Apache gives me 403 Access Forbidden when DocumentRoot points to two different drives

55
votes

I am getting an 403 access forbidden when attempting to open a page under a vhost where the document root is sitting on a different drive than where apache is sitting. I installed using the apachefriends release. This is my httpd-vhosts.conf file: 


NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1


<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
  ServerName foo.localhost
  DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/foo/public"
</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
  ServerName bar.localhost
  DocumentRoot "F:/bar/public"
</VirtualHost>

When opening bar.localhost in my browser, Apache is giving me 403 Access Forbidden. I tried setting lots of different access rights, even full rights to everyone, but nothing I tried helped.

Edit: Thanks! For future reference, add 'Options indexes' within to show directory indexes.

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windowsapachevirtualhosthttp-status-code-403

5 Answers

63
votes

You did not need

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted

the only thing what you need is...

Require all granted

...inside the directory section.

See Apache 2.4 upgrading side:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html

50
votes

Somewhere, you need to tell Apache that people are allowed to see contents of this directory.

<Directory "F:/bar/public">
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from All
    # Any other directory-specific stuff
</Directory>

More info

27
votes

For Apache 2.4.2: I was getting 403: Forbidden continuously when I was trying to access WAMP on my Windows 7 desktop from my iPhone on WiFi. On one blog, I found the solution - add Require all granted after Allow all in the <Directory> section. So this is how my <Directory> section looks like inside <VirtualHost>

<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
</Directory>
0
votes

I have fixed it with removing below code from

C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/docs/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:/Apache24/docs/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>

And added 

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
    ServerName localhost
    ErrorLog "logs/localhost-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

And it has worked like charm

0
votes

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