Apache Friends Support Forum

Hi! I recently installed XAMPP and phpbb from Bitnami in hopes of making a forum site. I have everything installed, but for some reason, when people try to access the site, it says this: Access forbidden!


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New XAMPP security concept:

Access to the requested directory is only available from the local network.

This setting can be configured in the file "httpd-xampp.conf".


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If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

I have no idea what I did wrong.

Thanks,

Carter

Sounds like the original index.php still resides in your htdocs folder. Either that or you put your files inside the XAMPP folder..

thanks! now that i deleted the index.php, the site now says "it works". How do I get PHPBB to work on the site?

That comes from index.html. It all depends on where you put it. If you have it like c:\xampp\htdocs\phpbb\ then it would be http://localhost/phpbb/