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

This question is old and although you managed to make it work but I feel it would be helpful if I make clear some of points you have raised here.

First about directory name having spaces. I have been playing with apache2 configuration files and I have discovered that, if the directory name has space then enclose it in double quotes and all problems disappear. For example...

    NameVirtualHost     local.webapp.org
    <VirtualHost local.webapp.org:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@example.com
        DocumentRoot "E:/Project/my php webapp"
        ServerName local.webapp.org
    </VirtualHost>

Note the way DocumentRoot line is written.

Second is about Access forbidden from xampp. I found that default xampp configuration (..path to xampp/apache/httpd.conf) has a section that looks like the following.

    <Directory>
        AllowOverride none
        Require all denied
    </Directory>

Change it and make it look like below. Save the file restart apache from xampp and that solves the problem.

    <Directory>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
       AllowOverride none
       Require all granted
    </Directory>