xampplite and wordpress install, access forbidden 403

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xampplite and wordpress install, access forbidden 403

Postby senlin » 09. April 2009 11:49

For th past 24 hrs I have been trying to install xampplite (also tried xampp, wamp and others) via this tutorial http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

Everything works until the very last step: go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

Then I get the following error:
"Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
localhost
04/09/09 12:20:41
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8"

I have searched a plethora of forums and articles, but I cannot get it to work :(

Does anybody have a working solution?

I'm on Windows XP Pro SP 3
Installed latest version of xampplite
trying to install WordPress 2.7.1
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Re: xampplite and wordpress install, access forbidden 403

Postby senlin » 09. April 2009 16:09

BUMP
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Re: xampplite and wordpress install, access forbidden 403

Postby Sharley » 09. April 2009 23:36

Check out the error log at the date and time you attempt to access your URI to see if there is more of a clue:
\apache\logs\error.log

BTW a full installation of XAMPP is preferred as some are having issues with the last 1.7.0 lite release.

Paste back the [error] messages if you can't work them out.

Often a 403 error is caused by a .htaccess file but may not be the case this time but the log file may help to fathom this out.
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