Setting up and problem with 403 error

[mirekstrnad1]

I am running on latest OS X Mavericks and latest XAMPP. I am having problems with making the xampp run.

My vhosts record look like this:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot "/Users/miroslavstrnad/Dropbox/Dokumenty/My Web Sites/vývoj/mirekstrnad.eu"
    ServerName mirekstrnad.dev
    ServerAlias *.mirekstrnad.dev
    ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common
<Directory "/Users/miroslavstrnad/Dropbox/Dokumenty/My Web Sites/vývoj/mirekstrnad.eu">
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
   Require all granted
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>


I also have the record in etc/hosts, but I am getting the Error 403 all the time.

What is wrong?

[Nobbie]

/Users/miroslavstrnad/Dropbox/Dokumenty/My Web Sites/vývoj/mirekstrnad.eu

is not accessible for the User which executes Apache.

[mirekstrnad1]

how to make it?

[Nobbie]

Read your OSX Manual and/or ask Apple or in an OSX forum, this question is not related to Xampp.

[mirekstrnad1]

Oh come on, where is the spirit of the community? I expected more friendly environment

[Nobbie]

Sorry, this is not an OSX community. I dont know how to change file permissions in your "explorer" (i even dont know, if you are using kind of "explorer" or whatelse).

I can tell you, that file permissions can also be set via chmod command in a terminal, but this requires basic knowledge how file permissions are working under OSX (i.e. any unix like system).

You may try

sudo chmod 0777 /foldername

in a terminal, but do you really have the slightest idea, what this command does? I really would like you to read some documentation and learn, how your operating system is working. It is never a good idea simply to provide a cryptic looking solution, as it does not help you in similar cases (and possibly it does not solve your problem immediately, maybe chmod must be run with some further options).

[petruza]

Miroslav, it's possible that some folder in the path /Users/miroslavstrnad/Dropbox/Dokumenty/My Web Sites/vývoj/mirekstrnad.eu, most likely Dropbox is set so only you have read permission, that's the idea in a user's home folder, I had the same issue with Desktop.

Try this:
Locate the httpd.conf, it should be at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/
Locate the following lines and change denied for granted so it looks like this:

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<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all granted
</Directory>


If that doesn't help, try also to set up a virtual host outside the /Users folder, for example in /test

Hope this helps.

[Altrea]

Try this:
Locate the httpd.conf, it should be at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/
Locate the following lines and change denied for granted so it looks like this:

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<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all granted
</Directory>


Really really really (!!!) bad idea to overwrite the default behavior to allow everything.
This is a huge security issue !!!