Hello my Friend out there.
Can anyone advised me on what to do. I just install fresh Xampp in my Mac machine, the local host is running and after starting all the program Aparche, MySQl and PHP, my local host (http://localhost/xampp) displays the Xampp page, but I am trying to install Joomla template to use and was not going through, it was not displaying in my browser, I have already downloaded Joomla (Joomla_1.6-Beta13-Full_Package.zip), I have pasted it in my Application/Xampp/htdocs/ - unzipped it and i have rename it to (westsite1).
But to my greatest surprised, the template did not display, there I cannot install the joomla template.
When i go to my browser and typed (localhost/westsite1), it give me error below:
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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
Mon Nov 22 05:47:55 2010
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
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Please can anyone help me and tell me what to do, or am I doing something wrong?, cos am new to using xampp and joomla on Mac.
Thanks and God richly bless you all as you put me through, and also new to this forum.