Solved 403: Forbidden when visiting localhost. Using ports 80,443,3308 (the later to handle conflict with MySQL Server installation) Windows 10, XAMPP 7.4.1, Apache 2.4.x My web files are in a separate folder.
httpd.conf - look for these lines and set it up where you have your files, mine is web folder.
DocumentRoot "C:/web"
<Directory "C:/web">
Changed these 2 lines.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "C:/web/project1"
ServerName project1.localhost
<Directory "C:/web/project1">
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
to this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "C:/web/project1"
ServerName project1.localhost
<Directory "C:/web/project1">
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Add your details in your hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 project1.localhost
Stop start XAMPP, and click Apache admin (or localhost) and the wonderful XAMPP dashboard now displays! And visit your project at project1.localhost