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

Apache 2.4 virtual hosts hack

1.In http.conf specify the ports , below “Listen”

Listen 80
Listen 4000
Listen 7000
Listen 9000

2. In httpd-vhosts.conf

   
   ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
   DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Vikas/Documents/NetBeansProjects/slider_website_hitesh/public_html"  
   ServerName hitesh_web.dev
   ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
   CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
   
   
   Allow from all
   Require all granted
   
   
   
   

   this is 2nd virtual host

   
   ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
   DocumentRoot "E:/dabkick_git/DabKickWebsite"
   ServerName  www.my_mobile.dev
   ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
   CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
   
   
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
    
   
   

3. In hosts.ics file of windows os “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host.ics”

   127.0.0.1             localhost
   127.0.0.1             hitesh_web.dev
   127.0.0.1             www.my_mobile.dev
   127.0.0.1             demo.multisite.dev
   

4.now type your “domain names” in the browser it will ping the particular folder specified in the documentRoot path

5.if you want to access those files in a particular port then replace 80 in httpd-vhosts.conf with port numbers like below and restart apache

   
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Vikas/Documents/NetBeansProjects/slider_website_hitesh/public_html"
ServerName hitesh_web.dev
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common


Allow from all
Require all granted

this is the 2nd vhost

ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
DocumentRoot "E:/dabkick_git/DabKickWebsite"
ServerName  www.dabkick_mobile.dev
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common


Allow from all
Require all granted

Note: for port number given virtual hosts you have to ping in browser like “http://hitesh_web.dev:4000/” or “http://www.dabkick_mobile.dev:7000/”

6.After doing all those changes you have to save the files and restart apache respectively.