Adding VirtualHost fails Access Forbidden Error 403 XAMPP Windows 7

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I ve got a XAMPP installation running on Windows 7   As soon as I add a VirtualHost to httpd-vhosts conf  BOTH the  regular  http   localhost AND the new dropbox local  aren t working   This is what I added to my httpd-vhosts conf    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin postmaster dummy-host localhost     DocumentRoot  E  Documenten Dropbox Dropbox dummy-htdocs      ServerName dropbox local     ServerAlias www dropbox local     ErrorLog  logs dropbox local-error log      CustomLog  logs dropbox local-access log  combined  lt  VirtualHost gt    So I looked up my dropbox local-error log for any information    Thu Feb 02 10 41 57 2012   error   client 127 0 0 1  client denied by server configuration  E  Documenten Dropbox Dropbox dummy-htdocs    This error seems to be solved by adding    lt directory  E  Documenten Dropbox Dropbox dummy-htdocs  gt       Allow from all  lt  directory gt    But now I get this error in dropbox local-error log     Thu Feb 02 10 45 56 2012   error   client   1  Directory index forbidden by Options directive  E  Documenten Dropbox Dropbox dummy-htdocs    Furthermore when I try to access http   localhost  I dont get any error in the regular error log  although I get the error 403 when I try to access it   Can anybody help    It s driving me mad  S  EDIT  Also in httpd conf there is the following  I ve seen it mentioned multiple times  so before anyone says it     lt IfModule dir module gt      DirectoryIndex index php index pl index cgi index asp index shtml index html index htm                      default php default pl default cgi default asp default shtml default html default htm                      home php home pl home cgi home asp home shtml home html home htm  lt  IfModule gt

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I m using XAMPP 1 6 7 on Windows 7  This article worked for me   I added the following lines in the file httpd-vhosts conf at C  xampp apache conf extra  I had also uncommented the line   NameVirtualHost   80   lt VirtualHost mysite dev 80 gt      DocumentRoot  C  xampp htdocs mysite      ServerName mysite dev     ServerAlias mysite dev      lt Directory  C  xampp htdocs mysite  gt          Order allow deny         Allow from all      lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    After restarting the apache  it were still not working  Then I had to follow the step 9 mentioned in the article by editing the file C  Windows System32 drivers etc hosts     localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself       127 0 0 1       localhost        1             localhost      127 0 0 1       mysite dev     Then I got working http   mysite dev

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After so many changes and tries and answers  For  SOs  Windows 7   Windows 10 Xampp Version  Xampp or Xampp portable 7 1 18   7 3 7  control panel v3 2 4  Installers  win32-7 1 18-0-VC14-installer   xampp-windows-x64-7 3 7-0-VC15-installer   Do not edit other files like httpd-xampp  Stop Apache  Open httpd-vhosts conf located in   your xampp directory   apache conf extra   your XAMPP directory might be by default  C  xampp htdocs   Remove hash before the following line  aprox  line 20   NameVirtualHost   80  this might be optional   Add the following virtual hosts at the end of the file  considering your directories paths    127 0 0 1  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  quot C  xampp htdocs quot      ServerName localhost     ErrorLog  quot logs localhost-error log quot      CustomLog  quot logs localhost-access log quot  common  lt  VirtualHost gt     127 0 0 2  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  quot F  myapp htdocs  quot      ServerName test1 localhost     ServerAlias www test1 localhost     ErrorLog  quot logs myapp-error log quot      CustomLog  quot logs myapp-access log quot  common      lt Directory   quot F  myapp htdocs  quot  gt           Options All   Deprecated          AllowOverride All   Deprecated         Require all granted        lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    Edit  with admin access  your host file  located at Windows System32 drivers etc  but with the following tip  only one loopback ip for every domain  127 0 0 1 localhost 127 0 0 2 test1 localhost 127 0 0 2 www test1 localhost    For every instance  repeat the second block  the first one is the main block only for  quot default quot  purposes

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For me  also XAMPP on Windows 7   this is what worked    lt Directory  C  projects myfolder htdocs  gt      AllowOverride All    Require all granted    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks  lt  Directory gt      It is this line that would cause the 403   Order allow deny

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I am using xampp 1 7 3  Using inspiration from here  xampp 1 7 3 upgrade broken virtual hosts access forbidden  INSTEAD OF add  lt Directory gt      lt  Directory gt  in httpd-vhosts conf  I add it in httpd conf right after  lt Directory  D  xampplite cgi-bin  gt      lt  Directory gt    Here is what I add in httpd conf    lt Directory  D  CofeeShop  gt      AllowOverride All     Options  All     Order allow deny     Allow from all  lt  Directory gt    And here is what I add in httpd-vhosts conf   lt VirtualHost   8001 gt      ServerAdmin postmaster dummy-host2 localhost     DocumentRoot  D  CofeeShop      ServerName localhost 8001  lt  VirtualHost gt    I also add Listen 8001 in httpd conf to complete my setting   Hope it helps

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Okay  This is what I did now and it s solved   My httpd-vhosts conf looks like this now    lt VirtualHost dropbox local 80 gt      DocumentRoot  E  Documenten Dropbox Dropbox dummy-htdocs      ServerName dropbox local     ErrorLog  logs dropbox local-error log      CustomLog  logs dropbox local-access log  combined      lt Directory  E  Documenten Dropbox Dropbox dummy-htdocs  gt            AllowOverride All        Deprecated           Order Allow Deny         Deprecated           Allow from all           Deprecated            --New way of doing it         Require all granted          lt  Directory gt   lt  VirtualHost gt    First  I saw that it s necessary to have set the  lt Directory xx xx gt  options  So I put the  lt Directory  gt        lt  Directory gt -part INSIDE the  lt VirtualHost  gt        lt  VirtualHost gt    After that  I added AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes to the  lt Directory gt  options   Now http   localhost also points to the dropbox-virtualhost  So I added dropbox local to  lt VirtualHost   80 gt  which makes it as  lt VirtualHost dropbox local 80 gt   FINALLY it works  D   I m a happy man         I hope someone else can use this information

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Above suggestions didn t worked for me  I got it running on my windows  using inspiration from http   butlerccwebdev net support testingserver vhosts-setup-win html  For Http inside httpd-vhosts conf   lt Directory  D  Projects  gt         AllowOverride All Require all granted  lt  Directory gt     Letzgrow  lt VirtualHost   80 gt  DocumentRoot  D  Projects letzgrow  ServerName letz dev ServerAlias letz dev      lt  VirtualHost gt    For using Https  Open SSL  inside httpd-ssl conf   lt Directory  D  Projects  gt         AllowOverride All Require all granted  lt  Directory gt     Letzgrow  lt VirtualHost   443 gt  DocumentRoot  D  Projects letzgrow  ServerName letz dev ServerAlias letz dev      lt  VirtualHost gt    Hope it helps someone

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For many it s a permission issue  but for me it turns out the error was brought about by a mistake in the form I was trying to submit  To be specific i had accidentally put a  greater than  sign after the value of  action   So I would suggest you take a second look at your code

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For me worked when I changed  directory  content into this    lt Directory    YourLocation   gt  Options All AllowOverride All Require all granted    lt  Directory gt

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Thank you  that worked  But I replaced this  AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes   with that  AllowOverride All   Otherwise  the  htaccess didn t work  I got problems with the RewriteEngine and the error message  RewriteEngine not allowed here

[apache] Adding VirtualHost fails: Access Forbidden Error 403 (XAMPP) (Windows 7)

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