Using XAMPP, Error 403 Access Forbidden

Update (FOUND A WORKING SOLUTION):

 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public ServerName testproject <Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I had tried re-installing, and no luck. I am using XAMPP 1.7.3, Windows 7 64bit.

Followed instructions from: 403 Forbidden Error when trying to view localhost on Apache

[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Server built: Nov 11 2009 14:29:03
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:54 2010] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4960
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:58 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:58 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Child process is running
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting 150 worker threads.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sat Oct 16 16:09:59 2010] [notice] Child 4960: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sat Oct 16 16:10:30 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/projects/test/
[Sat Oct 16 16:10:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/projects/test/favicon.ico

vhosts file:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80> ##ServerAdmin DocumentRoot "C:/projects/test" ServerName test ##ServerAlias ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log" ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

hosts:

# Virtual host
127.0.0.1 test

4 Answers

(FOUND A WORKING SOLUTION):

 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public ServerName testproject <Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This worked for me with Ubuntu 11.10 and version 1.7.7 in httpd.conf i've added the # in the directory to have it work with vhosts. My vhosts were located outside of the root folder...

And change user and group from nobody to your username:

User nobody
Group nobody
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
</Directory>

In the apache folder, go to extra and then open file httpd-xamp.conf.

Edit the following lines:

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))"> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/8 ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Change the above configuration like below:

<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))"> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from all ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Now restart XAMPP, it will work.

Here is an update for newer versions of XAMMP. The syntax has changed a little. Note the line: Require all granted in the Directory block.

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public ServerName testproject <Directory "D:/srv/xampp/projects/testproject/public"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>
</VirtualHost>