XAMPP on Windows - Permission Problems?

Question

Trying to set up Apache/PHP/MySQL development on my Vista laptop, so I thought XAMPP would be a quick and easy solution.

I have this vhost:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
    DocumentRoot C:\Development\xxx-projects\xxxx\web
    ServerName miai.local
</VirtualHost>

in httpd.conf I am including it

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

but I'm always getting this error when I visit miai.local:

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If I set up the virtualhost to read from C:\xampp\htdocs\xxxx\web instead of my C:\Development\xxx-projects\xxxx\web folder, it works fine.

It's like some kind of permission problem ... only on Windows. And I've no idea how ownership works on windows!

Any ideas?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '09 at 19:57

Ah, the answer was my virtualhost was bad. Needed a directory, uh ... directive..:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
    DocumentRoot C:\Development\xxx-projects\xxxx\web
    ServerName miai.local
    <Directory C:\Development\xxx-projects\xxxx\web>
        Order Deny,Allow
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 11 '17 at 10:54

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@furnace: you might also find it useful to separate the virtual server's logs from the default location:

ErrorLog C:\Development\xxx-projects\xxxx\web\logs\error.log
CustomLog C:\Development\xxx-projects\xxxx\web\logs\access.log combined

Also, you probably realise this, but you could put the VirtualHost directive directly into httpd.conf rather than including it from a separate file.

edited Jan 11 '17 at 10:54

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 23 '09 at 01:49

There is an alternate called WAMP, I recollect it worked better for me when I tried setting things up.
There is also a Portable edition that works as well.

Things that are nearby but do not directly compare with XAMPP/WAMP.

If you have good bandwidth, there is also the relatively new Opera Unite!
I also liked the FreeSSHd

XAMPP on Windows - Permission Problems?

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