require all denied
    

Change it and make it look like below. Save the file restart apache from xampp and that solves the problem.

    
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
       AllowOverride none
       Require all granted