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

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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.

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5 Answers

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

user_68440

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 webmaster@localhost.com
 DocumentRoot "C:/web/project1"
 ServerName project1.localhost
 <Directory "C:/web/project1">
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

to this

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost.com
 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

user_54945500
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