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apachexampphttp-status-code-403
AliC
AliC

Reputation: 79

403 error on XAMPP change document root

I have installed XAMPP on Linux Mint. Got it running OK, then I wanted to change the htdocs folder location to another partition.

I made these changes to httpd.conf:

DocumentRoot "/media/alex/776FAD4B34B3CF0A/XAMPP htdocs"
<Directory "/media/alex/776FAD4B34B3CF0A/XAMPP htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

and also did:

cd /media/alex/776FAD4B34B3CF0A
sudo chmod -R 777 "XAMPP htdocs"

but I keep getting a 403 error, despite restarting Apache.

Any suggestions please! Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1305

Answers (1)

Hello Fishy
Hello Fishy

Reputation: 739

This looks pretty much exactly like your problem, doesn't it? :)

What's probably missing is this (assumung that your Apache is running under www-data):

sudo adduser <username> www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/alex/776FAD4B34B3CF0A
sudo chmod -R g+rw /media/alex/776FAD4B34B3CF0A

Eventually that won't be enough though and you gotta go with

chown -R www-data:www-data

But that's more like your last resort...

Upvotes: 1

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