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

I finally got it to work.

I'm not sure if the spaces in the path were breaking things but I changed the workspace of my Aptana installation to something without spaces.

Then I uninstalled XAMPP and reinstalled it because I was thinking maybe I made a typo somewhere without noticing and figured I should be working from scratch.

Turns out Windows 7 has a service somewhere that uses port 80 which blocks apache from starting (giving it the -1) error. So I changed the port it listens to port 8080, no more conflict.

Finally I restarted my computer, for some reason XAMPP doesn't like me messing with ini files and just restarting apache wasn't doing the trick.

Anyway, this has been the most frustrating day ever so I really hope my answer ends up helping someone out!