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Hi,

I'm trying out lampp for the first time, and it seems really nice, but I can't get virtual hosts working for this project I'm working on.
I am running the project outside of /opt/lampp/htdocs. It's in my /home/mssutani/projects directory.

Every time I try and go to my virtualhost I get a 403 error: Access forbidden.

I have edited my httpd-vhosts.conf file and I have allowed Virtual hosts in httpd.conf.

I even tried chmoding all my files and directory 777 but I still get Access forbidden.

I did some searching on this messageboard and found people with similar issues but no solutions.

Every time I try and go to my virtualhost I get a 403 error: Access forbidden.

1st.: read the error.log what's the reason for an "access forbidden".

The reason is:

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

I just noticed that as soon as I enabled virtual hosts I can nolonger get into the xampp pages from http://localhost

It's in my /home/mssutani/projects directory.

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[error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied

Your Apache user must have at least read access to:
/
/home/
/home/mssutani/
/home/mssutani/projects/

Hmmm, I'm not sure who my apache user is. How do I find out? Generally when I'm using ubuntu it's www-data, but I'm stuck in a different distro right now and I don't know who the user is.

Also, why can't I get to the xampp pages as soon as I start virtual hosts?
Now if I go to http://localhost/xampp I get the same 403 error. It works when I turn comment out virtual hosts in the httpd.conf file.

Thanks for your help so far!

I'm not sure who my apache user is.

The Apache user (group) is defined in "httpd.conf".

Also, why can't I get to the xampp pages as soon as I start virtual hosts?

Maybe there is no vhost for the old DocumentRoot?

Maybe there is no vhost for the old DocumentRoot?

Ah, So enabling virtual host disables the default /htdocs/project from being hosted as http://localhost/project?

I think this may have done the trick! I just changed the user and group to my own user and group. I still ahve to set everything up to verify it worked properly...
and also right now I made everything read-write-executable because i was trying to figure out what was going wrong. I'll need to set the correct permissions... but so far so good!

Thank you!

Ah, So enabling virtual host disables the default /htdocs/project from being hosted as http://localhost/project?

Let me say yes. (of course, this depends on, how you define your vhosts.)

I just wanted to confirm that specifying the user and group in http.conf did work for me.

I don't see a way to mark this thread as solved so, I'm trying to make it very clear incase other people run into this problem.

Thanks!

This worked for me with windows 7 and version 1.7.3
in httpd.conf i've added the # in the directory to have it work with vhosts.
My vhosts were located outside of the root folder...

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
</Directory>