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

Question

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.

score 64 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '12 at 15:41

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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

answered Sep 22 '12 at 15:41

Michael Klink

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+1 This should be the correct answer. saved me a lot of headache. – Tomer Jun 25 '13 at 18:18
Great. You helped me very much. – Alexey Sidash Sep 22 '13 at 17:34
In my case I still need `Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews` – krivar Mar 26 '14 at 11:00
Just to clarify, this is in response to @cloudwhale's answer, yes? [link](http://stackoverflow.com/a/12519708/1493346) – Doug McLean May 01 '15 at 10:07
I am using xampp in Windows server 2012, 'require all granted' written but still same issue. – 151291 Jun 14 '18 at 00:32
I was experiencing the same problem. I have an external hard drive in my Windows 10 system and that has the path F. While I tried to create a virtualhost with DocumentRoot "F:/htdocs", I was getting same error. This solution solve my problem. – Hasanuzzaman Sattar Sep 26 '20 at 09:32

score 50 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 18 '08 at 12:00

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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

answered Sep 18 '08 at 12:00

Mark Embling

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For me, this file I had to modify was C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf – Paul Ostrowski May 06 '12 at 21:57
@Moss - um, yes it does. If you're having difficulty then it is likely there is another problem - perhaps your configuration isn't being read or NTFS permissions are preventing Apache reading it. Perhaps its wise to post your own question if things still don't work for you...? – Mark Embling Jun 02 '12 at 17:28
Yeah, I did post my own question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859271/wampserver-403-on-named-virtual-hosts-outside-of-www. I set permissions to Full Control for Authenticated Users, SYSTEM, Administrators, on every folder from the site up to the drive. What else can be done? – Moss Jun 03 '12 at 03:53

score 27 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 20 '12 at 19:36

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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>

answered Sep 20 '12 at 19:36

cloudwhale

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(y) great! Add into vhosts.conf file – NaeN Sep 24 '15 at 09:29
Apache 2.4 + Windows 10 + XAMPP was giving me the same error (403 forbidden). Most of the answers give "Require all granted" & that was not working. Adding "Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCG" worked ! Thanks ! – Deepak Thomas Sep 14 '19 at 09:11

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 05 '14 at 15:32

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 webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    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 webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
    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

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 24 '20 at 16:16

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

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

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