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

I guess I should have looked at the http.conf more carefully. It's not that long, mostly comments. The troublesome part was this.

# Deny access to the entirety of your server's filesystem. You must
# explicitly permit access to web content directories in other 
#  blocks below.
#


    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied

I commented it out and now stuff works, although I guess it's less secure, but it is just a testing server.

I thought the bit was supposed to take care of it but I guess not.