you don't have permission to access [custom alias] on this server

Question

can anyone help with a following issue: I am using wamp to run projects in my chrome browser. after adding a newAlias which points to my project directory c:/dev/myProject I am

Answer 1

for allow permission for your server & wamp you require 3 steps please ensure these 3 things after that you can access your site from other network with ip address e.g http://192.168.1.1/yoursitefoldername (192.168.1.1 is you computer or vps ip address "yoursitefoldername" is folder name of your site which should be in your wamp->www folder)

1.

first of all Port 80 and 443 must be allow for both TCP and UDP packets. To do this, create 2 inbound rules for TPC and UDP on Windows Firewall for port 80 and 443. (or you can disable your whole firewall for testing but permanent solution if allow inbound rule)

2.

If you are using WAMPServer 3 See bottom of answer

For WAMPServer versions <= 2.5

You need to change the security setting on Apache to allow access from anywhere else, so edit your httpd.conf file.

Change this section from :

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
     Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from all
     Allow from 127.0.0.1
     Allow from ::1
     Allow from localhost

To :

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
    Order Allow,Deny
      Allow from all

if "Allow from all" line not work for your then use "Require all granted" then it will work for you.

WAMPServer 3 has a different method

In version 3 and > of WAMPServer there is a Virtual Hosts pre defined for localhost so dont amend the httpd.conf file at all, leave it as you found it.

Using the menus, edit the httpd-vhosts.conf file.

It should look like this :

    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot D:/wamp/www
    
        Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require local
    

Amend it to

    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot D:/wamp/www
    
        Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    

Hopefully you will have created a Virtual Host for your project and not be using the wamp\www folder for your site. In that case leave the localhost definition alone and make the change only to your Virtual Host.

3. Dont forget to restart All Services of Wamp or Apache after making this change