I just installed a fresh XAMPP on OSX. Apache runs and I can see the splash page.
I open the httpd.conf and I set both places that point to htdocs to someplace else, which results in Apache showing an "Access Forbidden!" message.
I plugged my directory here:
<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs">
and here:
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"
I have set the permissions to 777 for everything including the enclosing directory, but to no avail. I've also set the owner to nobody, just like htdocs.
Strangely, I just did this whole thing with MAMP and had no problems serving that directory, but it was slow.
2 Answers
This solutions works for me
<Directory />
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
Ref:
It is not enough to set the permissions to 777 for the DocumentRoot and its enclosing directory. Permissions must be 777 (or something lesser, but I don't know what) for all directories from / down to the DocumentRoot. That's why this guy learned to put his vhost directories in his user directories: while it's more flexible than that, the point is the same.
