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

I got this error because I forgot to set my 'DocumentRoot' url and my 'Directory' url the same.

#dl local

    ServerName dl.local
    DocumentRoot "/Users/myuser/dl_live"               <<< ----- This URL has to match
                    <<< ----- this URL
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks IncludesNoExec
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    
    ErrorLog "logs/dl.local_error_log"

If you do this you may see an error like this in your error log file:

[Tue Feb 03 13:50:26.189944 2015] [authz_core:error] [pid 25254] [client 127.0.0.1:54841] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /Users/myUsername/path/to_local/virtual_host/