How to Change DocumentRoot?

[atomicnicholas]

Hi all,

When I change DocumentRoot (from httpd.conf) to my chosen directory, XAMPP runs without incident, but I get a "403 Forbidden" error (or other types of errors when I try different things out with it) when I run it from a browser (Safari or Firefox). I've changed permissions accordingly. The directory and files (index.html, etc.) are located in the directory I changed to. But it just won't run.

Can anyone please help? Is there a restriction that we're supposed to use a documentroot inside the xampp folder?

Here's the change I made:

FROM:

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DocumentRoot "/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs"

# ... and ...

<Directory "Applications/xampp/xamppfiiles/htdocs">


TO:

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DocumentRoot "/Users/mycomputername/Web/MyApplications"

# ... and ...

<Directory "/Users/mycomputername/Web/MyApplications">


Just a note that the default ~/htdocs works fine, but the changed one does not. This is strange because I've done this successfully in Windows and Linux but can't get it to run with a different DocumentRoot in MacOSX (Tiger).

Thank you.

[atomicnicholas]

Anyone have an idea what's wrong? And what to do to fix this?

Thanks!

[TShirt]

It should work!

If you create a page in /Users/mycomputername/Web/MyApplications (let's say Foo.html) you should be able to open it with:

http://localhost/Foo.html

If you want xampp stuff you have to create 2 soft links in MyApplications:

ln -s /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/index.html index.html
ln -s /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp xampp

Then open as usual:

http://localhost


Bye...