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Installed xampp-linux-5.5.24-0, installation all right, all right localhost given (opt/lampp/htdocs). When I changed the localhost from "/opt/lampp/htdocs" to /home/schede, then a error message:
"Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403".

The problem not solved modifing the "httpd-xampp.conf" and the "httpd-vhosts.conf" files, as suggested in other topics.

Nothing to do, if I link (symlink) home/schede in /opt/lampp/htdocs: same error 403, only for home/schede. Nothing changing the permissions of the folder /home/schede.

In all previous installations all right with the new localhost.

Any idea?

Thak you
Duns

duns wrote:Nothing changing the permissions of the folder /home/schede.

You also have to change permission for parent folder /home, not only /home/schede.

Nothing, also changing the permissions for the parent directory

What exactly did you change in the apache config files?
Please execute this command:

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ls -la /home/

and post the output here

Here:
"[root@localhost ~]# ls -la /home/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 francesco francesco 4096 Jul 17 20:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 21 12:34 ../
drwx------ 38 francesco francesco 4096 Jul 21 13:37 francesco/
drwxr-xr-x 21 giardino giardino 4096 Nov 27 2014 giardino/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 25 2012 mysql/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 17 20:57 schede -> /home/francesco/schede/"

Thank you

duns wrote:drwx------ 38 francesco francesco 4096 Jul 21 13:37 francesco/

You said, you changed permissons for your /home/schede. This is very strange, because there is no folder /home/schede, only a folder /home/francesco/schede, but /home/francesco already does not have sufficient rights for Apache. You only put a symbolic link from /home/francesco/schede to /home/schede, but this is still not a folder, only a symbolic link.

You have to grant ALL (i.e. "chmod 0777") rights to

/home
/home/francesco
/home/francesco/schede

otherwise Apache cannot read that folder(s).

Finally you have to apply "Options FollowSymLinks" to the Apache Configuration for the corresponding VirtualHost / DocumentRoot.

Thank you for your answer, buit i am quite handycap with the terminals. Cloud you kindly tell me exactly what code i have to write?
Thank you
Duns

Open a terminal and enter the following commands

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sudo chmod 0777 /home

and

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sudo chmod 0777 /home/francesco

and

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sudo chmod 0777 /home/francesco/schede

You will be prompted for a pasword, enter your own password.

Solved!!! Thank you
Duns