I'm running windows 7 and recently installed XAMPP to build a dev environment. I'm not great with the server side of things so I'm having some problems setting up an alias for a project.
So far XAMPP is running and if I go to localhost I get the XAMPP welcome page. I created an "alias" folder in my "conf" folder of my apache install. In there I added dev.conf with the following content:
<Directory "C:\Users\my_user\My%20Documents\Aptana%20Studio%203%20Workspace\project">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
Alias /dev "C:\Users\my_user\My%20Documents\Aptana%20Studio%203%20Workspace\project"
But then when I go to "localhost/dev" I get:
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
I tried googling and I found other similar questions on SO but I can't seem to figure it out. Some say that you have to tell it to have permissions but in my conf file I specified to allow it from 127.0.0.1. Maybe this is because my path has spaces in it (though some googling told me %20 work). I had managed to create one to a different folder and copy pasted the working one and changed the alias and path and it broke so it this tells me it probably has something to do with either.
I looked in my log folder and found the following line:
[Tue Dec 13 14:59:20 2011] [error] [client ::1] client denied by server configuration: C:/Users/my_user/My%20Documents
I'm not sure if it cuts because error messages can only be of a certain length but that's definitely not the path I added in the dev.conf file, I'm hoping this can make this a bit clearer for some because I am getting pretty frustrated and I'm not sure what to try anymore.
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I'm using XAMPP with Apache2.4, I had this same issue. I wanted to leave the default xampp/htdocs folder in place, be able to access it from locahost and have a Virtual Host to point to my dev area...
The full contents of my C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\http-vhosts.conf file is below...
# Virtual Hosts
#
# Required modules: mod_log_config
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
##NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ##ServerName or ##ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
##<VirtualHost *:80>
##ServerAdmin [email protected]
##DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host.example.com"
##ServerName dummy-host.example.com
##ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error.log"
##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access.log" common
##</VirtualHost>
##<VirtualHost *:80>
##ServerAdmin [email protected]
##DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host2.example.com"
##ServerName dummy-host2.example.com
##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
##</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\nick\static"
ServerName dev.middleweek.co.uk
<Directory "C:\nick\static">
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I then updated my C:\windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file like this...
# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 dev.middleweek.co.uk
127.0.0.1 localhost
Restart your machine for good measure, open the XAMPP Control Panel and start Apache.
Now open your custom domain in your browser, in the above example, it'll be http://dev.middleweek.co.uk
Hope that helps someone!
And if you want to be able to view directory listings under your new Virtual host, then edit your VirtualHost block in C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\http-vhosts.conf to include "Options Indexes" like this...
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\nick\static"
ServerName dev.middleweek.co.uk
<Directory "C:\nick\static">
Allow from all
Require all granted
Options Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Cheers, Nick
try this
sudo chmod -R 0777 /opt/lampp/htdocs/testproject
I just found the same issue with Aliases on a Windows install of Xampp.
To solve the 403 error:
<Directory "C:/Your/Directory/With/No/Trailing/Slash">
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /dev "C:/Your/Directory/With/No/Trailing/Slash"
The default Xampp set up should be fine with just this. Some people have experienced issues with a deny placed on the root directory so flipping out the directory tag to:
<Directory "C:/Your/Directory/With/No/Trailing/Slash">
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
Would help with this but the current version of Xampp (v1.8.1 at the time of writing) doesn't require it.
As for op's issue with port 80 Xampp includes a handy Netstat button to discover what's using your ports. Fire that off and fix the conflict, I imagine it could have been IIS but can't be sure.
This question is old and although you managed to make it work but I feel it would be helpful if I make clear some of points you have raised here.
First about directory name having spaces. I have been playing with apache2 configuration files and I have discovered that, if the directory name has space then enclose it in double quotes and all problems disappear. For example...
NameVirtualHost local.webapp.org
<VirtualHost local.webapp.org:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "E:/Project/my php webapp"
ServerName local.webapp.org
</VirtualHost>
Note the way DocumentRoot line is written.
Second is about Access forbidden from xampp. I found that default xampp configuration (..path to xampp/apache/httpd.conf) has a section that looks like the following.
<Directory>
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>
Change it and make it look like below. Save the file restart apache from xampp and that solves the problem.
<Directory>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride none
Require all granted
</Directory>
If you have installed a module on Xampp (on Linux) via Bitnami and changed chown settings, make sure that the /opt/lampp/apps/<app>/htdocs and tmp usergroup is daemon with all other sibling files and folders chowned to the user you installed as, e.g. cd /opt/lampp/apps/<app>, sudo chown -R root:root ., followed by sudo chown -R root:daemon htdocs tmp.
Apache 2.4 virtual hosts hack
1.In http.conf specify the ports , below “Listen”
Listen 80
Listen 4000
Listen 7000
Listen 9000
In httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Vikas/Documents/NetBeansProjects/slider_website_hitesh/public_html"
ServerName hitesh_web.dev
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
<Directory "C:/Users/Vikas/Documents/NetBeansProjects/slider_website_hitesh/public_html">
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "E:/dabkick_git/DabKickWebsite"
ServerName www.my_mobile.dev
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
<Directory "E:/dabkick_git/DabKickWebsite">
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
In hosts.ics file of windows os “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host.ics”
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 hitesh_web.dev
127.0.0.1 www.my_mobile.dev
127.0.0.1 demo.multisite.dev
4.now type your “domain names” in the browser it will ping the particular folder specified in the documentRoot path
5.if you want to access those files in a particular port then replace 80 in httpd-vhosts.conf with port numbers like below and restart apache
<VirtualHost *:4000>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Vikas/Documents/NetBeansProjects/slider_website_hitesh/public_html"
ServerName hitesh_web.dev
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
<Directory "C:/Users/Vikas/Documents/NetBeansProjects/slider_website_hitesh/public_html">
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:7000>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "E:/dabkick_git/DabKickWebsite"
ServerName www.dabkick_mobile.dev
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
<Directory "E:/dabkick_git/DabKickWebsite">
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Note: for port number given virtual hosts you have to ping in browser like “http://hitesh_web.dev:4000/” or “http://www.dabkick_mobile.dev:7000/”
6.After doing all those changes you have to save the files and restart apache respectively.
Source: Stackoverflow.com